ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,921, issued on June 30, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenhem, Germany).
"Flow-optimized edge treatment" was invented by Uwe Joos (Konigsbronn, Germany), Daniel Gronych (Heidenheim, Germany), Wolfgang Ruf (Herbrechtingen, Germany), Tobias Henle (Ulm, Germany) and Michael Drescher (Kirchberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow body for a format control unit of a Fourdrinier wire machine for producing a web of fibrous material, includes: a flow dividing device which is configured for separating an edge strip from a fibrous stock suspension stream, in a region of a flow division the flow dividing device including a rou...