US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools on Sept. 9 for "Wear support assemblies for raise boring tools" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,665, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools AB (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Wear support assemblies for raise boring tools" was invented by Anders Lindblom (Sandviken, Sweden) and Joona Loikkanen (Sandviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear support assembly includes a wear pad arranged on top of a support plate, wherein the support plate has a lower surface for connecting to a raise boring tool and both the wear pad and the support plate have at least one hole for receiving a bolt to connect the wear pad to the support plate. Also, a raise boring tool for raise boring operations includes a ream...