US Patent Issued to SAS GLOBAL on May 19 for "Conical fuel particulate distributor for coal supply conduit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,329, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAS GLOBAL Corp. (Warren, Mich.).

"Conical fuel particulate distributor for coal supply conduit" was invented by David Allen Billings Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Justin James-Paul Bennett (Novi, Mich.) and Kevin Raymond Kleist (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conical cylindrical distributor for particulate coal being fed from a mill/pulverizer to a combustion chamber has concentric, vaned flow channels terminating in dentillated plated extending partially across the flow paths directly at the outlet ends thereof to create turbulence and particle impact to better supply the combustion...