ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,558, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ALITE GmbH (Neustadt, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for conveying hot calcined raw meal" was invented by Moritz Hagendorf (Neustadt, Germany) and Jorg Hammerich (Neustadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methodology for conveying hot Geldart group C materials. A slide plate for a slide of a conveyor for Geldart group C materials having a longitudinal axis, an up-facing surface for supporting the Geldart group C materials, a lower surface, a front-end surface and a rear-end surface may have a significantly reduced slope if the slide plate is made of a ceramic refractory such that the sl...