ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,521, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Qlar Europe GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Chain link, kit comprising a chain link and conveyor plate, and chain conveyor" was invented by Andreas Schuetz (Darmstadt, Germany) and Stefan Goetz (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chain link for a plate link chain of a chain conveyor, having two disk-shaped side walls that are spaced apart from one another in parallel in a transverse direction of the chain link and fixedly connected to one another. The side walls each include a rabbet having a force transmission surface oriented essentially perpendicularly with respect to a longitud...