ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,326, issued on May 26, was assigned to K-TRON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Sewell, N.J.).
"Gravimetric metering unit for flowable bulk material" was invented by Men Bernegger (Zurich), Rolf Lehmann (Ammerswil, Switzerland) and Urs Helfenstein (Seengen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gravimetric metering unit includes a metering device including a container for bulk material to be metered and a base unit with a horizontally arranged conveyor for the bulk material. The container and the base unit can be separated from each other for maintenance purposes. The metering unit also comprises a frame that is equipped with at least one sca...