US Patent Issued to ITREC on Jan. 20 for "Recirculating cylindrical rollers assembly for supporting an object on a rail, e.g. in a pile holding system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,198, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).

"Recirculating cylindrical rollers assembly for supporting an object on a rail, e.g. in a pile holding system" was invented by Eric Romeijn (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Hendrikus Jacobus Weterings (Schiedam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for supporting an object on a rail comprises a load bearing housing and an endless chain of steel cylindrical rollers arranged for recirculating along a closed path. The assembly comprises an elastically compressible resilient insert which is sandwiched between a steel central body and a steel raceway ...