ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,403, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CROSS MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1938) Ltd. (Bath, Great Britain).
"Shaft mounting assembly" was invented by Edward Henry Cross (Bath, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft mounting assembly includes an elongate shaft with an outer surface having a substantially circular cross-section and a cylinder having an inner surface defining a bore housing the shaft. A spring having a substantially circular discontinuous band with correspondingly shaped axially arcuate inner and outer surfaces. One of the surfaces comprises a groove, and the spring is positioned in the groove with both axial e...