Patents Examined by Matthew Katcoff
  • Patent number: 12654172
    Abstract: A cone crusher head, system, and crusher including the cone crusher head and system. A conical mantle radially extends from an interference fit section and has a head diameter Dch. The conical mantle has a wear part support surface and a shaft support surface. The interference fit section has a nominal interference fit diameter Dif. The conical mantle has an armpit groove for receiving a slip ring. The armpit groove is covered by the conical mantle with an armpit thickness La. Fretting wear is reduced by dimensioning the crusher head so that a ratio of the head diameter Dch to the nominal interference fit diameter Dif is most 2.5; and a ratio of the head diameter Dch to the armpit thickness La is at least 10.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Metso Finland Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Merikoski, Petri Kujansuu
  • Patent number: 12649256
    Abstract: Supporting tables 8, 9 for supporting both edges 90a, 90b of a veneer 90 are arranged when both edges 90a, 90b are scarfed using circular saws 40a, 41a. Supporting tables 8, 9 include pressing units 56, 57 for pressing both edges 90a, 90b, circular saw contacting sections 54, 55 for receiving the circular saws 40a, 41a, and auxiliary conveyors 60, 62 for transporting both edges 90a, 90b in a transporting direction TD. Pressing units 56, 57 are configured to press both edges 90a, 90b against at least the auxiliary conveyors 60, 62. Auxiliary conveyors 60, 62 are arranged adjacent to the circular saw contacting sections 54, 55. Both edges 90a, 90b transported in the transporting direction TD are pressed by the pressing units 56, 57, reducing a friction acting on both edges 90a, 90b in the direction opposite to the transporting direction TD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: MEINAN MACHINERY WORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Inoue, Michito Ninomiya, Yasuhiro Koike
  • Patent number: 12622369
    Abstract: Device for timber harvesting having a felling head which includes a gripper and saw unit and a tilting device. The gripper and saw unit have gripper arms which can be actuated by a first hydraulic cylinder and a cutting element which can be pivoted out by a second hydraulic cylinder, and can be pivoted from a depositing position into a cutting position for the harvested material with the aid of the tilting device, which can be actuated by a third hydraulic cylinder. The first hydraulic cylinder is connected to a first hydraulic line for opening the gripper arms and to a second hydraulic line for closing the gripper arms. The tilting device can be pivoted from its cutting position into its depositing position by pressurizing the second hydraulic line in a pressure range in which the cutting element remains in an inactive state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Inventor: Werner Steininger
  • Patent number: 12623370
    Abstract: A mortising jig and associated components and methods for cutting a mortise in a workpiece. The jig includes a guide assembly for locating and moving a drill bit of a drilling tool relative to the workpiece. The guide assembly includes a guide rail and a guide. The guide includes a guide carriage movably mounted on the guide rail for movement along the guide rail and a drill bit support. The drill bit support is movable with the guide carriage. The drill bit support includes a rest arranged to locate the drill bit of the drilling tool relative to the workpiece. The drill bit support is movable relative to the guide carriage to change a distance between the rest and the guide carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: JESSEM TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Darrin E. Smith
  • Patent number: 12611677
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement of a horizontal grinding mill with a drum includes a first bearing device and a second bearing device, the drum being supported in rotation by the first and second bearing devices. The bearing arrangement further includes a load determiner that determines a load applied on the first bearing device and fill rate determiner that determines a fill rate of the drum during normal operation of the horizontal grinding mill from a first relationship determined during a calibration period. The first relationship correlates the fill rate of the drum to the determined load applied on the first bearing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Eric Sixten Jonas Kemi, Stijn Van Eesbeek, Mohamad Amin Al Hajj, Hans Linus Lejon Efraimsson
  • Patent number: 12583145
    Abstract: An attachment for a router is provided. The attachment may be an adaptor for easily connecting the router to another component. The attachment includes a frame arrangement and a bottom cover that covers the mounting portion of the frame arrangement used to secure the attachment to the router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: BAM IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Josue dos Santos Moraes
  • Patent number: 12582994
