Abstract: Two systems of transporting grain or other bulk crop employ a grain handling trailer incorporating a pair of weighing hoppers with a grain loading system for the hoppers and a grain discharge system. In one system the mobile grain handling truck visits storage containers in the production area and acts to weigh and grade the crop on site before discharging it into haulage trucks for delivery to a rail hub. At the rail hug a grade unloading apparatus is provided comprising a two-story enclosed building with the road trucks positioned vertically above and parallel to a section of rail on which rail cars can be positioned for receiving by gravity the discharged crop. In the second system the mobile grain handling trailer moves to a rail siding particularly convenient to the production area for on site weighing and grading the grain for direct delivery into rail cars positioned on the siding.

Abstract: Measurement of an integrated weight of a particulate material being continuously fed to a powder treating system or the like by providing a powder delivery port in a lower portion of a pressurized powder feed container for supplying the particulate material to a blowing port of the treating system, connecting a pressurized powder replenishing container to an upper portion of the powder feed container for replenishing the power feed container with the particulate material under pressure, continuously feeding the particulate material along with part of a pressurized carrier gas introduced into the delivery port of the pressurized powder feed container, communicating the powder replenishing and feed containers with each other with suitable timing for replenishing the particulate material, sequentially measuring the weights of powder contents in the containers to measure the integrated weight of the particulate material fed through the delivery port during a time period of operation; batchwise combining the weigh

Abstract: A facility for the examination of radioactive bodies in which carriages, each transporting one or more radioactive bodies, travel along a shielded passage to bring the bodies to examination stations spaced along the passage. The transverse sectional dimensions of the passage are not much larger than the corresponding dimensions of the carriages in order to maintain the radioactive region as small as possible. Equipment for the examination of the radioactive bodies is located outside the shielded passage.

Abstract: A supply container contains therein a supply of granular or pulverulent solid fuel material. A air supply conduit extends into the supply container and has an outlet end at a position within the supply container to be embedded within the solid fuel material. The fuel outlet conduit extends into the supply container and has an inlet end at a position within the supply container to be embedded within the solid fuel material. The outlet end of the air supply conduit and the inlet end of the fuel outlet conduit confront each other and are separated from each other by a space. A feed flow of air is supplied through the air supply conduit outwardly through the outlet end thereof, to entrain and blow particles of the solid fuel material positioned in the space into the fuel outlet conduit. The feed flow of air and particles entrained thereby are then discharged into a transport conduit and conveyed to a burner.

Abstract: A dispensing and weighing system for multiple ingredients, including a plurality of individual ingredient batch weighers. Each batch weigher includes apparatus to store and dispense a particulate material to a scale from which the weighed portion of the material is intended to be delivered to a pneumatic ingredients delivery conduit. The pneumatic conduit discharges into a weighing hopper, where the weight of all of the batches delivered to the hopper is determined. A method for dispensing individual, weighed batches of particulate material, and for determining the total weight of the material actually delivered to a receiver.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for detecting the weight of an article by measuring the amount of pressure required to support the article. The weighing device is characterized by a weighing table having a plurality of apertures for receiving compressed air. The pressure required to support the gross weight of an article passing over the apertures is sensed by a pressure transducer and translated into an electrical signal used to derive the actual numerical weight of the article.

Abstract: An installation for the transfer of cash between a cash desk and a strong room in a banking establishment includes a conveying line, a storage device, a removal line and a blower which is selectively connected to the conveying line, the storage device and the removal line through a logic control unit located at a desk. The "driving" members of the installation are situated in the strong room.

Abstract: A live storage system for packages is provided in which a rack has a plurality of storage rows, each row having a slot along its base. An input lane for the packages extends along one side of the storage rack and an output lane for the packages extends along another side of the storage rack. A traveler mounted beneath the storage rack moves to positions beneath each of the rows. The traveler has an air plenum with a plurality of air jets extending through the upper surface of the plenum. The traveler has a diverter at each end to divert packages from the input lane to a storage row, and to divert packages from a storage row to the output lane. An air supply pressurizes the plenum of the traveler and the pressurized air flows through the jets in the upper surface of the traveler and through the slot in the base of each of the storage rows to create an air film along which the packages are conveyed onto and off of each storage row. An accumulating conveyor gathers slugs of packages for the storage system.