ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,683, issued on March 24.
"Method of making positive drive conveyor belt" was invented by Edward T. Mol (Marne, Mich.) and Daniel Hendrickson (Cedar Springs, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing process converts a standard flat belt conveyor belt into a new, positively driven, pitch differential belt. A strip of thermoplastic material having a physical characteristic, such as melting temperature, that differs from the physical characteristic of the thermoplastic material comprising the conveyor belt, is applied to the drive side of a commercially available conveyor belt and machined to create a plurality of teeth, or ...