Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
Wayne A. Pertuit, JR. 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).
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Publication number: 20240017938Abstract: A transfer system comprising a carrier attached by fastening structure to a linear-motor shuttle driven by a linear-motor stator along a track. Tray packs or other conveyed objects are transferred between the carriers and infeed and outfeed conveyors by the carriers at transfer segments as the carriers advance along the track.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Benson Hall, Mitchell G. Pansano, Jr., Geoffrey Nicholas Bennett, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr., Bryant G. Ragan
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Patent number: 10807803Abstract: A hygienic magnetic tray and conveyor. The low-profile tray includes a forcer sandwiched between an article-supporting top and an opposite bottom. The top is made of hygienic material, and the bottom can be made of a low-friction material. The tray is propelled along a guide surface on an enclosure housing stator coils supported in a conveyor frame. The stator forms a linear motor with the forcer in the tray. Roller balls protruding from the bottom of one version of the tray provide low-friction rolling contact with the guide surface. Various disposal systems provide escape routes for removing fluids and debris from the guide surface of the stator enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200156875Abstract: A hygienic magnetic tray and conveyor. The low-profile tray includes a forcer sandwiched between an article-supporting top and an opposite bottom. The top is made of hygienic material, and the bottom can be made of a low-friction material. The tray is propelled along a guide surface on an enclosure housing stator coils supported in a conveyor frame. The stator forms a linear motor with the forcer in the tray. Roller balls protruding from the bottom of one version of the tray provide low-friction rolling contact with the guide surface. Various disposal systems provide escape routes for removing fluids and debris from the guide surface of the stator enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Patent number: 9359141Abstract: Components of a conveyor system designed to facilitate tight transfer of products onto and off a positively-driven, low tension conveyor belt. The conveyor system includes a tension amplifier in a returnway of a conveyor belt circuit for selectively increasing tension in the conveyor belt prior to infeed without increasing the low tension in the returnway prior to the tension amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael Hendrik DeGroot, Daniel Robert Hendrickson, James R. Honeycutt, Jr., Brian A. Trapani, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr., Paul E. St. Pierre, Philipp J. Hortig
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Publication number: 20160107840Abstract: Components of a conveyor system designed to facilitate tight transfer of products onto and off a positively-driven, low tension conveyor belt. The conveyor system includes a tension amplifier in a returnway of a conveyor belt circuit for selectively increasing tension in the conveyor belt prior to infeed without increasing the low tension in the returnway prior to the tension amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Michael Hendrik DeGroot, Daniel Robert Hendrickson, James R. Honeycutt, JR., Brian A. Trapani, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR., Paul E. St. Pierre, Philipp J. Hortig
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Patent number: 9242801Abstract: Components of a conveyor system designed to facilitate tight transfer of products onto and off a positively-driven, low tension conveyor belt. The conveyor system includes a tension amplifier in a returnway of a conveyor belt circuit for selectively increasing tension in the conveyor belt prior to infeed without increasing the low tension in the returnway prior to the tension amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael Hendrik DeGroot, Daniel Robert Hendrickson, James R. Honeycutt, Jr., Brian A. Trapani, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr., Paul E. St. Pierre
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Patent number: 9162824Abstract: A belt conveyor having an electromagnetic drive comprising a rotor and a stator sealed in separate nonmagnetic and nonconductive housings. The rotor is mounted to a drive shaft. A drive drum or drive sprockets supported on the shaft have peripheral drive surfaces that engage a conveyor belt. The rotor is coaxial with the peripheral drive surface—either sealed within the drum or sprockets or housed on the shaft axially spaced from the drive surface. The rotor may include conductive rotor bars or permanent magnets. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor across a narrow gap and produces a traveling magnetic flux wave across the gap that causes the rotor and the peripheral drive surface to rotate and drive the conveyor belt.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Kevin W. Guernsey, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150251853Abstract: A belt conveyor having an electromagnetic drive comprising a rotor and a stator sealed in separate nonmagnetic and nonconductive housings. The rotor is mounted to a drive shaft. A drive drum or drive sprockets supported on the shaft have peripheral drive surfaces that engage a conveyor belt. The rotor is coaxial with the peripheral drive surface—either sealed within the drum or sprockets or housed on the shaft axially spaced from the drive surface. The rotor may include conductive rotor bars or permanent magnets. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor across a narrow gap and produces a traveling magnetic flux wave across the gap that causes the rotor and the peripheral drive surface to rotate and drive the conveyor belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Kevin W. Guernsey, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
