US Patent Issued to Numatic International on Aug. 18 for "Floor treatment machine" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,243, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Numatic International Ltd..

"Floor treatment machine" was invented by Piotr Bukowski (Chard, Great Britain) and Nicholas Putt (Chard, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor treatment machine has a base portion with two or more rotatable generally disc-shaped floor-facing work heads arranged side-by-side on the floor and each having a generally vertical axis of rotation, the machine having drive means for rotatably driving the work heads in counter-rotation with respect to one another, and wherein the rotational axes of both work heads are tilted transversely from their respective ...