US Patent Issued to Marel Poultry, Ammeraal Beltech Modular on Sept. 23 for "Attachment unit for conveyor belt module" (Danish, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,048, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Marel Poultry B.V. (AV Boxmeer, Netherlands) and Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S (Vejle, Denmark).

"Attachment unit for conveyor belt module" was invented by Harry Van Der Eerden (AV Boxmeer, Netherlands), Germ Buter (Vejle, Denmark) and Kenneth Westergaard Andersen (Vejle, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment unit comprising a flight part and an attachment part comprising first and second sets of protrusions wherein each of the protrusions extends away from the flight part in the first transverse direction, and wherein each of the first set of protrusions and the second set of p...