ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,675, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LIEBHERR-COMPONENTS KIRCHDORF GMBH (Kirchdorf, Germany).
"Locking head" was invented by Markus Schuster (Ottobeuren, Germany), Jurgen Bopp (Ummendorf, Germany) and Hans-Peter Lavergne (Trunkelsberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a locking head for telescoping cylinders of a telescopic boom, which has a plurality of telescopic boom portions, and a housing which comprises at least one bolt-like cylinder locking body, which can be moved in and out of the housing in order to lock the locking head with a telescopic boom portion, and at least one bolt-like te...