ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,986, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH (Oelde, Germany).
"Nozzle centrifuge having a nozzle monitoring device and method for monitoring nozzles of a nozzle centrifuge" was invented by Alexander Kraus (Oelde, Germany) and Rudiger Gohmann (Oelde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle monitoring device for a continuously operating nozzle centrifuge, in particular a nozzle separator, which includes a housing, in which a drum which has a defined number of nozzles on a periphery of the drum is arranged so as to be rotatable about a vertical rotational axis is provided. The nozzle monitoring device h...