US Patent Issued to COPERION on Feb. 3 for "Cellular wheel sluice for bulk material, and method for automatically clearing a cellular wheel of such a cellular wheel sluice" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,044, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to COPERION GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Cellular wheel sluice for bulk material, and method for automatically clearing a cellular wheel of such a cellular wheel sluice" was invented by Cornel Fuest (Ravensburg, Germany), Max Langenberger (Kleintissen, Germany), Matthias Schorer (Amtzell, Germany), Jochen Sprung (Ravensburg, Germany), Michael Walter (Bad Saulgau, Germany) and Bruno Zinser (Waldburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular wheel sluice for bulk material comprises a housing having an interior, an extraction side cover releasably fastened to the housing, a cellular wheel which...