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OT-2026-000001639

Electromagnetic laner

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
HALL BENSON, RAGAN BRYANT G
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LAITRAM LLC
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US-2026077962-A1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 19 March 2026
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Abstract

A conveyor and a related method for organizing electrically conductive articles such as aluminum cans, into single-file lanes. Parallel rails divide the conveying surface of a conveyor belt into lanes across the width of an upper belt run. Upstream electro-magnetic coil sets in line with each rail produce magnetic fields that interact with the conductive cans to produce forces that pre-arrange the cans into lanes between the coil sets for presentation to the lanes between the rails already in line. In that way, damaging collisions between the cans and the ends of the rails are avoided.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000001639, “Electromagnetic laner,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:07:14 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001639.

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