ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. RE50,509, issued on July 29, was assigned to INDUSTRIES SNOFLAKE INC. (Levis, Canada).
"Conveying assembly for snowmaking apparatus" was invented by Louis Handfield (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snow conveying assembly for use with a snow making machine includes an impeller for receiving snow from the snow making machine and accelerating the snow; and an ejector tube, which receives the snow from the impeller, further accelerates the snow and discharges the snow from the assembly. The ejector tube contains a venturi throat. Snow from the impeller is conveyed via a snow inlet tube into the ejector tube immediately upstream...