US Patent Issued to INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING on March 3 for "Web retractor with side, top or bottom web exit" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,136, issued on March 3, was assigned to INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING INC. (Westfield, Ind.).

"Web retractor with side, top or bottom web exit" was invented by Jeffrey A. King (Markleville, Ind.) and Thomas Mashino (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web retractor may include a frame with spaced-apart first and second side walls and a bottom wall coupling together the side walls, the frame defining an opening through the first side wall, the second side wall or the bottom wall, a spool rotatably mounted to and between the first and second side walls and spaced apart from the opening, a web having one end mounted to the spo...