US Patent Issued to Valmet Technologies on March 17 for "Debarking drum, method and system for debarking of wood" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,552, issued on March 17, was assigned to Valmet Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Debarking drum, method and system for debarking of wood" was invented by Tommi Honkanen (Pori, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A debarking drum (1) for the debarking of wood (2) has an essentially horizontal cylindrical drum (10) supported to revolve around its longitudinal axis. The drum has a first end (12) and a second end (14) with an inner surface with inwardly projecting longitudinally extending debarking iron sections (16). Bark openings or slots (20) extend through the drum inner surface (18) and multiple rigid studs (22) protrude inwar...