US Patent Issued to HERBERT KANNEGIESSER on Sept. 8 for "Method and device for the wet treatment, in particular the washing and/or spinning, of laundry batches consisting of a plurality of laundry items" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,476, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HERBERT KANNEGIESSER GMBH (Vlotho, Germany).

"Method and device for the wet treatment, in particular the washing and/or spinning, of laundry batches consisting of a plurality of laundry items" was invented by Wilhelm Bringewatt (Lubbecke, Germany) and Engelbert Heinz (Vlotho, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for the wet treatment of laundry batches provides to load the drum in a plurality of steps. To this end, the laundry batch is divided into partial batches which are gradually loaded into the drum. In particular, the drum is driven in rotation between successive par...