US Patent Issued to GEA WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GROUP on May 19 for "Separator insert, separator and method for exchanging a separator insert" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,699, issued on May 19, was assigned to GEA WESTFALIA SEPARATOR GROUP GmbH (Oelde, Germany).

"Separator insert, separator and method for exchanging a separator insert" was invented by Andreas Schulz (Beckum, Germany), Kai Helmrich (Drensteinfurt, Germany), Kathrin Quiter (Drensteinfurt, Germany), Rudiger Gohmann (Oelde, Germany), Jurg Burkart (Rudolfstetten, Switzerland) and Simon Stockli (Rehetobel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator includes a frame and a separator insert exchangeably disposed on the frame. The separator insert is designed to separate a flowable suspension into at least two flowable phases of diff...