US Patent Issued to A. W. CHESTERTON on June 17 for "System and method for automatically energizing packing material with a packing loading assembly" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,836, issued on June 17, was assigned to A. W. CHESTERTON COMPANY (Groveland, Mass.).

"System and method for automatically energizing packing material with a packing loading assembly" was invented by Henri Vincent Azibert (Windham, N.H.), Robert James Powers (Salem, Mass.), Michael P. Grimanis (Wayland, Mass.) and Philip Michael Mahoney Jr. (Roslindale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for regulating an axial biasing force applied to a stacked set of packing elements mounted within stationary equipment, comprising a packing loading assembly for sealing a process fluid within the stationary equipment and for applying the a...