US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ on July 22 for "Method and device for measuring the filtrate content on a screw press" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,159, issued on July 22, was assigned to ANDRITZ AG (Graz, Austria).

"Method and device for measuring the filtrate content on a screw press" was invented by Markus Egger (Graz, Austria), Franco Pichler (Voitsberg, Austria), Daniel Stelzer (Veitsch, Austria) and Stefan Willberger (Eggersdorf bei Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a screw press for separating filtrate from a feed material. It is characterised in that a sensor arrangement comprising a sensor for measuring the filtrate content is arranged in the discharge area, the feed material flowing towards and/or around the sensor. This allows simpl...