US Patent Issued to Guntert & Zimmerman Const. Div. on July 14 for "Automatically adjusting swing legs for mounting and aligning and reorienting crawlers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,483, issued on July 14, was assigned to Guntert & Zimmerman Const. Div. Inc. (Ripon, Calif.).

"Automatically adjusting swing legs for mounting and aligning and reorienting crawlers" was invented by Ronald M. Guntert Jr. (Stockton, Calif.), Gerald L. Dahlinger (Ripon, Calif.) and Richard Wood Francis (Stockton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swing leg assembly for a paving machine having a main frame and crawler tracks. The main frame can include a center module and laterally movable bolsters. The swing leg for each crawler track supports an upright jacking column. Worm gear drive permits rotational movements of the crawler t...