141 |
Device for automatic filling of containers |
US386058 |
1995-02-07 |
US5575316A |
1996-11-19 |
Manfred Pollklas |
A device for automatic filling of a mobile container (4) with a material stream (13) from a harvester (1) moving alongside a discharge knee/discharge pipe which is controllably pivotable around a vertical and/or horizontal axis, with a pivotable discharge flap (5) at the end from the harvester (1) to the container (4). At least one optical and/or acoustic range finder (6) for measuring the container (4) and measuring fill levels is disposed on the discharge knee/discharge pipe (3). The range finder (6), either together with the discharge knee/discharge pipe (3) or independently thereof, can be pivoted horizontally and/or vertically. It sends distance signal (ES) to an electronic control installation which, according to the received distance signals, causes horizontal and/or vertical pivoting of the discharge knee/discharge pipe (3), if necessary by means of pivoting the discharge flap (5), for changing the discharge direction of the material stream into the container (4), so that as complete as possible loading of the container (4) is achieved with as few losses as possible. |
142 |
Device for transferring solid articles |
US301007 |
1994-09-06 |
US5513737A |
1996-05-07 |
Shuji Morimoto; Shiro Sato; Yutaka Sakuma; Haruo Iijima |
A transfer device is disposed vertically between an apparatus for carrying out a process and a further apparatus for carrying out a subsequent process so as to transfer solid articles from the apparatus to the further apparatus by gravity. The transfer device includes a cylindrical member which extends vertically and is provided, at its upper and lower portions, with a solid article supplying portion and a solid article discharge portion, respectively. A guide member is provided for effecting flow of the solid articles. The guide member is fixed to the cylindrical member so as to extend through a hollow defined in the cylindrical member from the solid article supplying portion to the solid article discharge portion. The guide member includes a central shaft extending through an axis of the cylindrical member, and a vane turning helically about an axis of the central shaft and projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the central shaft such that a whole outer peripheral edge of the vane extends in close proximity to an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical member. |
143 |
Chute for bulk materials |
US911196 |
1992-07-09 |
US5289909A |
1994-03-01 |
Arthur S. Maxwell; Ian R. Barnard |
An improved chute for conveying bulk materials from a higher location to a lower location includes a number of frustoconical hoppers, which are held in vertically-spaced relationship with the conical axes of adjacent hoppers inclined in different directions relative to the longitudinal axis (35) of the chute. The chute is much less liable than prior chutes to cause segregation or degradation of the bulk material being conveyed. |
144 |
Method in handling of returnable bottles and device for handling of
returnable bottles |
US543774 |
1990-07-18 |
US5065857A |
1991-11-19 |
Raimo Lehtola |
The invention concerns a method in handling of returnable bottles (P), wherein the returnable bottle is dropped vertically from an upper space (E.sub.1) into a lower space (E.sub.2) and wherein the returnable bottle is transferred from the drop space (C.sub.1) placed underneath the tube (11) further to a new storage position. According to the invention, the returnable bottle is dropped from the tube (11) into the space between the bristles (12a) in the transfer brush (12) and the guide part (17) and transferred out of said drop space (C.sub.1) further away, being shifted by the bristles (12a) or equivalent in the rotatable brush (12). The invention also concerns a device for handling of returnable bottles. |
145 |
Method and apparatus for loading particulate materials |
US418064 |
1989-10-06 |
US5016686A |
1991-05-21 |
Ralph Gerstenkorn |
Methods and apparatus for loading particulate materials, in particular calcined coke, into a transport vehicle are disclosed, wherein the loading operation under steady state conditions is carried out in a "plugged chute" mode, so that a major portion of the loading chute is maintained in a filled condition with the particulate material being loaded. In this manner, the product drop height is maintained at an acceptably low level so as to reduce the velocity of the particulate material throughout the loading process below a damaging rate and thereby prevent significant degradation of the material. In a preferred embodiment, the major portion of the loading chute comprises a telescoping chute arrangement and level control means located above the major portion of the loading chute is employed to maintain the chute in the plugged or full condition by regulation of the discharge valve when the telescoping chute arrangement is fully extended. Conventional level control means located near the discharge end of the major portion of the chute may be employed during particular phases of the loading operation (in particular, when the telescoping chute arrangement is retracted). Switching means is suitably provided to permit instantaneous change from the plugged chute loading mode to conventional loading. |
146 |
Method and apparatus for reducing the velocity of particulate matter |
US451130 |
1989-12-15 |
US4995499A |
1991-02-26 |
Lloyd G. Berquist |
A method and apparatus for reducing the velocity of a stream of particulate matter so as to prevent damage to the particulate matter. The present invention includes a chamber having an inlet port adapted for accepting particulate matter from a conduit, and an outlet port adapted for discharging particulate matter. The chamber consists of a curvilinear support surface with opposing ends connected to the inlet and outlet ports. The curvilinear support surface includes an ascending arcuate portion between the inlet and outlet ports. The velocity of a stream of particulate matter is reduced as it traverses the ascending arcuate portion of the curvilinear support surface. |
