ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,922, issued on March 3, was assigned to TDS GMBH (Dortmund, Germany).
"Tensioner of a tightener for a chain, strap, cable or the like" was invented by Tom Stromberg (Dortmund, Germany) and Nils Stiepermann (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a tensioning device for tensioning tensioning means such as chains, straps, ropes, threaded rods or the like, which is fitted with at least one tubular tensioning nut (4a, 4b) and at least one threaded bolt (2) which is inserted into the tensioning nut (4a, 4b) and interacting therewith. According to the invention, the tensioning nut (4a, 4b) is divided long...