Patents Assigned to Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
  • Work-piece supported tool apparatus particularly adapted for use with large structural members
    Patent number: 4268196
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for carrying, positioning and operating relatively unwieldy machine tools, such as heavy multiple-head drilling assemblies, upon massive flanged work-pieces, such as structural members for bridges, in order to more efficiently perform required operations upon the work-pieces, such as the pre-drilling of girders and their associated splice plates in a fabrication yard prior to field erection of the structure into which they will be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
    Inventors: James E. Harrow, Robert T. Kenney, II