Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Counting animate or inanimate entities
Patent
1982-09-07
1986-06-24
Heyman, John S.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Counting animate or inanimate entities
B65B 5720, G06M 302
Patent
active
045970912
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for counting small articles such as pills comprises a helical inclined plane having a pill receiving portion at or adjacent its upper end, pill detector means downstream of said pill receiving portion, said detector means being connected to a counter for giving a visual display of the number of pills passing over said detector means and pill collecting means for collecting pills after passage down said inclined plane, whereby pills deposited on said pill receiving portion are propelled under gravity down said inclined plane, are separated into substantially single file, are counted by said detector and counter means, and are collected in said collecting means.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3290488 (1966-12-01), Sewell
patent: 3573477 (1971-04-01), Klapes
patent: 4396828 (1983-08-01), Dino et al.
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