B29C 31/042
Using dispensing heads
Official title: {using dispensing heads, e.g. extruders, placed over or apart from the moulds (positioning extruded preforms on conveyors B29C31/085)}
B29C31/042 (Using dispensing heads) appears on 351 US grants and 330 published applications in this corpus.
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