Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers – Sampler type
Patent
1991-11-14
1993-06-01
Cusick, Ernest G.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With conveying means to supply successive receivers
Sampler type
141103, 141105, 141234, 141387, 422100, G01N 114
Patent
active
052151310
ABSTRACT:
A system for automatically and accurately transferring/transporting quantities of liquids from bulk storage source tanks to mixing/processing tanks with minimal contamination of the liquids or to the surrounding environment. The several bulk storage source tanks are individually connected by associated pumps and control valves to a corresponding plurality of first couplers fixedly mounted on a terminal panel in an array of predetermined geometry. A second coupler, adapted for selective mating engagement with the first couplers, is carried by a robotic arm that is movably mounted on a support base for bringing the second coupler selectively into registry and coupling engagement with any one of the first couplers. Motion of the arm and engagement/disengagement of the couplers, as well as operation of the several storage source pumps and appropriate control valves, are all controlled by a process controller/computer, which also receives an input from a mass flow meter for determining quantity of liquid transferred to the mixing/processing tank from each storage tank. The couplers are of the locking dry-break type to minimize spillage or leakage during the coupling/decoupling and liquid transport operation.
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