US Patent Issued to Steel Equipment Specialists on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for rebuilding a spreader beam" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,159, issued on April 7, was assigned to Steel Equipment Specialists LLC (Alliance, Ohio).

"Apparatus and method for rebuilding a spreader beam" was invented by John W. Sanor (Kensington, Ohio), William Jacob Eyer IV (Minerva, Ohio), David D. Gingerich (Massillon, Ohio) and David J. Render (Alliance, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spreader beam and related method provide a simplified repair or rebuilding capability for wear parts of the spreader beam. The disclosed spreader beam includes removable sheave nests containing sheaves, which are the wear parts in a spreader beam. The disclosed spreader beam saves time and costs since...