US Patent Issued to SOUTH FENCE MACHINERY on Dec. 9 for "Machine for forming knotted fence mesh" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,556, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SOUTH FENCE MACHINERY Ltd. (Christchurch, New Zealand).

"Machine for forming knotted fence mesh" was invented by Karl Beardsley (Prebbleton, New Zealand), Benjamin Laurie Byers (Rolleston, New Zealand) and Jack Hendrikz (Prebbleton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine for forming knotted fence mesh has a plurality of side by side knot boxes. Each knot box is for forming a knot at an intersection between a line-wire and a stay-wire. Each of the knot boxes has a first pair of formers configured to move towards the line-wire-stay-wire intersection from a front side forming a knot at...