US Patent Issued to Moen Tooling on Jan. 20 for "Platen apparatus and turbine contact wheel thereof for belt grinders" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,148, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Moen Tooling LLC (Dallas).

"Platen apparatus and turbine contact wheel thereof for belt grinders" was invented by Jerry Michael Moen (Dallas) and Princeton Wong (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platen apparatus includes a housing having multiple vents; a turbine wheel rotatably attached to a rear section of the housing, the wheel having a circular body and a circumferential face without a coating thereon, the body includes vanes, each vane being a hole which extends through the body from one side to an opposing side of the wheel; a support belt engaged in tension about the circumferent...