147 |
Storage container for storing powdered or granular materials |
US339175 |
1989-04-14 |
US4938372A |
1990-07-03 |
Kiyoshi Morimoto; Akikazu Iwamoto; Masuo Moriyama |
A storage container for storing powdered or granular materials without causing breakage and fragementation thereof includes a storage container body provided with at its upper portion with an a shock absorbing means accommodated therewithin for alleviating the shock of the materials induced thereinto. The shock absorbing means comprises, in a first aspect, a zigzagged shoot includes a plurality of slant plates extended inwardly alternately from its opposed side wall portions, a plurality of outlets formed below said respective slant plates except the lowermost one and a discharge window formed its upper portion. In a second aspect, it comprises a small and a large shock absorbing members configured to a right circular cone with the former being arranged on the upper side of the latter and disposed concentrically below the inlet. The latter has a drop opening formed at it stop portion. In a third apsect, it comprises a shock absorbing member configured to a right circular cone and disposed below the inlet and a plurality of trough members arranged radially projectingly on the foot edge thereof. In a fourth apsect, it comprises a small and a large slant trough members disposed within the storage container body with the former being arranged on the upper side of the latter and located below the inlet therewithin. The latter has a drop opening formed at its portion overlapped by the former. |
148 |
Device for transfer of fragile objects from a conveyor to a transporter |
US175378 |
1988-03-30 |
US4836355A |
1989-06-06 |
Philippe Blanc |
Fragile objects such as items of fruit are transferred from a receptacle conveyor to a transport belt by a rotary brush transverse to the conveyor and having bristles allowing formation of a cavity in the brush to receive the object when it falls from its receptacle, and a fixed brush facing the rotary brush to hold the object in its cavity until the object is deposited, without horizontal velocity, on the transport belt. |
149 |
Pellet-press-to-sintering-boat nuclear fuel pellet loading system |
US43059 |
1987-04-27 |
US4765453A |
1988-08-23 |
George D. Bucher |
A system for loading friable nuclear fuel pellets into sintering boats from a pellet press which ejects newly made pellets. A chute receives the ejected pellets and discharges them into an upright bowl at a location towards the top of the bowl near its inner surface with a tangential horizontal component of velocity. The bowl, which has an open smaller diameter bottom, is rotated such that the bowl near the pellet-discharge location has a velocity which generally matches the magnitude and direction of the horizontal component of the velocity of the pellets at the discharge location. A conveyor moves a line of adjacently positioned boats horizontally beneath the bottom of the bowl. A flexible strap which cushions the pellets as they enter a sintering boat also acts as a seal between boats. |
150 |
Guide chute for dropping articles |
US16380 |
1987-02-19 |
US4750602A |
1988-06-14 |
Takeshi Souda |
A guide chute for dropping articles has four shock absorbable members arranged in a vertical direction at regular intervals, and four ropes for connecting the shock absorbable members to one another. Each of the shock absorbable members is composed of a frame member, a plurality of elastic trapezoidal plates which are secured to the frame member, and coil springs for retaining the trapezoidal plates in a throttled condition. The width of each of the trapezoidal plates is increased towards its free tip end. The free tip end of each of each of the trapezoidal plates extends downward and toward the axial center of the frame member and is overlapped with adjacent free tip ends of adjacent trapezoidal plates to form a conic cylindrical body by virtue of the coil springs. And the free tip ends of the trapezoidal plates define an opening of a diameter smaller than that of articles to be dropped. When the dropping articles drop, they enlarge the opening of each of the shock absorbing members. At this time, the dropping articles receive friction force from the trapezoidal plates and elastic reaction force of the coil springs and accordingly dropping energy of the dropping articles is reduced. |
151 |
Shifting device for objects, such as eggs, to be handled |
US648219 |
1984-09-07 |
US4603772A |
1986-08-05 |
Hiroshi Tomosue |
A shifting device installed between a discharge conveyor for objects, such as eggs, to be processed and a receiving conveyor for the same and below the discharge conveyor, and provided with delivery devices for the objects to be processed, the delivery devices extending laterally and supported vertically in two rows and including receiving seats for the objects to be processed, which seats are disposed in parallel to each other and have the bottoms freely opening or closing so that the objects to be handled, after once received by the upper delivery device, are shifted to the lower delivery device and the lower delivery device lowers in proximity to the lower receiving conveyor, thereby shifting the objects thereto in safety without injuring the objects to be handled. |
152 |
Method of and apparatus for preventing segregation of aggregate |
US407453 |
1982-08-12 |
US4520918A |
1985-06-04 |
Joe R. Ray |
Apparatus for preventing segregation of aggregate includes a plurality of vertically disposed chutes at the discharge end of a conveyor, each chute being arranged to intercept a portion of aggregate leaving the conveyor, and direct it downwardly onto a common pile. |
153 |
Method of reducing damage to foodstuffs using cushioning aqueous foams |
