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Article: Tennessee Inventor Develops Magnetic Mounting Assembly
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 19 -- William P. Schenk Jr. of Rockford, Tenn., has developed a magnet mounting assembly for use in detachably mounting a device to a rounded ferromagnetic surface of a liquid storage tank.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a magnet mounting assembly including a ferromagnetic support plate having a periphery, two opposite faces, and a ferromagnetic plate extension depending from the periphery, and a permanent magnet disposed on the support plate, in which the plate extension has a plurality of heights forming a plurality of legs. A terminal edge of the legs is engagable with a rounded magnetic surface at four non-contiguous locations ...