Supply hopper assembly

Details Supply hopper assembly Supply hopper assembly

1986-02-21

1988-05-03

Valenza, Joseph E.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...

198453, 198493, 198533, 198443, 221200, 221211, B65G 4724

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047414286

ABSTRACT:
A hopper assembly for use in a product transporting apparatus having a rotary drum having at least one circumferential row of equally spaced, radially inwardly recessed pockets for receiving therein products to be transported while they are sucked therein by the effect of negative pressure developed in the respective pockets as the rotary drum rotates in one direction. The hopper assembly has a container having a bottom plate inclined at a particular angle downwardly towards the periphery of the drum and terminating at a particular position, and a nozzle assembly for supplying jets of compressed air into the container for permitting the products to be upwardly moved thereby to facilitate the supply of the products successively into the respective pockets.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1437863 (1922-12-01), Raymond
patent: 3889591 (1975-06-01), Noguchi
patent: 3933239 (1976-01-01), Yoshida

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