US Patent Issued to Habasit on Aug. 12 for "Conveyor belt carcass containing one or more impregnated non-woven fabric layers" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,629, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Habasit AG (Reinach, Switzerland).

"Conveyor belt carcass containing one or more impregnated non-woven fabric layers" was invented by Brent Whitehead (Bacup, Great Britain), Michael Tyler (Harrogate, Great Britain) and Marshall Wright (Ljung, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt carcass (1) comprising one, two, or more than two impregnated layers (21, 22, 23, 24, 25); characterised in that i) each impregnated layer (21, 22, 23, 24, 25) comprises, or consists essentially of, a non-woven fabric (3, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308) and an impregnation material (4, 401, 402, 403, 404...