US Patent Issued to Laitram on Oct. 20 for "Short take-up belt conveyor" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,448, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Short take-up belt conveyor" was invented by Gilbert J. MacLachlan (Harahan, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt conveyor in which a positively driven short pitch conveyor belt is driven around a tight transfer nose roller by a drive arrangement in which a snub roller is positioned between the nose roller and a drive sprocket. A short take-up belt catenary depends directly from the belt's release point from the sprocket to provide back tension for effective sprocket-belt engagement."

The patent was filed on May 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/864,064.

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