Patents Examined by Mark A. Deuble
  • Patent number: 10968041
    Abstract: A conveyor belt includes a cut and gouge resistant cover layer defining a load carrying surface, a pulley layer disposed parallel to the cover layer, and a carcass comprising one or more reinforcement layers, where the carcass is disposed between the cover layer and the pulley layer. The cover layer is formed by curing an admixture including a rubber component, a sulfur curative, and an additive including oxidized high density polyethylene, maleated high density polyethylene, and/or non-functionalized high density polyethylene. The rubber component includes styrene-butadiene rubber and natural rubber. The cut and gouge resistant cover layer has a cut resistance and gouge resistance value of 1.00 grams or less, after the admixture is cured, and the cut and gouge resistant cover layer has an abrasion resistance of value of 110 or less after the admixture is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Guangzhuo Rong, Thomas George Burrowes
  • Patent number: 10954786
    Abstract: A feeder is described for the conveyance of material such as overburden or mineral from a working site, the feeder comprising a feed device having a material receiving end having a material receiving apron suitable for receiving material such as overburden or mineral at a working site; a material discharge end distal of the material receiving end; an endless conveyor disposed between the material receiving apron and the discharge end so as in use to cause material received at the material receiving apron to be conveyed to the material discharge end; a chassis supporting the feed device; a transport carriage supporting the chassis and adapted to cause the feeder to be movable across a surface for deployment in use. A system A system and method for the movement of material from a working site for example via transport trucks are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MMD Design & Consultancy Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Pearson
  • Patent number: 10954077
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyor belt cleaning apparatus, and more particularly, to a conveyor belt cleaning apparatus capable of cleaning a conveyor belt by operating in a pneumatic manner using compressed air without using electricity. The conveyor belt cleaning apparatus uses the rodless cylinder so as to enable the steam spray nozzle to perform a reciprocating motion and make it easy to adjust a speed of the steam spray nozzle and adjust a spray range for an object to be cleaned. Further, the conveyor belt cleaning apparatus is structured such that a width in a left-right direction and a height in an up-down direction may be adjusted, such that the conveyor belt cleaning apparatus may be installed on conveyor belts having various sizes, thereby ensuring diversity of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SJE CORPORATION, LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-Moog Yoo
  • Patent number: 10954074
    Abstract: The various embodiments of the present invention disclose an apparatus, modular tracking unit and a method for conveyor belt alignment. The apparatus provides alignment sustenance and wide-angle coverage. The apparatus includes a plurality of modular tracking units, a linking mechanism including a connecting rope passing through a link of each of the modular tracking units and a pair of guide rollers. The invention triggers the pair of guided rollers on misalignment of the conveyor belt from original path. The guided roller activates the linking mechanism to move the modular tracking units in tandem for re-aligning the conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Manoj Joseph Kallarackal, Harikrishnan R Nair, Moses D, Manimaran E
  • Patent number: 10947047
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are air-supported belt conveyors and independent conveyor subsystems that are selectively and independently designed to meet requirements that can change along the length of a conveyor, as well as from conveyor to conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: BRUKS ROCKWOOD, LLC
    Inventors: Francis J. Warmoth, Bengt Axel Nilsson, Steven B. Bennett
  • Patent number: 10941006
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical diverter for a conveyor system having a lower conveyor track and an upper conveyor track, wherein the vertical diverter is provided and designed for vertically connecting the two conveyor tracks, and the vertical diverter has a lower diverter track and an upper diverter track. The vertical diverter is characterized in that the lower diverter track is shorter than the upper diverter track, that the lower diverter track is provided and designed to be lowered at least at one end in order to make room for the connection of the end of the upper diverter track to be lowered, and that the upper diverter track is provided and designed to be lowered at least at one end, and that the lowered end of the upper diverter track rests where the unlowered end of the lower diverter track previously rested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TRANSNORM SYSTEM GMBH
    Inventors: Kai-Ulrich Ventz, Rene Schaellig
  • Patent number: 10934098
    Abstract: The present invention includes conveying and sorting systems utilizing a plurality of continuous rails which support a plurality of sliding pucks that are urged forward using a plurality of sprocket wheels, and which utilize magnetically operated activation components for causing produce to be selectively dropped from cups carried by the pucks into sorting bins. The structures for the conveying and actuating components of the systems have smooth external surfaces reducing potential contamination by bacteria, contaminants and debris, thereby making them easily accessible for cleaning, and allowing for longer continuous operation times and higher efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Lorin Reed
  • Patent number: 10934102
    Abstract: An order-picking installation for the order picking of items, in particular items transported in a hanging state, includes at least one supply station having a plurality of parallel supply locations, by which the items to be picked are supplied into the order-picking installation, and at least one dispatch station having a plurality of parallel dispatch locations, by which the picked items are discharged for dispatch, wherein at least one interim store is provided, for the order picking of the items, between the supply station and the dispatch station. The interim store includes a dynamic store for the interim storage of the items provided for order picking as well as a retrieval store, arranged downstream of the dynamic store, and intended for storing items which have been removed from the dynamic store and pre-sorted in the process, the dynamic store and the retrieval store arranged within a common circulatory conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FERAG AG
    Inventors: Sergio Sigrist, Francisco Javier López
  • Patent number: 10934095
