Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Processes – With material treatment
Patent
1977-11-07
1980-03-11
Bell, Houston S.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Processes
With material treatment
141 80, 141125, 141129, B65B 104
Patent
active
041923596
ABSTRACT:
Container filling apparatus and method are disclosed in a form for loading green beans into containers, such as hampers, boxes, crates and the like. A conveyor deposits the beans onto a turntable having a continuous series of ports along its peripheral portion for passage of the beans into the containers below the ports. Beans which do not drop through the ports remain on the turntable and are carried to a first rotary unit which propels the beans in a direction opposite the rotational direction of the turntable and at least partially into the ports to substantially fill the containers. The rotary units are above the path of the ports and remove excess beans from atop the ports. A compactor for the beans in the containers is provided along the path of the ports immediately downstream of the rotary unit, to eliminate voids between the beans and the beans on the turntable are carried to a second rotary unit which again propels the beans away from itself for ultimate removal through the ports. The containers are received on and removed from an elevating system which raises each container into engagement with a peripheral lip of an associated one of the ports and then lowers the container after one revolution with the turntable.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3839852 (1974-10-01), Jebens
patent: 3958612 (1976-05-01), Franzl
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