US Patent Issued to PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 3 for "Runner turn-off for a mold" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,655, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Wauconda, Ill.).

"Runner turn-off for a mold" was invented by Glenn Starkey (Wauconda, Ill.), Sebastian Jurczak (Wauconda, Ill.) and James Fattori (Trevose, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A runner turn-off for a mold. The runner turn-off includes a bottom ring and a top ring rotatable on the bottom ring. The runner turn-off has a generally cylindrical shape to allow for the rotation, and includes a machining flat on each of two opposing sides of the bottom ring and partially extending into the top ring. A plurality of detents is disposed in one of a...