US Patent Issued to ENERCON INDUSTRIES on June 24 for "Roll end air fitting adapter and method of using same" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,918, issued on June 24, was assigned to ENERCON INDUSTRIES Corp. (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

"Roll end air fitting adapter and method of using same" was invented by Craig Anthony Wheeler (Mequon, Wis.) and Jacob William Hanson (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll end air fitting adapter is couplable to an end of a cylindrical roll. The adapter includes an inner ring and outer ring defining a central opening concentric with a roll axis, an annular air channel extending about the roll axis, and a plurality of air passages leading from the air channel through the inner ring and/or the outer ring to peripheral outlet...