US Patent Issued to SPIROFLOW on July 8 for "Apparatus and method for receiving and conveying bulk material" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,386, issued on July 8, was assigned to SPIROFLOW Ltd. (Lancashire, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for receiving and conveying bulk material" was invented by Terry Mason (Lancashire, Great Britain) and Christopher Brennan (Lancashire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for receiving and conveying bulk material is provided. The apparatus comprises a hopper for receiving bulk material, at least one outlet configured to enable bulk material, received by the hopper, to exit the hopper, and an agitator arrangement. The agitator arrangement is configured to agitate the bulk material in the hopper in order to cou...