US Patent Issued to PAVESTONE on June 23 for "Gapless buffer for masonry block manufacture" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,827, issued on June 23, was assigned to PAVESTONE LLC (Atlanta).

"Gapless buffer for masonry block manufacture" was invented by William H. Karau (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for manufacturing masonry blocks, comprising a shoe, a backup plate, a plurality of buffers disposed between the shoe and the backup plate, a plurality of snubbers disposed between the shoe and the backup plate and wherein a relaxed height of the plurality of buffers is equal to or less than a height of the plurality of snubbers."

The patent was filed on June 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/348,231.

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