US Patent Issued to Oakwood Industries on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus for manufacturing with overhead conveyor and pinch conveyor" (Missouri, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,222, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oakwood Industries LLC (Memphis, Mo.).

"Apparatus for manufacturing with overhead conveyor and pinch conveyor" was invented by Alvin M. Musser Jr. (Memphis, Mo.), Gerald Oberholtzer (Rutledge, Mo.) and Kent Lee Nolt (Wellman, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use in manufacturing includes a support structure, a loading conveyor, an overhead conveyor, and a pinch conveyor. The apparatus provides for an auto-return of an item being processed in a manufacturing process by conveying the item upward with the loading conveyor, conveying the item across the support structure with th...