US371866 |
1982-04-26 |
US4488634A |
1984-12-18 |
William T. West |
Damage to foodstuffs, such as eggs, during handling operations is reduced by providing the handling apparatus, such as a conveyor, with a layer of an aqueous foam to cushion the foodstuffs from hard contact with each other. |
154 |
Speed-slowing conveying tool for fruits and the like |
US502935 |
1983-06-10 |
US4476670A |
1984-10-16 |
Nobuo Ukai; Nagahiro Kawano; Yasumasa Toyofuku; Akira Nakamura |
A conveying tool comprises a funnel-shaped hopper and a tubular conveying part connected to the bottom of and hanging downward from the hopper, the conveying part comprising one unit section or a plurality of unit sections detachably connected end-to-end, each unit section comprising a pair of opposed and spaced-apart, rectangular main sheets and a pair of opposed rectangular side sheets with vertical edges secured to respective vertical edges of the main sheets thereby to form a tubular structure. The main sheets possess elasticity and flexibility and have, on the inner surfaces thereof, a large number of elastic projecting members, and the side sheets possess flexibility and are more pliable than the main sheets. Picked fruit dropped into the hopper are braked in their descent by the elastic projecting members and the inner wall surface of the conveying part and are thereby slowly lowered without damage to a container on the ground or on a vehicle. |
155 |
Device for grading products |
US246906 |
1981-03-23 |
US4411366A |
1983-10-25 |
Jan A. De Greef |
In a product grading apparatus in which the articles are conveyed in trays which are allowed to tilt downwardly at a discharge station to deposit an article onto an inclined chute leading to a support underlying the path of travel of the trays, each tray is provided with a flexible strip which trails down the chute and intercepts an article discharged by a tray and gently guides it to and onto the support. |
156 |
Trailer box loader system |
US859293 |
1977-12-12 |
US4178123A |
1979-12-11 |
Robert B. Loeffler |
A loader system for agricultural trailer boxes wherein a self-propelled carriage is provided with wheels to be driven on beams placed atop trailer boxes. The carriage supports conveyors extending over lateral sides of the trailer and the conveyors feed a chute emptying into the trailer interior. The beams of each trailer box can be linearly connected so that the carriage may be driven for one trailer to a queued trailer over a bridge formed by joining beams. |
157 |
Ducted material handling device for top unloading of a storage receptacle |
US818299 |
1977-07-25 |
US4138021A |
1979-02-06 |
Bruce A. McKenzie |
A material handling device is disclosed for use in a material holding, or storage, receptacle. The device includes a vertically positioned discharge duct having spaced apertures therein with the bottom of the duct connected to a discharge access passage whereby granular, free flowing material, such as grain, within the receptacle, is withdrawn through the apertures and discharge duct in a manner such that the withdrawn material is from the top of the stored mass. The apertures are either staggered or opposed with respect to one another along the discharge duct. Material loading is through the top of the receptacle with the loading duct, or channel, being formed in a manner so as to prevent damage by impact to the material being introduced. |
158 |
Harvester boom control |
US43620174 |
1974-01-24 |
US3889796A |
1975-06-17 |
BAILY EVERETT M; RATHBONE DONALD E; JOHNSON LYNN F |
A control unit for continuously monitoring and regulating the spacing between a discharge end of a conveyor and the upper surface of a pile for receiving material from the conveyor. An ultrasonic level monitor is utilized to determine the distance between the conveyor discharge end and the upper surface of the pile and to compare that distance with a desired distance. An output signal resulting from a comparison of the two distances is transmitted to a solenoid-operated valve to open or close a hydraulic fluid line to a hydraulic cylinder utilized to raise or lower the conveyor discharge end. The level monitor is thereby capable of continuously maintaining a desired distance between the conveyor discharge end and the upper surface of the pile.
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159 |
Device and method for loading of vertical catalyst tubes |
US3608751D |
1970-03-06 |
US3608751A |
1971-09-28 |
HUNDTOFTE VIRGIL A |
A device and method for facilitating dry loading of a particulate catalyst into vertical catalyst tubes. The loading device includes an elongated member such as a Manila line having inclined blades mounted thereon at selected spaced intervals. The elongated member is held vertically in the catalyst tube during the loading of the catalyst whereupon the blades function to cushion and retard the speed of the catalyst, the elongated member being removed therefrom in timed relation to the loading. With use of the device, catalyst breakage is greatly minimized.
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160 |
Apparatus for the control of the rolling speed of articles |
US3602349D |
1969-04-01 |
US3602349A |
1971-08-31 |
EDWARDS DERRIK ROBERT; STEWART ROY |
Apparatus for controlling the rolling speed, for example, of cylindrical articles down a slope comprises a flexible tube laid down the slope. Liquid is contained in the tube, the arrangement being such that rolling of an article down the tube causes a pressure rise in liquid in the tube forward of the article. Liquid leakage occurs under the article from the part of the tube forward of the article to the part of the tube behind the article, thereby controlling the rolling speed of the article to a constant velocity. A constant leak area is defined in the tube under the article, for example, by placing a longitudinal spacer strip in the tube.
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