US Patent Issued to Carl Geringhoff on Sept. 30 for "Cutting mechanism with leaf spring assembly as a cutting element support" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,539, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG (Ahlen, Germany).

"Cutting mechanism with leaf spring assembly as a cutting element support" was invented by Steffen Sudhues (Ahlen, Germany), Alexander Heitkamp (Dulmen, Germany), Andre Hemmesmann (Sassenberg, Germany) and Michael Pokriefke (Hude, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cutting mechanism (4) for installing on a harvesting machine (2). The aim of the invention is to provide a cutting mechanism which comprises a mounting for the cutting elements and which adapts easily to the soil contour without thereby tilting into an u...