    Abstract: Modular shredding rings for implementation in waste disposers, such as food waste disposers, as well as waste disposers employing such modular shredder rings and related methods of operating and assembling, are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a food waste disposer includes a food conveying section, a motor section, and a grinding section that are all supported by or formed within a housing. The grinding section includes a rotating plate and a modular shredder ring, the modular shredder ring including an annular support structure and a plurality of shredder modules mounted upon or coupled to the annular support structure. Additionally, the respective shredder modules are respectively positioned along respective different portions of a radially-inwardly-facing annular surface of the annular support structure. Further, each of the respective shredder modules includes one or more respective first contacting formations that at least partly define one or more respective first spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventor: Brandon R. Blanke
  • Patent number: 12576552
    Abstract: A debarking drum (1) for the debarking of wood (2) has an essentially horizontal cylindrical drum (10) supported to revolve around its longitudinal axis. The drum has a first end (12) and a second end (14) with an inner surface with inwardly projecting longitudinally extending debarking iron sections (16). Bark openings or slots (20) extend through the drum inner surface (18) and multiple rigid studs (22) protrude inwardly from the inner surface (18) and are positioned between the debarking iron sections (16). The studs operate to break the bark (3) of the wood (2) for debarking. The studs (22) are positioned along a partial length (L) of the drum (10) between the first end (12) and the second end (14). The invention also relates to a method and system for the debarking of wood by the debarking drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Tommi Honkanen
  • Patent number: 12577040
    Abstract: A handheld trash compaction apparatus for compacting trash downwardly into a trash can using a portable, handheld device includes a housing lid with a handle attached thereto, a bottom press configured to fit within the housing lid, and a drive mechanism mounted within the housing lid and coupled to the bottom press. The drive mechanism is actuatable to move in a compacting direction which urges the bottom press downwardly and outwardly from the housing lid. When actuated in the compacting direction, the bottom press is configured to compact waste into the waste container. The drive mechanism is also actuatable to move in a retracting direction which urges the bottom press upwardly and inwardly toward the housing lid. When actuated in the retracting direction, the bottom press is configured for storage within the housing lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Inventor: Wayne Smith
  • Patent number: 12575513
    Abstract: A stump grinder has a grinding arm that durably mounts a rotatable grinding wheel. The stump grinder includes a motor with a drive shaft that is rotatably coupled to the grinding wheel. The grinding wheel includes a stub shaft attached thereto that is received within a bearing. A control is movable to produce corresponding pivoting motion of the grinding arm. The control includes a depressible trigger for starting and stopping the operation of the grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: The Toro Company
    Inventors: Joseph C. Knipp, Christopher J. Kost, David A. Murray, Landon M. Aldinger, John P. Azure
  • Patent number: 12564981
    Abstract: A powered log splitter includes a support structure configured to support a log, a ram that is operable to engage and split the log, a hydraulic drive unit to actuate the ram, and a stand-alone motor unit to power the hydraulic drive unit. The stand-alone motor unit includes a housing, an electric motor located within the housing, and a battery pack removably coupled to the housing. The battery pack is configured to supply electrical current to the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Evan M. Glanzer, Travis S. Mergener, Ian C. Richards, Joseph William Miller
  • Patent number: 12558861
    Abstract: A dust compaction system includes a compaction device including a hopper with an input port into which a dust is input and a discharge port from which the dust is discharged, and a compaction unit configured to form pellets by compressing the dust supplied from the discharge port of the hopper, and the dust compaction system further includes a suction device configured to suck in the hopper of the compaction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Koh Saito, Shintaro Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12552123
    Abstract: A roller press comprising including a roller face defining a plurality of individual reliefs shaped and sized to compress feed material into a plurality of discrete briquettes, each of the individual reliefs defining a quadrilateral shaped depression having rounded corners to reduce stress concentrations in the resulting briquettes, wherein a pair of leading edge rounded corners are defined by a first radius and a pair of trailing edge rounded corners are defined by a second radius, the first radius being smaller than the second radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: The Mosaic Company
    Inventors: David Jordison, Kimberly Rinas
  • Patent number: 12552067
