Patents by Inventor Andrew R. Salmonsen

Andrew R. Salmonsen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4344493
    Abstract: A high-speed weighing and conveying system, suitable for use in filling soup cans and weighing each as it passes over a weigh platform to a can closer. The open-topped cans slide smoothly and in positive index at all times through a filler and then, in sequence, to an accelerating screw conveyor, to a weigh conveyor which guides them as they slide over the weighing platform, to another screw conveyor, and to a further conveyor which delivers them at the proper times to a closer; an automatic rejector is preferably positioned between the second screw conveyor and the closer to remove from the train of cans, prior to the closer, any can which with its contents has an unacceptable weight. The top portion of the weighing platform is in the form of a longitudinally extending channel member, and the weigh conveyor comprises a pair of rails extending through the channel to support a pair of roller chains having outwardly-extending spaced lugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: Campbell Soup Company
    Inventors: Andrew R. Salmonsen, William J. Feehery, Jr.