US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 5 for "Wire spool rotation resistance adjusters and wire feed assemblies having adjustable wire spool rotation resistance" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,093, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Wire spool rotation resistance adjusters and wire feed assemblies having adjustable wire spool rotation resistance" was invented by Mark Richard Christopher (Neenah, Wis.), Justin Durik (Greenville, Wis.) and Connor Denis Uitenbroek (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example wire spool hub assemblies include: a spindle configured to hold a wire spool; a spool rotation resistor positioned on the spindle to resist rotation of the wire spool on the spindle; and a resistance adjuster configured to selectively apply two or more rotation resistanc...