US Patent Issued to John Zink on May 20 for "Flare tip having reduced gas leakage" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,757, issued on May 20, was assigned to John Zink Co. LLC.

"Flare tip having reduced gas leakage" was invented by Adam B. Herrington (Tulsa, Okla.), Jaime A. Erazo (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Wesley R. Bussman (Tulsa, Okla.) and Jeff W. White (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least some embodiments a flare includes a gasket sized and shaped to prevent gas-leakage at the gas slot when pressure of gas entering the flare is below a designed minimum opening pressure that causes the flare bowl to move away from the tip housing. At least some embodiments of a flare includes a diaphragm spring coupled with the flare bowl to assist i...