US Patent Issued to FIRE CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL on July 15 for "Strainer having non-powered cleaning function" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,763, issued on July 15, was assigned to FIRE CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

"Strainer having non-powered cleaning function" was invented by Do Jun Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a strainer having a non-powered cleaning function. The present invention enables filtration of foreign substances from fluid by disposing a cylindrical filter mesh inside a main body of the trainer, such that the fluid from an inlet pipe flows through the filter mesh toward an outlet pipe. The present invention also enables cleaning of the filter mesh by disposing a central shaft of a scraper ...