ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,728, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ramsey Products Corp. (Belmont, N.C.).
"Flat top conveyor chain" was invented by David Brian Holcomb (Belmont, N.C.), Charles Stone Stalvey (Belmont, N.C.) and Philippe Alex Rojzman (Belmont, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor chain having a plurality of toothed links and a plurality of non-toothed links, where the toothed and non-toothed links each include a link body, each having two pin openings for receiving connecting pins adapted for being inserted into the pin openings with interconnecting links to join the links together to form a chain link conveyor. Both the toothed and th...