US Patent Issued to Texas Transland on Dec. 9 for "Sliding gatebox for the release of wet and dry material" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,997, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Texas Transland LLC (Wichita Falls, Texas).

"Sliding gatebox for the release of wet and dry material" was invented by Calvin Lee Kroes (Loveland, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gatebox for an aircraft comprises a hopper configured to contain a solid material or a liquid material in the gatebox, an opening within the hopper configured to allow a solid material in the hopper to be discharged from the gatebox, and a door mechanism with a door that is configured to operate in a first mode to release the solid material from the opening and a second mode to prevent the liquid material from esca...