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Article: Michigan Inventors Develop Article Conveyor Skewed Slat Control System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 5, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Thomas B. Smith and Bradley D. Baldwin, both of Rockford, Mich., and Robert W. Gallatin of Grand Rapids, Mich., have developed a Skewed slat control system for article conveyor.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skew detection and correction system, and method of correcting skew, in a conveyor system having an endless web that is propelled in a longitudinal direction, includes providing a skew detector and determining if at least some of the cross members of the web are non-perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and providing a differential lubricant application. The lubricant applicator is responsive to the skew detector and applies a ...