US Patent Issued to UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING on Aug. 11 for "Header transport with steerable walking tandem axles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,080, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNVERFERTH MANUFACTURING Co. INC. (Kalida, Ohio).

"Header transport with steerable walking tandem axles" was invented by Michael J. Hilvers (Kalida, Ohio), Shawn Gerdeman (Kalida, Ohio) and Joshua J. Inkrott (Kalida, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header transport steering system is provided that allows the tongue of the header transport to pivot and translates the movement of the tongue to all of the wheels of the header transport. Front steering linkages are coupled to the tongue, and are configured to oscillate front wheels in response to rotation of the tongue. Walking tandem beams a...