ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,742, issued on March 18, was assigned to GRAINTECH INNOVATION PTY LTD (Wendouree, Australia).
"Coating apparatus comprising a cleaning arrangement" was invented by Nicholas Andrew Smith (Wendouree, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning arrangement (200) for a coating apparatus (100). The coating apparatus has a base (123) for carrying loose material. The base is rotatable to coat the loose material. The cleaning arrangement includes a base-scraping arrangement (127) and further includes a mounting arrangement (131) by which the base-scraping arrangement is mounted to be reversibly lowered, from a coating position, to a...