US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL OLMI on Jan. 13 for "Device and method for restoring the tube-to-tube sheet weld joints in a shell-and-tube equipment" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,435, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL OLMI S.P.A. (Suisio, Italy).

"Device and method for restoring the tube-to-tube sheet weld joints in a shell-and-tube equipment" was invented by Marco Colombo (Monza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for repairing damaged tube-to-tube sheet weld joints in a shell-and-tube equipment is disclosed. The device consists in a tubular connection element oriented along a central axial direction and includes at least one inner wall, designed to enclose an inner conduit for the passage, along the central axial direction, of at least one fluid processed by the shell-and-tube equipme...