ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,203, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER (Courbevoie, France).
"Fibre producing machine with improved maintenance" was invented by Jiri Jankovsky (Veliny, Czech Republic) and Philippe Morin (Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for fiberizing mineral wool by free centrifugation, includes a frame on which is mounted at least one centrifugation wheel, the centrifugation wheel being connected to a transmission shaft designed to rotate it by transmitting the movement of rotation of an output shaft of a drive unit, wherein the machine further includes at least one intermediary transmis...