US Patent Issued to MACDON INDUSTRIES on Aug. 4 for "Skid shoe for an agricultural header" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,828, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Skid shoe for an agricultural header" was invented by Cyrus Nigon (Deforest, Wis.), Reid Christ (Evansville, Wis.) and Karl Bernard Hundt (Lake Mills, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skid shoe for use with a header for harvesting row crops, in particular corn, comprises a body having a curvilinear side profile including: a central section having a first side wall, a second side wall, and a bottom surface that is convexly curved in a transverse direction bowing outwardly between the first side wall and the second side wall; a front section having a...