US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 9 for "Cable tie tensioning and cut-off tool" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,598, issued on June 9, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Cable tie tensioning and cut-off tool" was invented by Giancarlo Galli (Cremona, Italy) and Lorenzo Altarino (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example tools for tensioning and severing an elongate cable tie include, inter alia, an adjustable biasing mechanism, adapted to provide a biasing load to any one of said trigger mechanism, said tension mechanism and said cut-off mechanism. The adjustable biasing mechanism further comprises a second biasing member, provided within said barrel portion; a lever link, pivotably mounted to a thir...