Timothy Joseph Hicks
Engineering at Kathleen Dr, Ponchatoula, LA

6138819, Oct 31, 2000

Jun 9, 1998

9/093894

David W. Bogle - Destrehan LA
Timothy J. Hicks - Ponchatoula LA
Sandra A. Christiana - Harahan LA
Paul L. Horton - Metairie LA
Richard J. Sofranec - Metairie LA
Christopher G. Greve - Covington LA

The Laitram Corporation - Harahan LA

B65G 4774

198635

A sectional article transfer assembly for receiving articles stripped from the conveying surface of a moving conveyor belt. The article transfer assembly includes, as a first piece, a transfer edge member having a base portion lying on and supported by a support frame and a belt-abutting portion that extends from the base portion to closely abut the conveying surface of a conveyor belt as it passes around a sprocket. The belt-abutting portion can have fingers or a beveled straight edge, for example. The transfer edge member mates with a second piece, a transfer plate member, which has a recessed portion that overlaps and mates with the base portion of the transfer edge member and a flat top article-transfer plate continuous and coplanar with an upper surface of the transfer edge member to form an extension of the conveying surface of the belt along which articles arc conveyed. In preferred versions, the two pieces can each be made of different materials, such as a durable material for the transfer edge member and a low-friction material for the transfer plate member. Other combinations of materials can be used to adapt the characteristics of the sectional transfer assembly to different operational demands.

5850902, Dec 22, 1998

Apr 8, 1997

8/838320

Timothy J. Hicks - Ponchatoula LA
David W. Bogle - River Ridge LA
Scott J. Sirgo - Covington LA
Christopher G. Greve - Covington LA

The Laitram Corporation - Harahan LA

B65G 4726

198457

This invention provides improvements in modular links and conveyor belt systems for transferring moving articles from one conveyor belt to another disposed at ninety degrees. Thus a transferring belt has specially constructed links with two integrally formed portions across the width, one for pivotable connection in a moving belt configuration and the other specially constructed with features for more effective transfer of articles from the edge of a transfer belt to a moving belt disposed at ninety degrees which excludes inter-link pivoting structure. Thus with specially formed belt edge transfer modular links, a planar edge transfer platform is formed by the upper surfaces of a series of link end and belt edge planar conveyance surfaces located on the respective belt links. The lower link edge surfaces are tapered to reside in non-contact position over the ramp of the receptacle belt formed typically by a sprocket wheel at a position where the planar conveyance surfaces on the two belts are contiguous and co-planar. The link ends are constructed for encountering the dynamic movement conditions and loading stresses encountered when the belt edge is transversed by moving articles traveling from one belt to the other.

7731010, Jun 8, 2010

Jun 4, 2007

12/301271

Darrell E. Kissee - Kenner LA, US
Timothy J. Hicks - Ponchatoula LA, US

Laitram, L.L.C. - Harahan LA

B65G 47/10

19837009, 19845702, 198411

A conveyor () comprising at least one belt () defining an outer conveying surface divided into at least two laterally offset regions in which the rollers () in one region rotate in a first direction and the rollers () in a second region rotate in a second direction as the conveyor belt () advances in a conveying direction. The rollers () rotate by rolling along roller-engagement surfaces () underlying the conveyor belt along a carryway. The rollers rotating in the first direction rotate with a velocity component in the conveying direction () different from the velocity component in the conveying direction of the rollers rotating in the second direction. An article positioned simultaneously atop rollers in both regions is rotated by the rotation of the rollers as the conveyor belt advances.