US Patent Issued to GEMA SWITZERLAND on Nov. 25 for "Dense-phase powder pump with pinch valve and pinch valve" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,000, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GEMA SWITZERLAND GMBH (Gossau, Switzerland).

"Dense-phase powder pump with pinch valve and pinch valve" was invented by Roger Tobler (Gossau, Switzerland) and Marco Sanwald (Abtwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dense-phase powder pump for conveying powder-type materials, in particular coating powder, includes at least one powder conveying chamber with a filter element that has at least regions thereof accommodated in a casing body and at least one pinch valve that is or can be connected to an end region of the powder conveying chamber. In particular, the pinch valve includes a v...