Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With conveying means to supply successive receivers – With variable rate of receiver travel in cycle
Patent
1993-05-24
1994-12-06
Recla, Henry J.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With conveying means to supply successive receivers
With variable rate of receiver travel in cycle
141169, 198461, B65B 4342, B67C 300
Patent
active
053701623
ABSTRACT:
A container filler assembly, as for berries, having a filler hopper located above a central filler conveyor driven at a slower speed than an upstream denesting and infeed conveyor which feeds empty containers to the filler conveyor, and an exit conveyor downstream of the filler conveyor driven at a greater speed than the filler conveyor, such that spaced containers on the denesting conveyor are put into abutment as they approach the filler hopper outlet, and subsequently placed again in a spaced condition after filling for dropping any berries caught on the container rims and for being closed as by placement of a wrapper on the filled container or closure of the clamshell container. The conveyors have overlapping driven V-belts with high friction surfaces.
The denesting conveyor is preferably directly driven by a motor, while the filler conveyor and the exit conveyor are driven through a controlled clutch from the same motor. The clutch is controlled by two container sensors, one being a container sensor such as an electric eye at the denesting conveyor, to stop the filler conveyor and the exit conveyor if adequate containers are not sensed on the infeed denester conveyor, and a second container sensor at the discharge end of the exit conveyor and actuated by a container left in front of the sensor more than a certain preselected time period, to stop the filler conveyor and exit conveyor for preventing the high friction conveyor from tipping the containers over and jamming the system.
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BEI Incorporated
Douglas Steven O.
Recla Henry J.
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