US Patent Issued to Unibloc Hygienic Technologies US on March 31 for "Rotary pump with rotor bearing cap" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,582, issued on March 31, was assigned to Unibloc Hygienic Technologies US LLC (Chicago).

"Rotary pump with rotor bearing cap" was invented by Carl Magnus Danielsson (S.W. Marietta, Ga.), James Richard Howell (Kennesaw, Ga.) and James Kyle Lovett (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lobe pumps have bearing discs or caps which can be located at least partially in at least one of cover plates and rotors, if not both to provide at least thrust bearings to space the rotors from the cover plates while facilitating the possibility of clean in place operations. Many embodiments have bearing discs on the rotors which do not restrict ...