B65G 47/841
Devices having endless travelling belts or chains equipped with article-engaging elements
Official title: {Devices having endless travelling belts or chains equipped with article-engaging elements}
B65G47/841 (Devices having endless travelling belts or chains equipped with article-engaging elements) appears on 573 US grants and 473 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 573
- Published applications
- 473
- Assignees
- 312
- Inventors
- 993
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2001 | 7 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 6 |
| 2003 | 12 | 16 |
| 2004 | 10 | 11 |
| 2005 | 17 | 23 |
| 2006 | 12 | 10 |
| 2007 | 9 | 16 |
| 2008 | 11 | 17 |
| 2009 | 16 | 11 |
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| 2011 | 6 | 13 |
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| 2013 | 14 | 23 |
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| 2018 | 14 | 21 |
| 2019 | 23 | 31 |
| 2020 | 30 | 16 |
| 2021 | 23 | 31 |
| 2022 | 24 | 23 |
| 2023 | 20 | 23 |
| 2024 | 27 | 34 |
| 2025 | 25 | 21 |
| 2026 | 13 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 47/844The article-engaging elements being pushers transversally movable on the supporting surface202
- B65G 47/842The article-engaging elements being grippers118
- B65G 47/845The article engaging elements being pushers moving in parallel and independently from36
- B65G 47/843The article-engaging elements being suction or magnetic means35
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