Patents Assigned to GEA HOULE INC
  • Patent number: 10463018
    Abstract: A rotary milking station for milking, which includes a base having a circular path disposed about a given center. The rotary milking station also includes a driving assembly operatively mountable onto the base so as to be disposed about the circular path of the base. The rotary milking station also includes a carrousel operatively mountable onto the driving assembly, the carrousel being made out of sectional segments, each sectional segment having a lower protruding vertical portion and a pair of flange portions each projecting from a corresponding side of the vertical portion, the sectional segments being interconnected to another so as to define the carrousel, the vertical portions of the sectional segments being positioned, shaped and sized so as to be disposed along the circular path of the base and for cooperating with the driving assembly to enable the carrousel to be rotatably moveable with respect to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: GEA HOULE INC.
    Inventor: Alain Courtemanche
  • Patent number: 9357749
    Abstract: A rotary milking station (1) for milking cows and the like, the rotary milking station (1) including a base (3) having a circular path (5) disposed about a given center (7). The rotary milking station (1) also includes a driving assembly (9) operatively mountable onto the base (3) so as to be disposed about the circular path (5) of the base (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: GEA HOULE INC.
    Inventor: Alain Courtemanche
  • Patent number: 9101861
    Abstract: A liquid separating drum (1) for use with a separator (3) in order to separate liquid material (11a) from solid material (11b) in a mixture material (11) to be processed. The liquid separating drum (1) includes an elongated main body (5) having a longitudinal axis (7), the main body (5) being removably mountable about a base frame (9) of the separator (3) so as to be rotatable with respect thereto, the main body (5) having an inlet (5a) for receiving the mixture material (11) to be processed, and an outlet (5b) for releasing processed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: GEA HOULE INC.
    Inventors: Alain Courtemanche, Yann Desrochers, Stephane St-Onge
  • Publication number: 20120255896
    Abstract: A liquid separating drum (1) for use with a separator (3) in order to separate liquid material (11a) from solid material (11b) in a mixture material (11) to be processed. The liquid separating drum (1) includes an elongated main body (5) having a longitudinal axis (7), the main body (5) being removably mountable about a base frame (9) of the separator (3) so as to be rotatable with respect thereto, the main body (5) having an inlet (5a) for receiving the mixture material (11) to be processed, and an outlet (5b) for releasing processed material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: GEA HOULE INC
    Inventors: Alain Courtemanche, Yann Desrochers, Stephane St-Onge