Automatic scale filler apparatus

• US 3,090,453 A
• Filed: 05/02/1960
• Issued: 05/21/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sidney Rosen
• Original Assignee: Sidney Rosen
• Inventors: Rosen, Sidney
• Application Number:
  US04/026,028
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• US Class Current: 177/120
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 13/2954 wherein the main feed is effected by mechanical conveying means, e.g. by belt conveyors, by vibratory conveyors

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISPENSING AND WEIGHTING POWDER, GRANULAR MATERIALS, TABLETS, CAPSULES, OR THE LIKE COMPRISING, A DISPENSING MECHANISM INCLUDING A VIBRATORY MOUNTED CHUTE TYPE TRAY HAVING A BRIDGE PORTION OVER THE TOP THEREOF, A DIVIDER ELEMENT DEPENDING FROM SAID BRIDGE PORTION TO THE CHUTE SURFACE OF SAID CHUTE TYPE TRAY AND EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY THE LENGTH THEREOF FOR DIVIDING SAID TRAY INTO FAST AND SLOW FEED AISLES, MEANS TO ADJUSTABLY SECURE SAID DIVIDER ELEMENT TO AND ALONG SAID BRIDGE PORTION SO AS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY ADJUST THE RESPECTIVE WIDTHS OF SAID FAST AND SLOW AISLES, AND A HOPPER FOR FEEDING MATERIAL TO BE DISPENSED INTO SAID FAST AND SLOW AISLES;

MEANS INCLUDING A SCALE FOR AUTOMATICALLY WEIGHTING SAID MATERIAL BEING DISPENSED BY SAID CHUTE TYPE TRAY, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SENSING THE POSITION OF SAID SCALE AND SAID WEIGHTING MEANS A FIRST TIME AND FOR SHUTTING OFF THE MATERIAL BEING DISPENSED BY SAID FAST FEED AISLE WHEN A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT OF MATERIAL HAS BEEN DISPENSED AND WEIGHED BY SAID WEIGHING MEANS AND FOR