US Patent Issued to Hoerbiger Wien on June 10 for "Sealing device for a piston rod of a reciprocating compressor" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,140, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hoerbiger Wien GmbH (Vienna).

"Sealing device for a piston rod of a reciprocating compressor" was invented by Martin Lagler (Vienna), Andreas Kaufmann (Vienna) and Guido Pratelli (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a sealing device (15) for sealing a piston rod (8) of a reciprocating compressor (1), which provides good sealing properties at compressor standstill, which has a simple structure, which allows for a simple handling and which requires no external source of energy, the sealing device (15) comprises a number of first packing retainers (18), each retainer includin...