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Combination scale for weighing long shaped loose products, such as pasta or similar

  • US 20040011568A1
  • Filed: 07/10/2003
  • Published: 01/22/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A combination scale comprising:

  • a rough weighing section with at least one rough weighing head (9, 11;

    109, 111) and a weighing means (25, 27;

    125) for weighing individual rough weight amounts of a loose product;

    a finishing section (2;

    102) with a plurality of weighing means (35, 37;

    135, 137) for weighing individual amounts of the loose product;

    a control unit (41) determining, for each rough amount, a combination of said individual amounts of product weighed in the finishing section, which sum is a finishing amount that, added to the respective rough amount, optimally approximates a predetermined nominal amount;

    in said finishing section (2;

    102), a plurality of weighing hoppers (35;

    135) and, underneath said weighing hoppers, an unloading system (39;

    43;

    139, 161-164) for the controlled unloading of individual amounts of product weighed in said weighing hoppers and selected by said control unit (41) in corresponding cups (7;

    107) where corresponding rough weighed amounts were previously unloaded;

    characterized in that said unloading system includes a plurality of transit levels (43, 45-57;

    161-164) arranged in a cascade underneath said weighing hoppers.

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