US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Hand tool with external jam nut and internal ramped cylindrical compression wedge" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,273, issued on Sept. 1.

"Hand tool with external jam nut and internal ramped cylindrical compression wedge" was invented by Patricia Hurt (Saint Cloud, Minn.) and Daniel P. Hurt (Saint Cloud, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand tool has end coupled handle segments. A fastener extends into a first coupler half that has an internal ramped cylindrical compression wedge. The fastener runs parallel to the handle segment and shortens the wedge in the direction of the fastener longitudinal axis, while driving the wedge radially outward therefrom to secure to the handle segment. A second coupler half engages to the first. The second ...