US Patent Issued to Laitram on Oct. 21 for "Conveyor transfer system" (Louisiana, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,224, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Conveyor transfer system" was invented by Benson Hall (Harahan, La.), Mitchell G. Pansano Jr. (Harahan, La.), Geoffrey Nicholas Bennett (Annapolis, Md.), Wayne A. Pertuit Jr. (Westwego, La.) and Bryant G. Ragan (Metairie, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer system comprising a carrier attached by fastening structure to a linear-motor shuttle driven by a linear-motor stator along a track. Tray packs or other conveyed objects are transferred between the carriers and infeed and outfeed conveyors by the carriers at transfer segments as the carriers advance alo...