US Patent Issued to NORDSTRONG EQUIPMENT on April 7 for "End bell for belt conveyor idler assembly" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,132, issued on April 7, was assigned to NORDSTRONG EQUIPMENT Ltd. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"End bell for belt conveyor idler assembly" was invented by Mohanad Suliman (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end bell includes a housing. The housing includes a bearing seat for a bearing positioned within an inner portion of the housing and includes a grounding groove for a grounding wire positioned along an outer portion of the housing. A method for attaching an end bell to a belt conveyor idler includes inserting a grounding wire into a grounding groove of the end bell, inserting a bearing into the bearing seat, and inserting t...