ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,480, issued on July 1, was assigned to LA PROTEC SRL (San Giovanni in Croce, Italy).
"Bellows protection adapted to connect adjacent trolleys of a conveyor belt" was invented by Riccardo Viola (Parma, Italy) and Tommaso Viola (San Giovanni In Croce, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a bellows protection connecting adjacent trolleys of a conveyor belt along an object transport line, where the conveyor belt includes trolleys movable along tracks and connected to one another by connectors allowing their reciprocal rotation at least around a vertical or horizontal axis. The device includes: a pleated covering positioned be...