Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With material treatment – Compacting
Patent
1991-02-08
1992-08-11
Cusick, Ernest G.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With material treatment
Compacting
100229A, 100233, 141 73, 141 81, 53527, B30B 1506, B30B 1516
Patent
active
051370620
ABSTRACT:
An auto-tamping funnel system for tamping a product in a container includes a downwardly converging funnel having a bottom outlet disposed adjacent an open top of the tray and a side recess or cutout near the bottom outlet. A door is sized to fit closely in the bottom outlet and in the side recess and a mounting mechanism mounts the door for movement such as rotation between a tamping position where the bottom outlet is closed by the door and a receiving position where the side recess is substantially closed by the door and the bottom outlet is unobstructed. A moving mechanism moves the door between the tamping and the receiving positions. Preferably, the mounting mechanism includes a pivot axis for the door which is adjacent the bottom outlet and the bottom outlet and the recess of the funnel are rectangularly shaped. A pressure distributing mechanism also provides a maximum tamping pressure against the product, when the door is in the tamping position, at a location which is spaced from the pivot axis. Advantageously, a second funnel with an associated second door, a second mounting mechanism and a second moving mechanism is located adjacent the first-mentioned funnel.
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Kuethe David F.
Mezera William J.
Cusick Ernest G.
Harcarik Joseph T.
Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation
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