US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 15 for "Assembly for positioning pipe machining apparatus for miter cutting" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,062, issued on July 15, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Assembly for positioning pipe machining apparatus for miter cutting" was invented by Roy C. Coakley (Northlake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning assembly is provided to position a pipe machining apparatus on a pipe so that a miter cut can be performed. The pipe machining apparatus includes a frame, a tool carrier rotatably mounted to the frame, wherein the frame and tool carrier define a longitudinal central axis, a plurality of couplers equally spaced around the frame and coupled to the frame, each coupler being configured to be move...