Constant quantity discharging device for powdered object

• US 5,495,962 A
• Filed: 11/10/1994
• Issued: 03/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha N-Tech
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha N-Tech
• Inventors: Nomura, Akichika
• Primary Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Application Number:
  US08/337,062
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 222/80, 222/305, 222/362, 222/370, 222/452, 222/510, 222/240
• US Class Current: 222/80
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/34 dispensing a certain quantity of powdered or granulated foodstuffs, e.g. sugar
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/46 for fluent solid material

Abstract

A constant quantity discharging device for measuring and discharging a constant quantity of powdered object from a powdered object container includes a fixed cap, a rotary disk, and a rotary cap which are coupled and mounted to the container. The rotary disk and the rotary cap sandwiching the fixed cap are rotated manually as a unit with respect to the fixed cap. The rotary disk has a powder taking out aperture, the fixed cap has a powder storing aperture, and the rotary cap has a powder discharging aperture. The positional relationships of these apertures are shifted circumferentially as the rotary disk and the rotary cap are rotated with respect to the fixed cap such that these apertures are sequentially communicated with an adjacent aperture. As a result, the powder in the container is transferred to the powder storing aperture through the powder taking out aperture of the rotary disk, and then the powder is discharged from the powder storing aperture through the powder discharging aperture of the rotary cap. The constant quantity of powder is determined by the volume of the powder storing aperture.

Claims

1. A constant quantity discharging device for discharging a constant quantity of powdered object from a powdered object accommodating container, comprising:

a fixed cap made of a thick disk fixed to an opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary disk slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at a side of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary cap slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at an opposite side of the powdered object accommodating container;

a knob for rotation provided on an upper opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary shaft for connecting said knob to the rotary disk and the rotary cap;

a plurality of powdered object storing apertures of different volumes penetrating vertically through a peripheral portion of the fixed cap;

a scale mark provided on the fixed cap to read a rotation position of the knob for rotation corresponding to a selected one of the plurality of storing apertures;

a powdered object taking out aperture formed in the rotary disk to overlap sequentially with the plurality of powdered object storing apertures;

a powdered object discharging aperture formed in the rotary cap to overlap with the selected one of the plurality of powdered object storing apertures and to be spaced from the powdered object taking out aperture in a circumferential direction by at least a width of the powdered object storing aperture; and

rotation range restricting means for restricting a rotation range of the rotary disk and the rotary cap with respect to the fixed cap in a range which includes at least a powdered object taking out position at which the plurality of powdered object storing apertures and the powdered object taking out aperture are overlapped with each other and a powdered object discharging position at which the powdered object discharging aperture and the plurality of powdered object storing apertures are overlapped with each other.

2. A constant quantity discharging device for discharging a constant quantity of powdered object from a powdered object accommodating container, comprising:

a fixed cap made of a thick disk fixed to an opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary disk slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at a side of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary cap slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at an opposite side of the powdered object accommodating container;

rotation force transmitting means for integrating the rotary disk and the rotary cap in a direction of rotation;

a powdered object storing aperture penetrating vertically through a peripheral portion of the fixed cap;

a powdered object taking out aperture formed in the rotary disk to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture;

a powdered object discharging aperture formed in the rotary cap to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture and to be spaced from the powdered object taking out aperture in a circumferential direction by at least a width of the powdered object storing aperture;

rotation range restricting means for restricting a rotation range of the rotary disk and the rotary cap with respect to the fixed cap in a range which includes at least a powdered object taking out position at which the powdered object storing aperture and the powdered object taking out aperture are overlapped with each other and a powdered object discharging position at which the powdered object discharging aperture and the powdered object storing aperture are overlapped with each other; and

cutting means respectively provided on opposing sides of the powdered object storing aperture and the powdered object taking out aperture, the opposing sides opposing each other when the powdered object storing aperture and the powdered object taking out aperture rotate towards the powdered object discharging position after both apertures are overlapped with each other at the powdered object taking out position.

3. A constant quantity discharging device for discharging a constant quantity of powdered object from a powdered object accommodating container, comprising:

a fixed cap made of a thick disk fixed to an opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary disk slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at a side of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary cap slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at an opposite side of the powdered object accommodating container;

rotation force transmitting means for integrating the rotary disk and the rotary cap in a direction of rotation;

a powdered object storing aperture penetrating vertically through a peripheral portion of the fixed cap;

a powdered object taking out aperture formed in the rotary disk to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture;

a powdered object discharging aperture formed in the rotary cap to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture and to be spaced from the powdered object taking out aperture in a circumferential direction by at least a width of the powdered object storing aperture;

rotation range restricting means for restricting a rotation range of the rotary disk and the rotary cap with respect to the fixed cap in a range which includes at least a powdered object taking out position at which the powdered object storing aperture and the powdered object taking out aperture are overlapped with each other and a powdered object discharging position at which the powdered object discharging aperture and the powdered object storing aperture are overlapped with each other; and

a knob for rotation provided on an end portion opposite to the opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container, the knob for rotation connected by a rotary shaft to at least one of the rotary disk and the rotary cap.

4. The constant quantity discharging device according to claim 3, wherein a scale mark is provided to read a rotation position of the knob for rotation.

5. The constant quantity discharging device according to claim 3, wherein a stirring vane is fixed to the rotary shaft.

7. The constant quantity discharging device according to claim 3, wherein a stand is provided to support the powdered object accommodating container removably.

6. A constant quantity discharging device for discharging a constant quantity of powdered object from a powdered object accommodating container, comprising:

a fixed cap made of a thick disk fixed to an opening portion of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary disk slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at a side of the powdered object accommodating container;

a rotary cap slidably and rotatably disposed on a surface of the fixed cap at an opposite side of the powdered object accommodating container;

rotation force transmitting means for integrating the rotary disk and the rotary cap in a direction of rotation;

a powdered object storing aperture penetrating vertically through a peripheral portion of the fixed cap;

a powdered object taking out aperture formed in the rotary disk to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture;

a powdered object discharging aperture formed in the rotary cap to overlap with the powdered object storing aperture and to be spaced from the powdered object taking out aperture in a circumferential direction by at least a width of the powdered object storing aperture;

rotation range restricting means for restricting a rotation range of the rotary disk and the rotary cap with respect to the fixed cap in a range which includes at least a powdered object taking out position at which the powdered object storing aperture and the powdered object taking out aperture are overlapped with each other and a powdered object discharging position at which the powdered object discharging aperture and the powdered object storing aperture are overlapped with each other;

a rotatable stirring vane provided in a space of the rotary disk at an opposite side of the fixed cap; and

stirring vane driving means for rotating the stirring vane at a different rotation speed from that of the rotary disk.