US Patent Issued to Windmoller & Holscher on July 29 for "Transporting a film tube, blown film line and method for producing a film" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,732, issued on July 29, was assigned to Windmoller & Holscher KG (Lengerich, Germany).

"Transporting a film tube, blown film line and method for producing a film" was invented by Jens Althermeler (Lengerich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (10) for transporting a film tube (2) in a blown film line (1) along a transport direction, having a guiding unit (51) for guiding the film tube (2), a bottleneck (13.1) at which a width (2.3) of the film tube (2) can be reduced, a severing apparatus (20) having at least one severing element (21) for severing the film tube (2), wherein the guiding unit (51) ...