ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,373, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Olbrich GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for processing shear sensitive coating compositions" was invented by Ingo Volmering (Bocholt, Germany), Fabian Schindler (Recklinghausen, Germany) and Frans Te Welscher (Bocholt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for processing shear-sensitive coating compounds (100), with a transfer roller (1) and a doctor blade (2), in particular a comma doctor blade, which are spaced apart from one another to form a coating nip (3), the device further having an outlet nozzle (4) for dosing a coating compound (100), th...