ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,026, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CYLINDER CYCLONE LLC (Harrisonburg, Va.).
"Large scale hydraulic cylinder assembly, disassembly and maintenance system" was invented by Frank L Horst (Harrisonburg, Va.), David R Horst (Harrisonburg, Va.) and Wayne Sauder (Harrisonburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large scale hydraulic cylinder assembly, disassembly and maintenance system to hoist a hydraulic cylinder in the air, secure one end of the hydraulic cylinder to a tooling piece secured to a movable hydraulically operated torque head and secure a second end of the hydraulic cylinder to a tooling piece secured to a movable tai...