US Patent Issued to LOCINOX on Sept. 23 for "Dashpot for damping a closing movement of a closure system" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,779, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LOCINOX (Waregem, Belgium).

"Dashpot for damping a closing movement of a closure system" was invented by Joseph Talpe (Heestert-Zwevegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dashpot comprising: a closed cylinder cavity and a damper shaft (24) which are rotatable with respect to one another; a piston (47) which is slideable between two extreme positions; and a motion converting mechanism to convert the relative rotation between the cylinder barrel (17) and the damper shaft (24) into a sliding motion of the piston (47). The motion converting mechanism comprises two co-operating screw threa...