ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,616, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Fluid cylinder with wedge flanges" was invented by Jacob Gregory Garrison (Tulsa, Okla.), Paul Douglas Cary (Sapulpa, Okla.), Adam Bradley Avey (Tulsa, Okla.) and Konner Casey Kay (Broken Arrow, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retaining assembly for coupling a fluid end component to a fluid end casing. The retaining assembly includes a pair for clamp members, each of which has a pair of rails that define a wedge-shaped groove therebetween. The groove applying an increasing amount of pre-load force or tension to a flange of the fluid end components an...