US Patent Issued to Clack on Sept. 16 for "Fluid treatment tank having a laser welded distributor plate" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,233, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Clack Corp. (Windsor, Wis.).

"Fluid treatment tank having a laser welded distributor plate" was invented by Don Vaughan (Waunakee, Wis.) and Michael Paquette (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributor plate for a fluid treatment tank such as a water softener pressure vessel separates the resin bed from a lower end of the resin tank. The outer peripheral surface of the distributor plate is laser-welded to an inner peripheral surface of the tank. The outer peripheral surface of the distributor plate may have a biasing mechanism that biases the outer peripheral surface of the di...