US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on April 7 for "Agricultural disc mower with knife-retaining spring plate" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,750, issued on April 7, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Agricultural disc mower with knife-retaining spring plate" was invented by Albert Childs (Meadville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc cutter for an agricultural implement includes: a disc body; a knife nut coupled to the disc body; a knife including a knife opening in which the knife nut is disposed, the knife being configured to rotate about a rotation axis defined by the knife nut; and a spring plate carrying at least two protrusions, the spring plate being biased towards the disc body such that in a first position the spring plate bear...