US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Figure 8 hose roller" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,690, issued on July 14.

"Figure 8 hose roller" was invented by Victoria Elizabeth Agate (Shawnigan Lake, Canada) and Wesley Francis Hyde (Shawnigan Lake, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hose roller is described. An input shaft is coupled to a handle to be rotatably drivable by rotation thereof. A sun sprocket is drivably coupled to the input shaft. A chain is engaged with the sun sprocket and a planetary sprocket, offset from the sun sprocket, to drivably couple the planetary sprocket to the sun sprocket. An intermediate shaft is drivably coupled to the planetary sprocket. A universal joint is connected to the intermediate sh...