Abstract: A supplying apparatus and a supplying method of granular material in which granular material is supplied to a measuring container provided on a lower side so as to reach a target measurement value which is determined in advance. The supplying apparatus includes a storage container storing granular material, a valve body provided in the storage container so as to be opened when granular material is supplied, and a control section controlling open and close operations of the valve body. The control section keeps the valve body at an open position until a detection value of a detecting section of the measuring container becomes a predetermined value smaller than the target measurement value when the target measurement value exceeds a threshold value which is determined in advance. The control section opens the valve body in a pulsed way until the detection value of the detecting section becomes the target measurement value when the target measurement value is under the threshold value.

Abstract: A supplying apparatus of granular material including a storage container storing granular material and a supplying portion having a columnar valve body sliding along an opening direction of a guide hole provided for the storage container. The supplying portion supplies granular material to a supply destination; the valve body includes a material supplying passage penetrating the valve body so as to provide an inlet and an outlet on a side circumferential face and includes a closing portion closing the guide hole when the valve body is at a closed position, the closing portion being provided in the guide hole; and the material supplying passage slants in such a manner that the inlet opens in the storage container and the outlet opens outside the storage container when the valve body is at a supply position supplying granular material.

Abstract: A supplying apparatus of granular material including a storage container storing granular material and a supplying portion having a columnar valve body sliding along an opening direction of a guide hole provided for the storage container. The supplying portion supplies granular material to a supply destination; the valve body includes a material supplying passage penetrating the valve body so as to provide an inlet and an outlet on a side circumferential face and includes a closing portion closing the guide hole when the valve body is at a closed position, the closing portion being provided in the guide hole; and the material supplying passage slants in such a manner that the inlet opens in the storage container and the outlet opens outside the storage container when the valve body is at a supply position supplying granular material.

Abstract: A drying apparatus under reduced pressure for a plastic molding material. The apparatus comprises a drying hopper provided with an airtight material charge valve capable of containing gas therein at its upper portion and a material discharge valve at its lower portion, and connected to a vacuum pump via vacuum piping, a heating means of thermal conduction type provided in the drying hopper, and a plastic material adherence preventing means in which a gas charge port connected to a gas tank storing gas via a gas changeover valve is provided between the material discharge valve and the drying hopper and stored gas is fed into the drying hopper by opening the gas changeover valve after predetermined time, thereby preventing adherence of plastic molding material.

Abstract: A screw type material feeding apparatus in which a screw rotary driving axis with a spiral material supply blade is rotatably contained in a material feeding tube. The apparatus comprises a material divider with plural vanes provided at the distal end of the rotary driving axis, the plural vanes radially project from the screw rotary driving axis.

Abstract: A drying and storing apparatus for powdered or granular material and a feeding system for powdered or granular material. The apparatus comprises a heating and drying chamber having a discharge port at its lower end and a thermal conductive heating means therein and a hopper chamber connected to the upper end of the heating and drying chamber, in which the heating and drying chamber and the hopper chamber constitute a integrally combined material storage processing tank for powdered or granular material.

Abstract: A continuous quantitative discharging device comprising a material reserving chamber for storing material continuously supplied from a material supply means; a material storage tank having at a top a material inlet separated from said material reserving chamber for storing material fallen from said material reserving chamber and having at a lower part a discharge means capable of continuously and quantitatively discharging the stored material therefrom; a load cell type mass weighing part having a carrying arm secured to only said material storage tank in said material storage tank and supporting said carrying arm by a load cell provided on a support frame separated from said material storage tank in a non-contact state; and a controller for monitoring the weighed value of said load cell and controlling the discharge of material from said discharge means and/or the supply of material into said material storage tank.

Abstract: A suspension type damper unit, a suction type powder collector and an air mixing suction type powder collector are disclosed, which have a cover plate suspended at a material discharge port thereof with a suspension member so as to form a space for the material discharge port. In these apparatus, the cover plate functions to close the material discharge port by receiving suction force by which a powdered material is fed into the material collector and opens the material discharge port by receiving the weight of the specified amount of the powdered material which is stored in the material collector.

Abstract: A pulsating vibration air generation apparatus capable of sharply and quickly controlling air flow in turning on and off operation, thereby generating a pulsating vibration air with sharp and hardly attenuated peak and valley, and capable of operation without occurrence of so much mechanical vibration. The pulsating vibration air generation apparatus is comprised of a main body having a tubular hollow space R2 with which two air communication ports are associated, and a rotary body situated for rotation in the tubular hollow space R2 and which has a peripheral side surface S4c so as to slide on the inner surface S2c forming the tubular hollow space R2.

Abstract: A drying apparatus for powdered or granular material comprising a hopper body with an electric heater in its center, housing therein a heat conducting fin formed with plural compartment walls radially projected therefrom and a carrier gas communication path provided in the conducting fin, which has an upper introduction port and a lower exhaust port, both connected with a penetrating up and down path provided in the center of the heat conducting fin. The apparatus is constructed such that carrier gas externally introduced is fed into the hopper body. According to the apparatus, powdered or granular material is uniformly heated and dried and heating source for carrier gas is not necessary, thereby achieving improvement in energy efficiency and energy saving.

