ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,577, issued on March 17, was assigned to DIOSNA DIERKS & SOHNE GMBH.
"Kneading machine for food doughs with sealing of kneading tools" was invented by Hashem Ghani (Osnabruck, Germany) and Stefan Bensmann (Osnabruck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kneading machine for food doughs includes a kneading bowl, one or more tool shafts rotatably mounted in a housing, a kneading tool attachable to the tool shaft and insertable into the kneading bowl, and a kneading space, each tool shaft being assigned a seal carrier fixed to the housing and which carries a seal arrangement to seal the tool shaft with respect to the seal carrier, ...