US Patent Issued to Woodpeckers on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for securing a sawblade" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,557, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Woodpeckers LLC (Strongsville, Ohio).

"Method and apparatus for securing a sawblade" was invented by Richard Martin Hummel (Columbia Station, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for retaining a saw blade set on an arbor. The apparatus may be an integrated dado nut assembly and may have a dado nut, a removable dado washer and a lockring. The dado nut is configured to be rotatably slidingly connected to the dado washer while providing for an axial force to be transmitted from the dado nut being rotated on the arbor through the dado washer to an outer blade of the saw bla...