US Patent Issued to Henkel on Nov. 4 for "Method and device for stripping a material residue from a metering nozzle" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,995, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Method and device for stripping a material residue from a metering nozzle" was invented by Mario Metzler (Lustenau, Austria) and Sven Kekeritz (Altusried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for stripping a material residue from a metering nozzle, wherein the metering nozzle with the material residue is guided past a stripping element such that the material residue comes into contact with the stripping element and is stripped from the metering nozzle, characterized in that the stripping element performs a closed ro...