ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,754, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Columbus McKinnon Corp. (Getzville, N.Y.).
"Gearless ratcheting binder" was invented by William P. Wells Jr. (Ider, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearless binder has a main tube with internal threads at opposed open ends. The gearless binder has a pair of semicircular threaded shafts threadably received in the opposed open ends such that, when the shafts are connected by hooks to a chain and prevented from rotation, the rotation of the tube by a gearless mechanism causes the shafts to simultaneously move inward relative to the tube increasing tension on the opposed hooks to secure a loa...