ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,878, issued on June 17, was assigned to REXNORD FLATTOP EUROPE B.V. ('s-Gravenzande, Netherlands).
"Curve conveyor and use of a conveyor module" was invented by Cornelis Hendrik Mijndert Menke (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curve conveyor (1), comprising a guiding track extending along a circular arc (2), which guides a conveying part (3) of an endless conveyor (4), the conveying part comprising a plurality of chain strands (5, 6, 7) which with a common center of curvature (C) are spaced apart at an equal radial pitch, and a drive (8) cooperating with the chain strands, which during operation leads the chain s...