B65G 15/00
Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to
Official title: Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration (having load-conveying surfaces formed by interconnected longitudinal links B65G17/06)
B65G15/00 (Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to) appears on 3,099 US grants and 2,743 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 3,099
- Published applications
- 2,743
- Assignees
- 1,684
- Inventors
- 5,640
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 24 | 0 |
| 1977 | 17 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 20 | 0 |
| 1980 | 25 | 0 |
| 1981 | 18 | 0 |
| 1982 | 14 | 0 |
| 1983 | 14 | 0 |
| 1984 | 24 | 0 |
| 1985 | 29 | 0 |
| 1986 | 26 | 0 |
| 1987 | 44 | 0 |
| 1988 | 32 | 0 |
| 1989 | 42 | 0 |
| 1990 | 32 | 0 |
| 1991 | 37 | 0 |
| 1992 | 30 | 0 |
| 1993 | 28 | 0 |
| 1994 | 36 | 0 |
| 1995 | 34 | 0 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0 |
| 1997 | 47 | 0 |
| 1998 | 35 | 0 |
| 1999 | 52 | 0 |
| 2000 | 44 | 0 |
| 2001 | 42 | 9 |
| 2002 | 35 | 32 |
| 2003 | 32 | 31 |
| 2004 | 25 | 52 |
| 2005 | 34 | 41 |
| 2006 | 42 | 53 |
| 2007 | 39 | 52 |
| 2008 | 33 | 53 |
| 2009 | 33 | 66 |
| 2010 | 51 | 65 |
| 2011 | 46 | 53 |
| 2012 | 48 | 68 |
| 2013 | 40 | 124 |
| 2014 | 93 | 154 |
| 2015 | 134 | 156 |
| 2016 | 160 | 134 |
| 2017 | 163 | 198 |
| 2018 | 156 | 202 |
| 2019 | 182 | 165 |
| 2020 | 194 | 207 |
| 2021 | 161 | 159 |
| 2022 | 137 | 155 |
| 2023 | 139 | 162 |
| 2024 | 144 | 141 |
| 2025 | 123 | 122 |
| 2026 | 85 | 89 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 15/30Belts or like endless load-carriers1,457
- B65G 15/60Arrangements for supporting or guiding belts625
- B65G 15/10Comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or602
- B65G 15/22Comprising a series of co-operating units273
- B65G 15/08The load-carrying surface being formed by a concave or tubular belt262
- B65G 15/02Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to129
- B65G 15/28Conveyors with a load-conveying surface formed by a single flat belt, not115
- B65G 15/06Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to11
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for fabricating non-linear side wall conveyor belting112US 4,532,098 A1985
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- Modular article conveyor90US 4,014,428 A1977
- Conveyor system with lifting mechanism70US 5,985,029 ASpeedline Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Facility wide mixed mail sorting and/or sequencing system and components and methods thereof70US 8,457,781 B2Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2013