ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,511, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Filling unit for a rotary press and a method for providing an optimized rotary press" was invented by Thomas Brinz (Bissingen an der Teck, Germany), Fabian Werner (Waiblingen, Germany), Torsten Grass (Urbach, Germany) and Matthias Mossinger (GroBerlach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling unit (10) for a rotary press (12) includes a filling wheel (14), a metering wheel (24), a feeding wheel (30) and a medium unit (36). The filling unit (10) is designed in such a way that the feeding wheel (30) can be connected to and disconnected f...