US Patent Issued to FLEXLINK on Sept. 16 for "Conveyor chain link and conveyor chain comprising such a chain link and conveyor system" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,679, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FLEXLINK AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Conveyor chain link and conveyor chain comprising such a chain link and conveyor system" was invented by Gianluca Ferlini (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conveyor chain link (1) provided with an upper body (2) and a lower body (3), where the chain link (1) is provided with an upper bearing surface (17), a front end (4) and a rear end (5), where the rear end (5) is provided with a first leg (6) and a second leg (7) arranged spaced apart from each other with a distance corresponding to the width of the front end (4), where the chain link (1) is ...