US Patent Issued to Metso Finland on Sept. 29 for "Grate plate for a pulp lifter of a grinding mill" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,551, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Metso Finland Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Grate plate for a pulp lifter of a grinding mill" was invented by Jakub Vyoral (Zlin, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grate plate for use with a pulp lifter at a discharge end of a grinding mill. The grate plate has a leading side edge and a trailing side edge that have complementary shapes so that a series of grate plates can be mounted to the pulp lifter in a circular or annular array. The grate plate further includes one or more sections of lifter bars arranged so that the lifter bar sections on a number of adjacent grate plates complemen...