US Patent Issued to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. on Sept. 16 for "Impact tool with front lubrication assembly" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,254, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Impact tool with front lubrication assembly" was invented by Edward C. Eardley (Easton, Pa.) and Joshua O. Johnson (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool having a front lubrication assembly. The front lubrication assembly includes a lubrication port, a lubrication passage and at least one lubrication channel that directs a lubricant injected from a front end of the impact tool directly into an impact assembly of the impact tool. The lubrication passage extends through an anvil assembly of the impact tool, along an a...