US Patent Issued to Valmet Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Filter sector assembly of a disc filter" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,446, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Valmet Technologies Inc. (Espoo, Finland).

"Filter sector assembly of a disc filter" was invented by Janne Laakso (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter sector assembly for a disc filter, which disc filter has a fiber suspension containing bath and a core assembly adapted to rotate on a horizontal axis. The filter sector assemblies are rotatably supported with relation to the bath on the core assembly. The filter sector assemblies are spaced along the core assembly and supported on the core assembly. Each filter sector assembly (50) has two adjacent filter sectors (10A; 10B) ...