ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,596, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MASCHINENFABRIK BERNARD KRONE GMBH & Co. KG (Spelle, Germany).
"Tool for mounting a chopping knife on a chopping drum" was invented by Michael Huelsmann (Voltlage/Weese, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for mounting a chopping knife to a chopping drum. The tool includes a clamping mechanism for releasably fixing the tool in an auxiliary bore of the chopping drum, a frame, an adjusting element, and a positioning element. The clamping mechanism is reversibly adjustable from a basic state, in which the clamping mechanism is unclamped, to a clamping state, in which the clamping mechani...