US Patent Issued to JBT Marel on Sept. 1 for "Spiral conveyor multiple drive system" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,902, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to JBT Marel Corp. (Chicago).

"Spiral conveyor multiple drive system" was invented by Cory N. Osborne (North Ridgeville, Ohio), Carl J. Gavlik (Norwalk, Ohio) and Rami Toumi (Ardmore, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-drive system includes a plurality of drive motors, a variable frequency drive coupled to each drive motor, a drive head coupled to each drive motor, a drive ring couplable to the rotatable drum, the drive ring engageable with the plurality of drive heads, and a controller coupled to the plurality of variable frequency drives. A method of operating a multi-drive system includ...