    Abstract: A notch cutter according to the present invention generally comprises a cutting head driven by a motor to cut a notch parallel to the wood grain of a board. The board is held in place by a board frame, while wood shavings are funneled away from the notch cutter through an exhaust. Pneumatic tubes may be used to facilitate linear movement of the cutting head and motor along guide rails. The motor and guide rails are protected by a casing that may include beams and a stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Inventors: Kevin W. Wieser, Daniel P. Berken
  • Patent number: 12546117
    Abstract: A hand rail system and associated methods. Newel posts of the hand rail system can be mounted in a top mount configuration or a lateral mount configuration. Mounts are receivable in a boot subassembly in a horizontal or vertical arrangement for anchoring the boot subassembly to substructure. After anchoring of the boot subassembly, a column subassembly may be installed and anchored. Openings in the boot and column subassemblies permit access to the interior of the newel post for anchoring the boot and column subassemblies and for connecting a hand rail to the column subassembly. Subsequent installation of covers on the boot subassembly and column subassembly closes the newel post and provides a finished appearance free of external indication that openings in the newel post existed and have been covered. Four-sided turned newels, newel panel retainers, and associated methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Inventor: Charles Wiebe
  • Patent number: 12539642
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that is suitable for mounting in a variety of orientations and for forming a variety of woodworking joints at a high throughput. The apparatus is directed to a tool that couples with a power tool to either plunge into or cross feed through a workpiece. The apparatus is particularly well suited for forming biscuit dado, dado, mortise, tenon, floating tenon, dowel, bridle, half lap, tongue, and groove joints, without requiring significant tool changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Inventor: Luke Eckes
  • Patent number: 12539637
    Abstract: In order to increase the obtainable sawn timber volume in the side board region during the production of sawn timber from a tree trunk, in a method in which the tree trunk is canted at at least two sides, preferably four sides, a remaining wane region is milled out at at least two mutually opposite corner regions by milling tools, and a side product board is cut off by a saw cut along a plane bounded by the corner regions, it is provided that, to mill out the corner regions, the milling tools are moved relative to the tree trunk in an arc, predefined on the basis of a measurement of the tree trunk, by virtue of the fact that, during a feed movement of the tree trunk relative to the milling tools, said milling tools are adjusted so as to follow the arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Gebrüder Linck, Maschinenfabrik ‘Gatterlinck’ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Martin
  • Patent number: 12521906
    Abstract: A hand-press planer includes a base, a tool shaft, an elevation adjustment device, a first workbench, a fix seat, a second workbench, and a reinforcement device. The tool shaft is rotatably disposed on the base. The elevation adjustment device is disposed on one end of the base, and includes an adjustment seat and a movement seat. The movement seat is disposed on the adjustment seat and allowed to generate a relative rising and lowering movement. The first workbench is combined with the movement seat. The fix seat is disposed on another end of the base. The second workbench is combined with the fix seat. The reinforcement device is disposed on the base and connected with the adjustment seat. Therefore, the structural strength of the adjustment seat disposed on the base is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: THE KINGCRAFT MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Calvin Chou, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 12510489
    Abstract: An integrated approach to the production and supply chain from forest to end use products, including growing trees, logging trees, and processing logs that maximises production of higher value products and minimises costs and 5 waste is critical to a sustainable timber industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: SOLARWOOD INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD
    Inventor: Ronald David Goldschlager
  • Patent number: 12508600
    Abstract: A horizontal bead mill for dispersing secondary battery materials and a method for dispersing conductive materials using the horizontal bead mill for dispersing the secondary battery materials are provided. The horizontal bead mill includes a vessel including an inlet and an outlet configured to receive disperse media. The vessel is filled with beads. A rotor is rotated in the vessel to rotate the beads to disperse the disperse media. A driving unit rotates the rotor. An inner surface of a sidewall of the vessel is inclined at a predetermined angle for an axis of the rotor in a manner that an inner diameter of the vessel gradually decreases from an inlet side to an outlet side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung Hoon Ahn, Hyung Suk Cho