US Patent Issued to CARL GERINGHOFF on Dec. 30 for "Cutting mechanism comprising a leaf spring rocker arm as a cutting element support" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,620, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CARL GERINGHOFF GMBH & Co. KG (Ahlen, Germany).

"Cutting mechanism comprising a leaf spring rocker arm as a cutting element support" was invented by Alexander Heitkamp (Dulmen, Germany), Christoph Hartmann (Ennigerloh, Germany), Hans Putter (Attendorn, Germany) and Steffen Sudhues (Ahlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cutting mechanism (4) for attaching to a harvesting machine (2), comprising a frame (6) that is connected to a plurality of rocker arms (16) spaced apart from one another, facing in the working direction (A) and are movable vertically. I...