Kalamb engineer Prashant bags patent for 2-cylinder trolley

Yavatmal: Prashant Dehankar, an LPG gas dealer of Kalamb, 22 km from here, bagged global patent for his invention — a trolley carrying two LPG cylinders at a time — from Federal Republic of Germany.
An engineer-turned-entrepreneur, Prashant named the new equipment ‘Sarathi’ which not only saves money and time but also helps to minimise the burden of humans.Speaking to TOI, Prashant said, “The trolley can carry two LPG cylinders at a time. It will help avoid wear and tear of the cylinders and save money in maintaining the cylinders.”
Prashant has invented many novel gadgets for Indian Oil Corporation and most of them are being used in its godowns and refilling plants across the country. The new patent’s maiden demonstration was done in an LPG agency in Washim district recently and it received great acclaim from the dealers and the corporation.
Meanwhile, the chief working president Cornelia Roodlof Shofar of the office of German Patent and Trademark approved the new equipment and granted the global patent to Prashant. He got guidance from IOC sales officer Nilesh Thakre and chief zonal manager Anil Mehar.
The equipment will soon be marketed across the country, said Prashant.
Prashant gives the credit of his success to father Muralidharrao Dehankar a ‘Krushibhushan Puraskar’ recipient.
An avid environmentalist Prashant has planted thousands of saplings under the social forestry scheme around Kalamb. He has also produced over a dozen documentary films on educational and motivational theme and acted in them which were later given to IOC.