US Patent Issued to Laitram on July 15 for "Modular conveyor belt with moveable hinge rod retainer" (Louisiana, Mississippi, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,727, issued on July 15, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Modular conveyor belt with moveable hinge rod retainer" was invented by Gilbert J. MacLachlan (Harahan, La.), Abraham L Miller (Picayune, Miss.), Benson Hall (Harahan, La.), Krissie K. Zambrano (Colchester, Vt.), Matthew Vulpetti (Metairie, La.), Matthew A. Lignieres (Raceland, La.) and Angela Longo Marshall (Harahan, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor belt module (20) includes a movable hinge rod retainer (220) that can be opened and closed without tools. The movable hinge rod retainer facilitates opening and rejoining of the conveyor belt (100) at one o...