US Patent Issued to Putzmeister Engineering on Feb. 25 for "Concrete transport vehicle with drum lift apparatus" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,574, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Putzmeister Engineering GmbH (Aichtal, Germany).

"Concrete transport vehicle with drum lift apparatus" was invented by Emiliano Fernandez (Madrid), Jose Antonio Nieto (Madrid) and Ivan Varela (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concrete transport vehicle has a vehicle chassis, a concrete drum unit and a drum lift apparatus. The vehicle chassis carries the concrete drum unit and the drum lift apparatus. The concrete drum unit has a concrete drum, wherein the concrete drum is adapted to discharge concrete. The drum lift apparatus is adapted to lift the concrete drum unit with reference to th...