US Patent Issued to Laitram on July 14 for "Conveyor belts and modules with slide bodies" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,659, issued on July 14, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Conveyor belts and modules with slide bodies" was invented by Casper Fedde Talsma (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular belt constructed of belt-edge modules that include slide bodies that slide along recesses in base module bodies. Slide cam surfaces on the slide bodies' hinge elements interact with base cam surfaces on the base module bodies' hinge elements of adjacent belt rows to move the slide bodies laterally as the belt articulates and de-articulates at its hinge joints. Optional clamp jaws on the base module bodies and the slide bodies ar...