US Patent Issued to SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP on May 20 for "Clamp adapter for lift vehicle to facilitate lifting of malleable objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,790, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHAW INDUSTRIES GROUP INC. (Dalton, Ga.).

"Clamp adapter for lift vehicle to facilitate lifting of malleable objects" was invented by Christopher Mark Peeler (El Segundo, Calif.) and Timothy J. Bass (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp adaptor is mountable on a bale squeeze attachment of a lift vehicle or truck to allow the lift vehicle or truck to lift a filled or partially-filled malleable bag. The clamp adaptor has first and second symmetrically mirrored opposing clamp-sides, each having a part-cylindrical side wall with a curvature about a vertical axis and a flat part...