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Opposed inductor improvements

  • US 7,412,934 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2007
  • Issued: 08/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of conveying a product from a hopper with forced air to a remote location, the method comprising the acts of:

  • providing a nurse inductor assembly configured to generate a combined stream of air and entrained product, the nurse inductor assembly having a chamber operable to receive the product from the hopper, and an inlet tube operable to receive stream of pressurized air;

    providing an adjustable outlet assembly operable to communicate the stream of pressurized air and product from the inductor assembly for transport to the remote location;

    purging product deposited in and downstream of the adjustable outlet assembly of the inductor assembly toward the remote location;

    preventing product in the chamber from entering the outlet tube during the act of purging of the deposits of the product; and

    moving the adjustable outlet assembly inward or outward with respect to the product in the inductor chamber.

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