US Patent Issued to The Charles Machine Works on Oct. 7 for "Cylinder assembly for tilting a vacuum tank" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,741, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Charles Machine Works Inc. (Perry, Okla.).

"Cylinder assembly for tilting a vacuum tank" was invented by Lance D. Littlewood (Edmond, Okla.) and Levi J. Krutzfeldt (Perry, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-cylinder tilting assembly for use with a vacuum tank. The tank is mounted on a frame, such as a trailer or a truck bed, at a pivotal connection at its end. A door is disposed near the end with the pivotal connection. The tilting assembly is at the other end, and has two cylinders with their rods facing alternate directions. The rod of one of the cylinders is pivotally attached to ...