US Patent Issued to SELDEN MAST on May 5 for "Crank arrangement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,658, issued on May 5, was assigned to SELDEN MAST AB (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

"Crank arrangement" was invented by Mathias Lindstrom (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Bjorn Adiels (Ytterby, Sweden) and William Holt (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crank arrangement (100) for operating a winch having an elongate crank arm (10), a hollow driving head (29) having an external engagement profile, a handle part (40) and a locking plate (25) arranged at an outer end of an actuator element rotatably taken up within the hollow driving head (29). Hinged lever arms (11A, 11B) extend in parallel on external opposite side walls of the...