US Patent Issued to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on Aug. 26 for "Modular fork assembly for a forked material-handling vehicle" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,836, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. (Fairview, Ore.).

"Modular fork assembly for a forked material-handling vehicle" was invented by Andrew White (Whitchurch, Great Britain) and Robert Dunigan (Benson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular fork assembly for a pallet truck includes a discrete elongate body, a discrete load wheel module, and a discrete fork tip that may be detachably connected by the same or different types of interlocking mechanisms that are adapted to inhibit sheer forces. The load wheel module includes a frame and a load wheel assembly that includes a load wheel that i...