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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Flexible Steel Lacing Company, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Mark Steven Pettinga, Grandville, MI (US);
Flexible Steel Lacing Company, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body configured to be supported in a gap of a roller conveyor by upstream and downstream rollers. The body has an upper blocking portion with upper contact portions for slidingly contacting the upstream and downstream rollers above a narrowest portion of the gap. The body further includes a plurality of laterally spaced upstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion and a plurality of laterally spaced downstream leg portions connected to the upper blocking portion longitudinally spaced from the upstream leg portions. The upstream leg portions have upstream distal end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap. The downstream leg portions likewise have downstream end portions to be positioned below the narrowest portion of the gap for keeping the body in the gap.