ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,216, issued on Nov. 11.
"Apparatus for conveying and discharging bulk material or snow" was invented by Hermann Niederer (Scheibbs, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an apparatus for conveying and discharging bulk material or snow, comprising at least one conveying device which has a tubular, circumferentially partially open conveying housing (1) and the conveying direction of which extends substantially in the direction of the tube axis (5), and comprising at least one centrifugal ejector, adjoining the at least one conveying device in the conveying direction and having at least one centrifugal wheel (8), which has at least ...