US Patent Issued to Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau on Nov. 11 for "Method of prestressing the membrane of a membrane press and press for carrying out this method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,141, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH (Krefeld, Germany).

"Method of prestressing the membrane of a membrane press and press for carrying out this method" was invented by Fabian Koffers (Krefeld, Germany), Michael Scholer (Rheurdt, Germany), Klaus Schurmann (Juchen, Germany) and Lothar Sebastian (Duisburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pretensioning the membrane of a press, a) providing a press having a first pressing tool, a second pressing tool and a membrane, the first pressing tool and the second pressing tool are movable, the membrane connected to one of the pres...