US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 1 for "Wire feeder with adjustable lift" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,827, issued on July 1, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Wire feeder with adjustable lift" was invented by Brian Lee Ott (Sherwood, Wis.) and Adam Richard Schmitz (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding system has a wire feeder having an adjustable lift point. The wire feeder includes a wire supply source configured to supply welding wire, a wire drive assembly configured to feed wire to a welding gun from the spool, and a support base. The wire supply source and the wire drive assembly are supported by the base. A lift member is connected to the support base and is selectively movable in at le...