Patents by Inventor Piet ROMMELAERE

Piet ROMMELAERE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230242346
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a conveying system for conveying goods, the conveying system including a conveying belt, which includes conveying modules and pins, that: (1) is drivable about turning wheels along a closed path. (2) is provided with receiving cavities, in which the conveying belt is free from conveying modules and from pins along a length greater than the intermediate distance (t) between the pins, and (3) is designed to be continuous adjacent to the lateral sides of the receiving cavities. The conveying system further includes carriers, where each carrier: (1) is hingeably attached to a pin, on a front side of a receiving cavity, between a folded-down position and a folded-up position. (2) has a height greater than a said intermediate distance (t), and (3) extends entirely within the path of the conveying belt in the receiving cavity, between said turning wheels (7), at a discharge point (X) and in the folded-down position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Lieven DEMUYNCK, Piet ROMMELAERE
  • Patent number: 9877466
    Abstract: A fish-sorting system for sorting fish in a dragged fishing net (1), wherein the fish are actively sorted by means of a detection device (2, 3) which detects at least one size of a fish to be sorted; a processing unit which compares the size detected by the detection means (2, 3) with the desired size; and a sorting device (4) which retains fish in the fishing net (1) of a size greater than the desired size and which releases fish of a size smaller than the desired size from the fishing net (1) on the basis of the comparison between the detected size and the desired size carried out by the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KALAPA BVBA
    Inventor: Piet Rommelaere
  • Publication number: 20140259864
    Abstract: A fish-sorting system for sorting fish in a dragged fishing net (1), wherein the fish are actively sorted by means of a detection device (2, 3) which detects at least one size of a fish to be sorted; a processing unit which compares the size detected by the detection means (2, 3) with the desired size; and a sorting device (4) which retains fish in the fishing net (1) of a size greater than the desired size and which releases fish of a size smaller than the desired size from the fishing net (1) on the basis of the comparison between the detected size and the desired size carried out by the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: KALAPA BVBA
    Inventor: Piet ROMMELAERE