ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,798, issued on May 20, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Twine tension monitoring apparatus" was invented by Lucas Andrew Weller (Hesston, Kan.) and Eric John Herbers (Hesston, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twine tension monitoring apparatus includes a twine tension monitoring portion and a signalling portion. The twine tension monitoring portion includes a laterally extending finger moveable about a horizontally extending axis between a first position and a second position, in which the first position corresponds to a low tension condition and the second position corresponds to a tensioned condition. The signalling ...