ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,957, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction G.m.b.H. (Zeltweg, Austria).
"Cable handling device for cable bolts" was invented by Bruno Reumuller (Knittelfeld, Austria) and Thomas Galler (Althofen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable handling device for an underground mining drill rig, wherein the cable handling device includes a first feeding assembly having a cable bending guide and a first feeding device configured to receive a cable, grip the cable and feed the cable in a first direction into the cable bending guide. The cable bending guide is configured to guide the cable along an arcuate pat...