Device for Delivering Bulk Material Stored in a Supply Container

• US 20090255856A1
• Filed: 04/13/2009
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Mauz, Harald, GNANN, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US12/422,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20090255856A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 209/233
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 35/08 using pocketed conveyors
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 37/04 by vibratory feeders
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/08 Packaging groups of articles, the articles being individually gripped or guided for transfer to the containers or receptacles

Abstract

The device for delivering bulk material has a supply container having a product outlet with an outlet opening which has a rectangular shape. Further, is has a perforated plate having a hole-free product inlet surface arranged underneath the product outlet of the supply container. The perforated plate serves to receive individual products from the product outlet and to move them further in a transport direction while removing broken products and dust. The hole-free product inlet surface of the perforated plate has a surface width in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the outlet opening of the product outlet of the supply container has an opening width in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction, the opening width corresponding to 60-95% of the surface width.

Claims

1. A device for delivering bulk material consisting of individual products, the device comprising:

a supply container for storing the bulk material of individual products, the supply container having a product outlet with an outlet opening which has a substantially rectangular shape;

at least one perforated plate having a hole-free product inlet surface arranged underneath the product outlet of the supply container, the at least one perforated plate serving to receive the individual products from the product outlet and to move them further in a transport direction while removing broken products and dust;

wherein the hole-free product inlet surface of the at least one perforated plate has a surface width in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction and the outlet opening of the product outlet of the supply container has an opening width in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction, the opening width corresponding to 60-95% of the surface width.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the opening width corresponds to 75-85% of the surface width.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the hole-free product inlet surface of the at least one perforated plate comprises a surface area and the outlet opening of the product outlet of the supply container comprises an opening area, the surface area being 3 to 8 times the opening area.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein several perforated plates are arranged in a row in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction.