US Patent Issued to Dramm Corporation of Manitowoc on Aug. 18 for "Ball valve with improved assembly configuration" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,100, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dramm Corporation of Manitowoc (Manitowoc, Wis.).

"Ball valve with improved assembly configuration" was invented by Jeffrey Thomas Bucher (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Logan Brent Berge (Manitowoc, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball valve assembly is provided. The ball valve assembly includes a valve body and a ball assembly configured to be positioned within the valve body. The ball assembly includes a pin hole positioned between a handle and a partial sphere. The valve body includes a slot extending along an outer surface of a cylindrical wall of the valve body. The slot extends radially ar...