US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Dec. 16 for "Cutter bar skid shoe for an agricultural harvester header" (Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,731, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Cutter bar skid shoe for an agricultural harvester header" was invented by Mitchell Blank (Lancaster, Pa.), Joel T. Cook (Akron, Pa.), Joseph R. Best (Leola, Pa.) and David V. Dobbins (Westmont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutter bar skid shoe for a header of an agricultural harvester. The cutter bar skid shoe includes a skid plate having an upper surface, a lower surface, a fore end and an aft end. The cutter bar skid shoe further includes a cutter knife clip integral with and extending forwardly of the fore end of the skid plate for en...