US Patent Issued to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies on May 20 for "Methods and apparatus for installation and removal of catalyst carriers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,882, issued on May 20, was assigned to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Methods and apparatus for installation and removal of catalyst carriers" was invented by Henry Arthur Claxton (London), Simon Graham (London), Paul Holden (Royston, Great Britain), Benjamin Geoffrey Mallam (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain) and Dean Graham Shaw (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing catalyst carriers into a first selected reactor tube of a tubular reactor. The method comprising the steps of: i) providing an installation tool, the installation tool comprising: a) an installation frame; b) a movable ram mounte...