ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,514, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Cooling attachment for a work machine" was invented by Nina Uppenkamp (Viersen, Germany) and Axel Rossbach (Korschenbroich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling attachment can be releasably fastened to a work machine, which has a shaft in which a rod-like tool is guided with a rotary or hammering action and exits the shaft at a free end. The cooling attachment has a housing that encloses the work machine and in particular the shaft thereof and the tool that exits it, the latter only partially. Formed within the housing is a first cooling channe...