Abstract: Pulsating vibration air generation apparatus comprising a cylindrical casing having an air supply port connected with an air source and a wave transmission port provided at the circumferential surface thereof, and a drum type rotary valve constructed rotatably in the casing, wherein the air supply port is located where a circumferential surface of the rotary valve is positioned when the rotary valve is contained in the casing, the wave transmission port is located apart from where the circumferential surface of the rotary valve is positioned when the rotary valve is contained in the casing, the drum type rotary valve is comprised of a rotary support shaft at a center axis, one end of the rotary valve is opened, another end of the rotary valve is closed, at least one ventilation window is provided at the circumferential surface of the rotary valve, the rotary valve is contained in the casing in such a manner that the open end of the rotary valve faces to the wave transmission port of the casing, and the at lea

Abstract: A production method and system for granulating powdered material wherein powdered material is fluidized by applying heated pulsating vibration air, and the fluidized powdered material is suspended up and down at a regular cycle by means of heated pulsating vibration air, the aggregated material is compressed by further vibration of pulsating vibration air, whereby the aggregated powdered material is efficiently made into granulated material with high density and rather small specific volume without causing projection on the surface and without being made porous. The production system is comprised of a granulation tank for storing powdered material to be granulated, the granulation tank having a supply port for introducing heated air at the bottom thereof, a discharge port for discharging the introduced heated air at the top thereof, and a fluidization bed provided above the supply port for receiving the powdered material.

Abstract: A mixing and blending method for powdered or granular material includes supplying pulsating vibration air into an airtight tank from a bottom thereof. An airtight tank having a porous bottom plate on which the material is stored is provided for the mixing and blending method. In the system pulsating vibration air is generated by periodically increasing and decreasing the amount of blowing air at a low frequency. Pulsating vibration air is introduced into the airtight tank from the bottom of the airtight tank so as to generate air flow going upward through the porous bottom of the airtight tank. As a result, powdered or granular material stored on the porous bottom plate in the airtight tank is uniformly mixed and blended in the airtight tank while continuously moving up and down as in a convectional manner.

Abstract: A vacuum-type automatic dehumidifying and drying apparatus for powdered or granular material such as a pelletized or powdered resin or the like, provided with a drying hopper connected to an evacuating means having at its bottom a material discharge valve, and provided with a material collector communicating with the drying hopper via a material feeding valve above the drying hopper for collecting the powdered material therein. The apparatus comprises a double constructed drying hopper having a cylindrical main body made of a high heat conductivity material provided on its inner peripheral surface with plural fins, which define compartment walls, projecting inwardly and provided on its outer peripheral surface with a heating means surrounding the cylindrical main body.

Abstract: A pulsating vibration air generator in which wave height, frequency and wave shape of the pulsating vibration air can be optionally modified and such pulsating vibration air can be periodically and continuously emitted. The pulsating vibration air generator has a valve chamber with an inlet port and an outlet port where a valve plug and a valve seat with a control opening are provided and a cam mechanism which moves the valve plug to open or close the opening of the valve seat, whereby positive or negative pulsating vibration air is emitted from the outlet port while pressurized air is supplied into the inlet port or air is sucked from the inlet port.

Abstract: A pneumatic transport system for powdered materials for quantifying and pneumatically transferring powdered materials. When materials are fed above an inclined guide plate in a material feeder with its bottom opening closed by a valve plug, a slide damper is slid to divide the materials in the feeder vertically. An open space is formed under the inclined guide plate so that the materials aren't damaged when the slide damper is moved. When the valve plug is retracted, the materials under the slide damper are fed into a transport plug housed in a plug setting portion. The transport plug is pneumatically transported into a material discharge port by compressed air supplied by an air supply. After the transportation is finished, the transport plug is returned into the plug setting portion.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a pulsating air by communicating an air passage intermittently by rotating a valve while feeding air into a casing or discharging air from the casing by a blower connected to a connecting port of the casing. The air passage extends from the connecting port for the blower to a transmitting port of the casing for transmitting a pulsating air. The apparatus for generating a pulsating air is comprised of a casing provided with a connecting port for a blower and a transmitting port for a pulsating air. The connecting port for the blower is connected with a feeding side of the blower or a suction side of the blower. The valve is designed to be operated so as to intermittently communicate the air passage.

Abstract: A rotary sampling apparatus for powdered or granular materials wherein the materials are automatically sampled and pneumatically transported to a predetermined place. A first variant of the present invention is of a rod-like type which has a rod-like body having a measuring table. The rod-like type rotary sampling apparatus is designed to be inserted into a bed of powdered or granular materials through an external wall of a storage container such as a hopper dryer. A second variant of the present invention is of a mounted type rotary sampling apparatus with a measuring table and the apparatus is designed to be incorporated into a mounting pedestal provided with the storage container. In both variants of the present invention, the measuring table is rotated by a rotary actuator, a measuring hole of the measuring table is placed at a material sampling position, and powdered or granular materials are sampled and filled in the measuring hole.

Abstract: An on-line type moisture measuring system for powdered or granular materials wherein the moisture content of the materials is repeatedly measured by supplying a dehumidified and dried air each time the materials are sampled for measuring and thereafter automatically discharged. The system is comprised of a combination of sampling means and a moisture measuring apparatus. The sampling means samples a fixed amount of the materials from a material storage container and pneumatically transports the sampled materials.

Abstract: A transport plug for pneumatically transporting solid materials in a transport pipe by the use of a pressurized transport gas and a pneumatic transport method of solid materials employing the transport plug. The transport plug comprises two bodies consisting of a front body and a rear body defining a material storing space for storing solid materials between the two bodies, at least one supplementary body connected to the rear body, and flexible connecting means coupling said three bodies. A supplementary material storing space is defined between the supplementary body and the rear body. Solid materials are fed into the material storing space of the transport plug, transported through the transport pipe together with the transport plug, and received in a collector under gravitational fall.