US Patent Issued to GEA Mechanical Equipment on April 21 for "Self-emptying separator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,720, issued on April 21, was assigned to GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH (Oelde, Germany).

"Self-emptying separator" was invented by Andreas Holscher (Ennigerloh, Germany) and Thomas Bathelt (Oelde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-emptying separator includes solids discharge openings each having a piston valve that is moveable moved into an opening position and into a closing position in a fluid-actuated manner. The emptying mechanism also has a control assembly assigned to the piston valve and controls the opening and closing movements of the latter. The control assembly also includes a control device and a metering dev...