Particle feeding

• US 3,305,067 A
• Filed: 07/26/1965
• Issued: 02/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: HOWE Richardson Company
• Original Assignee: Gerald C. Mayer
• Inventors: Mayer, Gerald C.
• Application Number:
  US04/474,594
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• US Class Current: 198/383
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 47/145 Jigging or reciprocating movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 13/00 Weighing apparatus with automatic feed or discharge for weighing-out batches of material for weighing a continuous stream G01G11/00; check-weighing G01G15/00; for fluids G01G17/04; apportioning by weight materials to be mixed G01G19/22; combinatorial weighing G01G19/387

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR FEEDING RELATIVELY LARGE PARTICLES OF SOLID MATERIAL FROM A RECEPTACLE HAVING A LOWER DISCHARGE OPENING TO A WEIGHING, COUNTING OR LIKE DEVICE, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A UNITARY, FIXED POSITION TROUGH ASSEMBLY HAVING A DELIVERY SECTION DISPOSED TO RECEIVE PARTICLES IN RANDOM ARRANGEMENT FROM SAID RECEPTACLE AND A DISCHARGE SECTION DISPOSED TO RECEIVE AND CARRY AWAY PARTICLES FROM SAID DELIVERY SECTION, MEANS FOR IMPARTING MOVEMENT TO PARTICLES ALONG SAID ASSEMBLY, MEANS FOR REDUCING THE DEPTH OF THE BODY OF PARTICLES ON SAID DELIVERY SECTION TO A SINGLE PARTICLE DEPTH, MEANS DEFINING A JUNCTURE OF PREDETERMINED CONTOUR BETWEEN THE ADJACENT ENDS OF SAID DELIVERY AND DISCHARGE SECTIONS, AND SURFACE MEANS FORMED ON SAID DISCHARGE SECTION AND COOPERATING WITH SAID JUNCTURE TO PROVIDE FOR THE TIMED ARRIVAL OF THE RANDOMLY ARRANGED PARTICLES IN A SINGLE FILE OF SINGLE PARTICLE DEPTH WHILE MOVING ALONG SAID DISCHARGE SECTION.