ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,381, issued on June 3, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Method for mounting a stack of separating discs in a centrifugal separator bowl and a tool" was invented by Jouko Pitkamaki (Eskilstuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mounting a stack of separating discs in a centrifugal separator bowl comprising a bowl body and a bowl hood includes mounting and securing the stack of separating discs on a distributor; placing and rotatably fixing the distributor in the bowl body; mounting the bowl hood on the bowl body; arranging a compression tool for compressing the stack of separating discs; fasteni...