ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,746, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH (Biberach an der Riss, Germany).
"Cutting wheel assembly for a slurry wall cutter" was invented by Roland Widmann (Unlingen, Germany) and Johannes Halder (Ertingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates in general to slurry wall cutters for cutting slurry walls in specialist foundation engineering. The invention relates in particular to the cutting wheel assembly for such a slurry wall cutter (1), comprising a rotationally drivable cutter hub (8) and a cutting wheel (3) which can be detachably fastened to the cutter hub for conjoint...