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Patent number: 9065310Abstract: A belt conveyor having an electromagnetic drive comprising a rotor and a stator sealed in separate nonmagnetic and nonconductive housings. The rotor is mounted to a drive shaft. A drive drum or drive sprockets supported on the shaft have peripheral drive surfaces that engage a conveyor belt. The rotor is coaxial with the peripheral drive surface—either sealed within the drum or sprockets or housed on the shaft axially spaced from the drive surface. The rotor may include conductive rotor bars or permanent magnets. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor across a narrow gap and produces a traveling magnetic flux wave across the gap that causes the rotor and the peripheral drive surface to rotate and drive the conveyor belt.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Kevin W. Guernsey, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Patent number: 8905227Abstract: A cleanable belt conveyor and a method for making a cleanable belt conveyor having an underside sculpted with concave indentations to match the shape and positions of the elongated support rails forming a carryway. The support rails may be circular in cross section, and the indentations may be complementary portions of circular cylinders to receive the rails along an extended contact area.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventor: Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Patent number: 8720668Abstract: A conveyor comprising a conveyor belt having rollers with metallic or magnetic rotors. A magnet or metallic element next to the conveyor belt is positioned to rotate the rotor. A magnetic field produced by the magnet or by the magnetic rotor rotates the rollers as they pass the magnetic field or as the magnetic field is changed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Brien G. Rau, Jason Lagneaux, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140116856Abstract: Components of a conveyor system designed to facilitate tight transfer of products onto and off a positively-driven, low tension conveyor belt. The conveyor system includes a tension amplifier in a returnway of a conveyor belt circuit for selectively increasing tension in the conveyor belt prior to infeed without increasing the low tension in the returnway prior to the tension amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael Hendrik DeGroot, Daniel Robert Hendrickson, James R. Honeycutt, JR., Brian A. Trapani, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR., Paul E. St. Pierre
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Publication number: 20140110227Abstract: A belt conveyor having an electromagnetic drive comprising a rotor and a stator sealed in separate nonmagnetic and nonconductive housings. The rotor is mounted to a drive shaft. A drive drum or drive sprockets supported on the shaft have peripheral drive surfaces that engage a conveyor belt. The rotor is coaxial with the peripheral drive surface—either sealed within the drum or sprockets or housed on the shaft axially spaced from the drive surface. The rotor may include conductive rotor bars or permanent magnets. The stator is spaced apart from the rotor across a narrow gap and produces a traveling magnetic flux wave across the gap that causes the rotor and the peripheral drive surface to rotate and drive the conveyor belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Kevin W. Guernsey, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
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Publication number: 20130341163Abstract: A cleanable belt conveyor and a method for making a cleanable belt conveyor having an underside sculpted with concave indentations to match the shape and positions of the elongated support rails forming a carryway. The support rails may be circular in cross section, and the indentations may be complementary portions of circular cylinders to receive the rails along an extended contact area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: LAITRAM, L.L.C.Inventor: Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
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Publication number: 20130313080Abstract: A conveyor comprising a conveyor belt having rollers with metallic or magnetic rotors. A magnet or metallic element next to the conveyor belt is positioned to rotate the rotor. A magnetic field produced by the magnet or by the magnetic rotor rotates the rollers as they pass the magnetic field or as the magnetic field is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Brien G. Rau, Jason Lagneaux, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.
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Patent number: 8511460Abstract: A modular conveyor belt and method provides a conveyor belt having rollers with metallic or magnetic rotors. A magnet or metallic element next to the conveyor belt is positioned to rotate the rotor. A magnetic field produced by the magnet or by the magnetic rotor rotates the rollers as they pass the magnetic field or as the magnetic field is changed. In one embodiment, the magnetic field is in the form of one or more switched reluctance motors.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Brien G. Rau, Jason Lagneaux, Wayne A. Pertuit, Jr.
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Publication number: 20100230245Abstract: A modular conveyor belt and method provides a conveyor belt having rollers with metallic or magnetic rotors. A magnet or metallic element next to the conveyor belt is positioned to rotate the rotor. A magnetic field produced by the magnet or by the magnetic rotor rotates the rollers as they pass the magnetic field or as the magnetic field is changed. In one embodiment, the magnetic field is in the form of one or more switched reluctance motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: LAITRAM, L.L.C.Inventors: Bryant G. Ragan, Brien G. Rau, Jason Lagneaux, Wayne A. Pertuit, JR.