Registers – Package operated – Package operated switch
Patent
1989-12-05
1990-10-16
Fuller, Benjamin R.
Registers
Package operated
Package operated switch
235 98C, 377 6, G06M 704
Patent
active
049637207
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for counting lump foodstuff includes a machine frame, a foodstuff feeding funnel fixed on the machine frame, a power-operated sheave unit mounted rotatably under the funnel, a conveyer belt unit disposed revolvably under the sheave unit, and a foodstuff collecting unit disposed under the conveyer belt unit. The sheave unit has several parallel grooves formed in the circumferential surface thereof. The conveyer belt unit includes several parallel belts which are engaged with the grooves of two power-operated pulleys. Any adjacent pair of the belts define therebetween a slot which is aligned with one of the grooves in the sheave unit. Rows of counters detect the foodstuffs which drop from the conveyer belt unit into the foodstuff collecting unit. In order to separate the foodstuffs into several groups according to the sizes thereof, the belts may be arranged so as to increase the width of the slots from the charge end of the conveyer belt unit to the discharge end of the conveyer belt unit, and several collecting tanks are disposed under the conveyer belt unit along the length of the same.
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