US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ on Feb. 25 for "Reject chamber of a centrifugal cleaner and a centrifugal cleaner" (Finnish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,427, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ANDRITZ OY (Helsinki).

"Reject chamber of a centrifugal cleaner and a centrifugal cleaner" was invented by Antti Nykanen (Kotka, Finland), Miro Partty (Kotka, Finland) and Jason Huff (Muncy, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal cleaner with a reject chamber (1) having a center dilution arrangement (3) with a dilution nozzle (4) to deliver dilution fluid to the reject chamber (1), and a reject outlet (7) at the bottom of the reject chamber (1). The dilution nozzle (4) points outwards to create a crossing outward flow of dilution fluid across an annular space (5) around the dilution a...