Object counting and discriminating device

• US 3,327,847 A
• Filed: 04/07/1965
• Issued: 06/27/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William P. Lockshaw
• Original Assignee: William P. Lockshaw
• Inventors: Lockshaw, William P.
• Application Number:
  US04/446,341
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• US Class Current: 209/548
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/02 Pill counting devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06M 1/101 by electro-optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G06M 7/04 Counting of piece goods, e.g. of boxes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 209/913 Screw feed conveyor

Claims

1. A MACHINE FOR DISCRIMINATINGLY COUNTING DISCRETE OBJECTS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A HOPPER CONTAINING A SUPPLY OF SAID OBJECTS, MEANS FOR CONVEYING A STRAIGHT LINE ARRAY OF OBJECTS FROM SAID HOPPER, MEANS FOR SENSING A SELECTED PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF EACH OBJECT IN SAID ARRAY, SAID SENSING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR SENSING THE SAID PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF A STANDARD OBJECT AND ESTABLISHING SAID PROPERTY AS A STANDARD, MEANS FOR COMPARING THE SAID PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF EACH SUCCESSIVE OBJECT IN SAID ARRAY WITH SAID ESTABLISHED STANDARD, MEANS FOR REJECTING AN OBJECT THE SAID PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF WHICH DOES NOT MEET SAID STANDARD, MEANS FOR COUNTING EACH OBJECT THE