ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,248, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Flexible Steel Lacing Co. (Downers Grove, Ill.).
"Conveyor belt cleaner blade wear monitoring system" was invented by Brett E. DeVries (Comstock Park, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus are provided for monitoring one or more characteristics of a scraper blade of a belt cleaner system. The system and apparatus may be configured to monitor the amount of wear of the scraper blade. The system and apparatus may include a self-contained wear monitoring unit which includes one or more sensors for detecting scraper blade wear. The sensor may be a wear sensor including one or m...