US Patent Issued to Vomar Industries on June 30 for "Supply tank for inflammable gas with protective cap" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,221, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vomar Industries Inc. (La Salle, Canada).

"Supply tank for inflammable gas with protective cap" was invented by Marcel Joseph Andre Vouriot (La Salle, Canada), Robert Amborsky (Winnipeg, Canada), Patrick Badiou (Sanford, Canada) and Sean Oosterveen (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propane tank with a valve passage containing a valve has a protection cap with a projecting pin which extends into the passage adjacent the valve to provide a secondary seal. The projecting pin is defined by an annular sleeve surrounding a hollow interior extending up to the upper wall where the slee...