Patents by Inventor Harry Van Der Eerden

Harry Van Der Eerden 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: 20240002156
    Abstract: There is presented a conveyor belt module (10) with first and second sets of eye parts for allowing connecting the conveyor belt module to a like conveyor belt module (10II) via a rod (41), said conveyor belt module being suitable for a side flexing modular conveyor belt (100), wherein in a cross-sectional plane intersecting an outermost eye part and being orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the conveyor belt module the conveyor belt module comprises portions of material having positions which on both sides of a plane comprising the longitudinal axis and intersecting both first and second eye parts are present on both sides of axis through both of the first and second eye parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: Marel Poultry B.V., Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S
    Inventors: Harry Van Der Eerden, Germ Buter, Kenneth Westergaard Andersen
  • Publication number: 20230406643
    Abstract: There is presented a conveyor belt module for a side flexing modular conveyor belt wherein a width ratio between a longitudinal surface width and a maximum width of eye parts placed centrally along a longitudinal is smaller than a width ratio for eye parts placed on both sides of the centrally placed eye parts. There is furthermore presented a modular conveyor belt, a conveyor belt system, a method for conveying one or more elements and use of modular conveyor belt for conveying one or more elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: Marel Poultry B.V., Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S
    Inventors: Harry Van Der Eerden, Germ Buter, Kenneth Westergaard Andersen
  • Publication number: 20230356952
    Abstract: There is presented an attachment unit (60) comprising a flight part (66) and an attachment part comprising first and second sets of protrusions where each of the protrusions is extending away from the flight part (66) in the first transverse direction, and where each of the first set of protrusions and the second set of protrusions comprises one or more protrusions, which each has one or more protuberances and/or cavities each extending in a longitudinal direction and/or a second transverse direction, and wherein the first set of protrusions is off-set (80) along the second transverse direction (64).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicants: Marel Poultry B.V., Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S
    Inventors: Harry Van Der Eerden, Germ Buter, Kenneth Westergaard Andersen
  • Patent number: 4899421
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing the fecal matter from the rectal cavity of slaughtered poultry in a poultry processing line, prior to evisceration, including a hollow probe for insertion into and extraction form the rectal cavity, the movements thereof being controlled in such a manner that, after the poultry is positioned, the probe is inserted into the rectal cavity of the poultry while pulling a pulsating vacuum and then extracted while pulling a continuous vacuum thus removing the fecal matter in a two-stage process. A water flush for the probe is provided to thoroughly clean the probe of fecal matter with a continuous stream of water near the back of the apparatus prior to automatically engaging other oncoming birds at the fecal removal apparatus. As an alternate embodiment, the vacuum can be combined with a water flush to facilitate the removal of the fecal matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Stork-Gamco, Inc.
    Inventor: Harry Van Der Eerden