ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,368, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Cornelia Kill-Frech (Havixbeck, Germany).
"Releasable attachment of scraper modules" was invented by Martin Kiel (Recklinghausen, Germany) and Claus Weimann (Wetter, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scraper system for a conveyor system having a conveyor belt and a method for attaching a scraper module to a scraper system. The scraper system includes a system carrier and scraper modules for contacting the conveyor belt. The scraper modules are attached to a module carrier that extends on the system carrier parallel to the system carrier. The module carrier is releasably attached to the s...