Patents Assigned to Big Dutchman (International) A.G.
  • Patent number: 3966049
    Abstract: The subject apparatus includes an egg receiver, an egg weighing device having an egg carrier, a conveyor belt for transporting a weighed egg, an ejector for ejecting weighed eggs from the conveyor and a collector of the weighed eggs. The improvement has an electronic weighing device having a vertically moveable lifting frame with a receiver cooperating with the egg-carrier. The lifting frame includes an interconnected lifting arm synchronously moveable with a conveyor horizontally moveable to and fro and a linking element along the collector having a vacuum control suction cup controlled by a pair of bellows cooperating synchronously with the egg carrier to receive an egg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Big Dutchman (International) A.G.
    Inventor: Christiaan van den Berg