US Patent Issued to CLAAS Saulgau on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus for assisting the exchange of blades on mowers" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,216, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CLAAS Saulgau GmbH (Bad Saulgau, Germany).

"Apparatus for assisting the exchange of blades on mowers" was invented by Alfred Siemer (Apen/Godensholt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (10) for assisting the exchange of blades on a mowing member of a mower having a mowing disk, a blade carrier and at least one blade mounted on the blade carrier via a pin connected to the blade carrier and extends through a recess in the mowing disk, a lever device (11) having at one end an actuating handle (14) actuatable by hand, and has at a second end at least one bending-open body (15, 16), ...