US Patent Issued to ELME SPREADER on Aug. 26 for "Spreader, container handling equipment comprising spreader, and method of lifting a transport container" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,022, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ELME SPREADER AB (Almhult, Sweden).

"Spreader, container handling equipment comprising spreader, and method of lifting a transport container" was invented by Erik Forander (Virestad, Sweden) and Orjan Karlsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spreader for lifting a transport container comprises a main frame (26) suspended in a main frame suspension arrangement (36) to enable translation along a longitudinal axis (L). The main frame (26) is vertically supported by the main frame suspension arrangement (36) along a support line extending between a first support end (68a) and a secon...