US Patent Issued to Rightline Equipment on Feb. 17 for "Load handler for lift truck with segmented channel bearings" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,652, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rightline Equipment INC. (Ranier, Ore.).

"Load handler for lift truck with segmented channel bearings" was invented by Jim D. Hamlik (Vancouver, Wash.), Joel D. Hamlik (Vancouver, Wash.) and Cameron R. Burak (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp assembly for a lift truck load handler comprising a frame with one or more guide channels and one or more load handler appendages such as forks or clamp arms. The appendages are coupled to arms, each slidingly inserted in one of the guide channels. The guide channels each have a segmented channel bearing set inserted therein. Each seg...