Conveyors: fluid current – With diverse power-driven conveyor – Rotary
Patent
1996-04-29
1998-03-10
Weldon, Kevin
Conveyors: fluid current
With diverse power-driven conveyor
Rotary
B65G 5308
Patent
active
057253323
ABSTRACT:
An air lock feeder for entrainment of solid particulate materials in an air stream. The invention includes a cylindrical housing with a shaft rotatably mounted in the ends of the housing. Inlet and outlet ports are included in the housing ends, and a lateral opening in the housing receives solid particulate material. A plurality of vanes extend laterally from the shaft and define a plurality of chambers within the housing, with the cambers generally parallel to the shaft and extending between the housing ends. Preferably, a flexible strip is included on the end of each vane adjacent the housing. Dividers located between adjacent vanes separate air channels from the chambers. The chambers are charged with solid material from the lateral facing opening in the housing as shaft rotates within the housing. Pressurized air enters the chambers via inlet port as each chamber rotatably moves past the inlet port, and the material within the chambers is entrained in an air stream and carried out the exit port. The air channels provide a super charging effect and introduce pressurized air to the entrained material from the chambers adjacent to the exit port.
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Hammond Gordon D.
Harper Derick E.
O'Banion John P.
Saf-T-Source, Inc.
Weldon Kevin
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