US Patent Issued to METALOGENIA RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Adapter and wear element with a pin arranged at a low stress point" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,861, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to METALOGENIA RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Adapter and wear element with a pin arranged at a low stress point" was invented by Raul Torres Montalvo (Barcelona, Spain), Albert Gimeno Tordera (Barcelona, Spain) and Fermin Sanchez Guisado (Premia de Mar, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adapter and a wear element of a shovel of an earth moving machine attached to one another by means of a pin, wherein the pin is positioned at a point such that, as there is relative rotation between the wear element and the adapter, due to the application of both a...