US Patent Issued to S.W.N.G. on March 17 for "Spike tray head with replaceable wear plates" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,735, issued on March 17, was assigned to S.W.N.G. Inc. (Franklin Park, Ill.).

"Spike tray head with replaceable wear plates" was invented by Justin J. Pipol (Hartland, Wis.) and Daniel M. Henke (Brown Deer, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for tray heads and wear plates for tray heads for a railroad spike dispenser. An example wear plate set includes a first wear plate configured to couple to a first sloped surface of a first wall of a tray head. The first wear plate defines a first sloped wear edge along which a head of a railroad spike is to slide when the first wear plate is coupled to the f...