US Patent Issued to Herrenknecht on Oct. 6 for "Device for emptying conveying buckets during the sinking of shafts" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,693, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Herrenknecht AG (Schwanau, Germany).

"Device for emptying conveying buckets during the sinking of shafts" was invented by Patrick Rennkamp (Lahr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for emptying a conveying bucket of rock/soil loosened during the sinking of a shaft with a chute (20) for the rock/soil (400) emptied from the conveying bucket (200, 200'), which can be moved linearly between a conveying bucket transport position and a conveying bucket emptying position by means of an actuator. A receiving element (30) for the conveying bucket (200, 200') is provid...