US Patent Issued to Weir Minerals Australia on July 8 for "Centrifugal slurry pump impeller shroud with lip" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,281, issued on July 8, was assigned to Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. (Australia).

"Centrifugal slurry pump impeller shroud with lip" was invented by Luis Moscoso Lavagna (North Ryde, Australia), Garry Bruce Glaves (Eastwood, Australia) and Adrian Lionel Bois (Pymble, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal slurry pump impeller including: a back shroud with opposed inner and outer faces and an outer peripheral edge, a central axis, a plurality of pumping vanes extending from the inner main face of the back shroud, the pumping vanes being disposed in spaced apart relation, each pumping vane including opposed main side face...