US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 8 for "Contacting cleaning system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,068, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Contacting cleaning system" was invented by Matthew Benning (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed conveyors for contact cleaning system include an inbound conveyor, and an outbound conveyor spaced apart from the inbound conveyor by a distance (A), wherein the inbound conveyor and/or the outbound conveyor is movable relative to the other of the inbound conveyor or the outbound conveyor between a retracted position in which the distance (A) is a first distance (Acleaning) and an extended position in which the distance (A) is l...