US Patent Issued to Laitram on Dec. 2 for "Conveyor belt module including edge protrusion" (Mississippi, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,114, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Conveyor belt module including edge protrusion" was invented by Abraham L. Miller (Picayune, Miss.) and Richard M. Klein (Slidell, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor belt module includes a laterally-extending protrusion to prevent misorientation of the module during assembly. In a proper orientation, the laterally-extending protrusion extends into a recess of an adjacent conveyor belt module, with clearance between the protrusion and the nadir of the recess. Reversal of the conveyor belt module prevents the conveyor belt module from fitting into a row of mo...