US Patent Issued to z-werkzeugbau-gmbh on Oct. 7 for "Plastic injection tool for producing a closure cap, and method for producing a closure cap" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,416, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to z-werkzeugbau-gmbh (Dornbirn, Austria).

"Plastic injection tool for producing a closure cap, and method for producing a closure cap" was invented by Johannes Steurer (Langenegg, Austria), Franz Helth (Hohenems, Austria) and Erik Schneider (Koblach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic injection tool for producing a closure cap is divided into first and second mold halves that can be moved relative to one another and an injection nozzle is formed in the first mold half, and sliding jaw tool parts are formed in the second mold half, radially outside a central tool core, which can simult...