US Patent Issued to Manvers Engineering on Aug. 25 for "Oil and fuel collector" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,951, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Manvers Engineering Ltd. (Barnsley, Great Britain).

"Oil and fuel collector" was invented by Christopher Ibbotson (Barnsley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a collector for machine fluids, comprising a mat having a perimeter wall upstanding therefrom, the mat and/or the wall comprising oleophilic material and the wall being water-permeable, so that water falling into the collector within the perimeter wall can escape therefrom, while the machine fluids are retained by said oleophilic material and wherein the collector comprises at least one composite component fo...