Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – Plural diverse filling lines
Patent
1975-01-27
1976-10-26
Aegerter, Richard E.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
Plural diverse filling lines
141104, 141238, 2221294, B65B 104, B65B 304
Patent
active
039878244
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for simultaneously filling each of a standard trayful of glasses with a metered mixture of ice cubes and water. The bottom of an ice cube supply bin is defined by a flat plate having openings arranged in correspondence with the location of glasses in a standard tray. A grid-like shutter is slidably supported upon the plate and may be shifted to selectively block or unblock the openings in the plate to prevent or permit ice cubes to drop from the bin through the openings in the plate. Open-ended metering tubes extend downwardly from the plate at each opening, the tubes having an internal volume of approximately one-half of that of the glasses to be filled. A second grid-like shutter is slidably mounted immediately below the lower ends of the tubes to selectively block or unblock the lower end of the tubes. A nozzle connected to a water supply source is mounted on each tube to discharge water downwardly into the underlying glass. A support platform with locating means is mounted below the apparatus to support a trayful of glasses to be filled in vertical alignment with the respective tubes. By shifting the upper plate to its open position while the lower plate blocks the lower ends of the tubes, the tubes are gravitationally filled with ice cubes from the bin. The upper plate is returned to its blocking position and subsequent shifting of the lower plate to its open position drops a measured charge of ice cubes from the tubes into each of the underlying glasses. A time-controlled valve or other suitable metering system is actuated to discharge a metered amount of water into each glass through the respective nozzles. The nozzles may include a petcock or other individually adjustable valve to assure the discharge of an equal volume of water from each nozzle.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1139269 (1915-05-01), Goodman et al.
patent: 3181739 (1965-05-01), Dye
patent: 3893494 (1975-07-01), Whitney
Aegerter Richard E.
Schmidt Frederick R.
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