Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With material treatment – Compacting
Patent
1996-02-23
1998-06-09
Recla, Henry J.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With material treatment
Compacting
141 73, 141148, 53525, B65B 104
Patent
active
057621136
ABSTRACT:
Volumetric container filling apparatus comprises a revolving carousel including a product bowl provided with a plurality of openings, volume-defining tubular sections provided with sliding gates and pedestals for supporting containers to be filled. A tubular extension extends below each sliding gate. A vibrating cam imparts a vibration in a vertical direction to the pedestals and any container disposed on a pedestal. A container chuck engages an upper edge of a container on a pedestal. The container chuck and tubular extension together define an enclosed collection area for temporarily retaining product while the contents of the container is settled by the vertical vibration. The carousel further includes a vibrating outer cup in each opening of the product bowl to reduce bridging which tends to occur with low density product. Each outer cup is connected by means of vertically-extending rods to a corresponding container chuck. The rods transmit vibrations from a container on a vibrating pedestal to the associated inner cup. In this manner, vertically-directed vibrations are transmitted from a vibrating cam via pedestals to containers and via container chucks and interconnecting rods to associated outer cups, thereby aiding in the settling of product in a container from a collection area below the gate valve while a corresponding vibrating outer cup aids in the filling of the volume-defining area above the gate valve.
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Food Machinery Catalog, No. 184, Section 4 --Fillers/Closers, pp. 47-50 (no available date).
Ricossa Philip
Thompson Rhys D.
Douglas Steven O.
Recla Henry J.
Voll Tech Inc.
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