US Patent Issued to A. G. Stacker on March 31 for "Upper conveyor deck having at least one diverted belt section and a scrap deflector at the diverted belt section and conveyor including the upper conveyor deck" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,960, issued on March 31, was assigned to A. G. Stacker Inc. (Weyers Cave, Va.).

"Upper conveyor deck having at least one diverted belt section and a scrap deflector at the diverted belt section and conveyor including the upper conveyor deck" was invented by Dalton Hege (Weyers Cave, Va.), Joseph Wunder (Lexington, Va.), Robert Knupp (Staunton, Va.) and Eric Stempihar (Rockingham, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper conveyor deck includes a plurality of belts each supported by an upstream end pulley and a downstream end pulley which belts are configured to be driven along a closed path having an interior such that a lower run...