US Patent Issued to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Harvesting header knife drive assembly" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,060, issued on June 17, was assigned to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING LTD. (Frontier, Canada).

"Harvesting header knife drive assembly" was invented by Gregory Honey (Bracken, Canada) and Glenn Honey (Bracken, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knife drive assembly for use in a harvesting header may be mounted near the center line of the cutter bar of the header. Mechanical power from the power unit behind the header (typically the combine power output shaft) may be translated for application to two knife assembly sections in the cutter bar at the front of the cutter table. Movement of the two knife assembly sections with this apparat...