US Patent Issued to SWAGELOK on Sept. 30 for "Weld collet" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,609, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SWAGELOK COMPANY (Solon, Ohio).

"Weld collet" was invented by Peter M. Oyster (Ravenna, Ohio), Richard A. Erhard (Medina, Ohio), Bryan S. Reiger (Willowick, Ohio), Robert Bianco (Columbia Station, Ohio) and Jeremy Elek (Chagrin Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collet member for a colleting fixture includes a monolithic collet body including a clamping block engaging outer wall and a workpiece engaging inner wall extending circumferentially between first and second end walls, each of the outer wall, the inner wall, and the first and second end walls extending axially from a radial ...