Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...
Patent
1974-09-18
1976-04-13
Marbert, James B.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...
198 56, B65G 6900
Patent
active
039498611
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for feeding substantially equally weighted groups of articles to a packaging apparatus in a timed continuous sequence. The articles are initially fed individually to a plurality of hoppers, each of which has means to weigh the articles therein. Further feeding of articles to any given hopper is blocked or discontinued when a predetermined weight of the articles has been reached in the particular hopper. A conveyor having a plurality of containers passes beneath the hoppers to receive the articles therefrom as they are dumped from the hoppers. The dumping of the articles from the hopper is controlled with the movement of the containers beneath the hoppers so that each hopper dumps the articles only in empty containers. The control means prevents more than one group of articles from being dumped into any given container on the conveyor and ensures that each container on the conveyor is filled so that the packaging operation has a continuous supply of the groups of articles.
Means are provided to prevent dumping of a hopper in the event that the hopper fills after the conveyor has stopped for the dumping cycle. An electric eye is provided to sense the presence of an empty container beneath multiple weigh hoppers and means are provided for latching the dumping mechanism after commencement of dumping to prevent premature termination of the dumping due to detection of the articles falling into the container during dumping of the hoppers.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2698692 (1955-01-01), Jones et al.
patent: 3073402 (1963-01-01), Green et al.
Scholtens Albert
Scholtens Simon A.
Marbert James B.
Nu-Way Marketing and Packaging Co., Inc.
LandOfFree
Packaging weighted groups of articles does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Packaging weighted groups of articles, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Packaging weighted groups of articles will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-747493