US Patent Issued to FLOTTWEG on Sept. 22 for "Transverse disc of a centrifuge screw, and solid-bowl screw centrifuge" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,289, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FLOTTWEG SE (Vilsbiburg, Germany).

"Transverse disc of a centrifuge screw, and solid-bowl screw centrifuge" was invented by Michael Beywl (Bodenkirchen, Germany), Thomas Hasenecker (Eberspoint, Germany) and Lothar Frankel (Gerzen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a transverse disc (60) of a centrifuge screw (30) for stabilising a screw hub structure. According to the invention, at least one opening (70) is formed at least in some sections on at least 75% of all the imaginary circle lines (71) of the transverse disc (60) between the centre point (M) and the trans...