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a modular belt having two or more longitudinal belt sections. Each belt section includes a traction element having a cord and a plurality of drive elements attached to the cord. The drive elements are spaced apart along a length of the cord. The belt section further includes a plurality of belt plates. Each belt plate is removably attached to a corresponding drive element of the traction element. The belt section may comprise at least one additional traction element to which each belt plate is attached. In this way, each belt plate may be attached to two or more traction elements. The modular belt includes two or more connectors, wherein each connector is configured to longitudinally couple two belt sections in order to form the modular belt as an endless belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Habasit AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Elsner, Stefan Simmendinger, Markus Vetter
  • Patent number: 10926978
    Abstract: Provided is a man conveyor apparatus (1), including: steps (17) connected in an endless manner; two or more drive motors (4a and 4b), each being configured to circulate the steps (17); a load detection device (10) configured to detect a load of the drive motors (4a and 4b); and a controller (11) configured to control an operation and stop of each of the drive motors (4a and 4b), wherein the controller (11) increases or decreases the number of the drive motors to be driven in accordance with a value of the load detected by the load detection device (10) and changes a drive motor to be driven as a main motor each time the number of drive motors to be driven is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ippei Kimura
  • Patent number: 10925215
    Abstract: A feederhouse conveyor system for an agricultural harvesting machine is provided. The feederhouse conveyor system includes a power transmitting system. The power transmitting system includes first rollers, second rollers, and power transmitting bands. The power transmitting bands are configured to each transmit power between each of the first rollers and the second rollers. The feederhouse conveyor system also includes rigid cross members, configured to each attach near each end to at least one of the power transmitting bands, and flexible cross members configured to each attach near each end to at least one of the power transmitting bands. The centerlines which extend through the rigid cross members and the flexible cross members are parallel. The mat attaches to the flexible cross members by a pocket in the mat through which the flexible cross members extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: David W. Peters, Corwin M. Puryk, Michael T. Meschke, Adam J. Donohoe
  • Patent number: 10920851
    Abstract: The subject disclosure provides a draper belt assembly for an agricultural harvester that includes a draper belt and a zipper assembly along a length of the draper belt. The zipper assembly includes a first zipper track, a second zipper track complementary to the first zipper track, and a slider releasably connectable to the first zipper track and the second zipper track. The draper belt assembly further includes a lock for releasably securing the zipper assembly in a fixed position and a seal covering an upper surface of the first and second zipper tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joel Cook, Benjamin Kemmerer, Herbert Farley
  • Patent number: 10919708
    Abstract: A system comprises a track surface and includes a plurality of motors. The system may further include a plurality of chains. Each chain may be coupled to a motor and may be disposed along a length of the track surface. A plurality of pushers may further be included, with each pusher coupled to a chain of the plurality of chains. In some examples, a controller may be coupled to the plurality of motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CONFLEX PACKAGING, INC.
    Inventors: William J. Morrisey, Jr., Mark Lorenz
  • Patent number: 10913614
    Abstract: A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, Christopher Geyer, Thomas Koletschka, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 10913616
    Abstract: In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Mark Steven Pettinga
  • Patent number: 10913615
    Abstract: A processing system including a singulation system is disclosed. The singulation system includes a conveying system for moving objects to be sorted from a source area along a first direction, a detection system for detecting objects at the conveying system, and for selecting certain selected objects for removal from the conveying system, and a removal system for removing the certain selected objects from the conveying system for providing a singulated stream of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, Christopher Geyer, Thomas Koletschka, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 10906753
    Abstract: A cyclic type layered storage and output equipment includes a first pick-and-place device and a second pick-and-place device set at two opposite sides of an automatic material distribution and storage machine for delivering drill bits for detection and storing the detected drill bits by using horizontal transportation and layered storage technology. It can reduce the equipment space. After the overall inspection is completed, all the stored drill bits are transferred to another processing equipment together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TCTM (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Chia-Li Tao, Chien-Hung Fan
  • Patent number: 10906743
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a roller and a locking method thereof. The roller includes a main body, a first groove provided on an inner surface of the main body, and a first elastic component fitted with the first groove; wherein a through hole for receiving and fixing a shaft is provided on the first elastic component. The present disclosure can be used to lock shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan Li, Yue Chen, Fei Zhang, Zhigang Song
  • Patent number: 10899547
    Abstract: A coupling block is provided to dynamically adjust a difference in height between a first support structure and a second support structure attached to a conveyor frame. The coupling block includes at least one rotating cam attached to the coupling block. The rotating cam is actuated to move at least a portion of the coupling block about an axis to compensate for a height difference between the first support structure and the second support structure. A cam adjuster is also accessible from an outer face of the of the conveyor frame to change a direction of rotation of the at least one rotating cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Roth, John Williams Rugh
  • Patent number: 10899553
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for restricting access to articles on a conveyor. The apparatus includes a locking mechanism configured to move via a plurality of actuators, wherein at least two of the actuators move the locking mechanism in differing directions, and also configured to prevent removal of at least one article from the conveyor while in a locking position against the conveyor, wherein at least one of the actuators is configured to move the locking mechanism into the locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: White Conveyors Inc.
    Inventors: Angel F Hierrezuelo, John Moore, William Keith Skidmore