US Patent Issued to OTICO on July 29 for "Kit for forming an agricultural tool from a wheel body or tubular support" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,841, issued on July 29, was assigned to OTICO (Chalmaison, France).

"Kit for forming an agricultural tool from a wheel body or tubular support" was invented by Olivier Phely (Chalmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural tool includes a wheel body and a flexible tire with a hollow chamber and an inner surface around this hollow chamber; a circular opening on the chamber; a pair of beads bordering this opening; and a spacer at least partially tubular with two axially opposite end faces. Over one portion corresponding to one of the beads, the inner surface extends frustoconically by widening radially outward of the ...