ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,848, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to 3con Anlagenbau GmbH (Ebbs, Austria).
"Cooling unit for cold air generation" was invented by Christian Mayr (Soll, Austria) and Daniel Gruber (Soll, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling unit for cold air generation, in particular for snow-making systems, has a mechanically operating de-icing device which comprises at least one rotary shaft (6), which extends between two tube layers (5) transversely to the refrigerant guide tubes and is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the refrigerant guide tubes (4), and a rotary drive for rotating the rotary shaft (6). The removal elemen...