ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,788, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TPR Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TPR INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Sagae, Japan).
"Drip prevention device for pressurized pouring furnace" was invented by Atsushi Igarashi (Sagae, Japan), Shin Moriyama (Sagae, Japan) and Mizuki Yamashita (Sagae, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drip prevention device for a pressurized pouring furnace according to the present disclosure is a device 10 that prevents dripping of molten metal from a molten metal outlet of the pressurized pouring furnace The drip prevention device 10 includes: a stopper 20 that brings a lower end thereof into contact with the outlet so as to blo...