ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,814, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to COPERION GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Feeding screw machine for feeding a processing screw machine" was invented by Thorsten Stirner (Konigsbach-Stein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding screw machine serves for feeding a processing screw machine. The feeding screw machine comprises a housing with at least one housing bore formed therein. An associated screw conveyor shaft is rotatably disposed in the at least one housing bore to convey material in a conveying direction from a supply opening to a feeding opening. An emptying opening is formed in the housing. The emptying opening en...