US Patent Issued to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING on Sept. 30 for "Harvesting cam reel with convertible transport mode" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,541, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING LTD. (Frontier, Canada).

"Harvesting cam reel with convertible transport mode" 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 cam reel for use on a harvesting header that can be configured in both operating and transport positions. The reel comprises a plurality of finger-bearing reel bats disposed evenly around the reel shaft, each rotatably attached through the distal ends of radial arms extending outwardly from the reel shaft. A cam disc is attached to the frame and engages each reel bat by a cam fol...