US Patent Issued to The Charles Machine Works on April 8 for "Dual rod assembly and collar installation method" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,263, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Charles Machine Works Inc. (Perry, Okla.).

"Dual rod assembly and collar installation method" was invented by Greg L. Slaughter Jr. (Perry, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retention system for attaching a collar to a pipe. The collar has an internally-disposed groove configured for placement of a ring. The ring is sized such that in one orientation, it can enter the collar between torque-transmitting features into the internally-disposed groove. Once in the groove, the ring may be adjusted such that its aperture is generally aligned with the axis of the collar. In this orientation, t...