US Patent Issued to Electricite de France on July 7 for "Device for supporting and holding the gate of a wedge valve during a maintenance operation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,401, issued on July 7, was assigned to Electricite de France (Paris).

"Device for supporting and holding the gate of a wedge valve during a maintenance operation" was invented by Eric Massot (Chassieu, France) and Antonio Dinis De Araujo (Four, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (D) for supporting and holding the gate of a valve during a maintenance operation. It comprises two identical tools (8), each comprising a plate (80) in the form of a half-disc delimited by a generally rectilinear edge (800) and a semi-circular edge (801), the upper surface (802) of which plate (80) has a first radius, whil...