ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,886, issued on June 17, was assigned to Flexible Steel Lacing Co. (Downers Grove, Ill.).
"Conveyor transfer guards" was invented by Mark Steven Pettinga (Hudsonville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and...