Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Counting animate or inanimate entities
Patent
1986-03-31
1988-03-15
Heyman, John S.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Counting animate or inanimate entities
377 53, 209687, 209551, 250223R, 235 98C, 198397, B65G 4714, G06M 700
Patent
active
047318023
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for counting substantially cylindrical articles comprises a rotatable elevator cylinder having a circumferential series of compartments for the articles on the inside surface of the cylindrical wall thereof. Means are provided for sensing the presence of an article in each compartment when passing a predetermined position in the rotational path of the compartments, and for sensing the arrival of each compartment to said position, as well as means for making one count in dependence on the sensing of an article in said position.
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