ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,589, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Greif-Velox Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Lubeck, Germany).
"Valve bag filling device" was invented by Alexander Boje (Lubeck, Germany), Bernd Tillack (Lubeck, Germany), Ralf Drews (Lubeck, Germany) and Alexander Mildner (Lubeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve bag filling device for filling powdered filling material into a valve bag is provided, and has a filling spout (1), which is provided so as to be introduced into a valve hose of a valve bag to be filled. The device has a conveying device for conveying the filling material to be filled from a supply tank through the filling spout (...