Abstract: A checkweigher with a belt conveyor includes at least two belt conveyor sections which are arranged one behind the other in conveying direction, wherein one of the conveyor sections is a weighing bridge. The individual conveyor sections include a plurality of conveying belts which travel on a sliding surface and are guided around guide rollers at the ends of the conveyor sections. Sliding fingers formed by extensions of the sliding surface are provided adjacent the conveying belts, wherein the sliding fingers substantially bridge the gap between the adjacent conveyor sections.

Abstract: An electronic balance with a system carrier (1) fixed to the housing, a load receiver (2) with two guide rods (3/4) which function as parallel guide, connect the load receiver to the system carried in a vertically movable manner, with four protruding arms (5, 6) which are fastened to the load receiver (2) and carry supports points (7, 8, 9, 10) for a balance scale on their ends and with a low-travel measured value receiver (14, 15) which is loaded either directly by the force of weight acting on the balance scale or with the interpositioning of a translation lever (11). The protruding arms (5, 6) comprise a central recess (19, 20) in front of their ends (17, 18) so that an upper web (21, 23) and a lower web (22, 24) remain and form a parallel guide for the particular support point (7, 8, 9, 10) of the balance scale. Each of the four support points (7, 8, 9, 10) of the balance scale is associated with a wire strain gauge (27, 28, 29, 30) located on one of the associated webs (21, 23).

Abstract: An electronic balance with scale on top and with parallel guide rods whereby corner-load errors can be corrected by means of the inclusion of at least one leaf spring which is fastened to a load receiver and is supported on the other end on a fixed point of the housing. The magnitude of the correction can be adapted to the corner-load error of the unadjusted parallel guide by means of the selection of the spring stiffness of the leaf spring and/or by means of its effective length.

Abstract: In an electronic balance with a scale on top with two guide rods which connect a load receiver to a system carrier fixed to the housing as parallel guide, with at least one translation lever which is connected to the system carrier by means of two springs and with a coupling element (9) which transfers the force corresponding to the mass of the weighed material from the load receiver to the shorter lever arm of the translation lever while the counteracting force imposes on the longer lever arm of the translation lever.

Abstract: An electronic balance with a weighing scale which is connected via a parallel guide to a system carrier, and with a translation lever which is rotatably mounted on the system carrier and onto the shorter lever arm of which the force of the weight acting on the balance scale is transferred via a coupling element and on the longer arm of which the coil of an electromagnetic compensation of force is fastened, that at least one spring touches the translation lever for the purpose of astatization, the line of application of which spring passes through the point of rotation of the translation lever. This results in a compact design and a good efficiency of astatization. It is advantageous to use a wire or a band and/or a laterally jutting-out projection on the translation lever as spring.

Abstract: There is disclosed a balance based on the principle of the electromagnetic compensation of force with a cylindrical permanent magnet system, with a magnet cover and with a coil for generating the counteracting force that an emitter and a receiver of the optical position sensor be housed inside the magnet cover. The slit diaphragm of the optical position sensor, which extends from below into the area between emitter and receiver, then forms a compact unit with a carrier, e.g., the end of a translation lever, and with a coil and mutual shifts at temperature changes and temperature gradients occur only to a minimal extent.

Abstract: The invention discloses an electronic balance with a scale on top, a balance scale, a balance scale carrier, two identical guide rods (7,8) which connect in an articulated manner the balance scale carrier and the balance scale in the form of a parallel guide to a system carrier (1/5) fixed to the housing and with at least one corner-load adjustment lever (22') which is connected to the system carrier via a thin area (24) and which carries a support point in the vicinity of this thin area (24) for the end of a guide rod (7) on the system carrier that the corner-load adjustment lever (22') is bent at right angles between the support point of the guide rod (7) and the thin area (24) to the system carrier (1,5) in such a manner that the moving joint (17) of the guide rod (7) and this thin area (24) are at the same height.

Abstract: In a parallel rod guide for electronic balances having a measured value sensor, typically corner load adjustments are made by adjusting the parallelism of the two rods and such adjustments are normally sufficient. However, this can eliminate only linearly load-dependent corner load errors. In order to eliminate corner load errors which are non-linearly dependent on the load, the present invention provides an adjustment assembly which varies the resilience of the fastening points on the system carrier side of at least one rod to horizontal forces. The adjustment assembly may comprise, a screw/nut connection whose position can be varied vertically therewith, varying the effective length of a resilient intermediate part.

Abstract: In a spring body which is manufactured from a cubical piece, intended for a balance with an upper scale, divided into an upper and a lower guide bar by a horizontal opening extending all the way through it so that the spring body also forms the parallel guide for the balance scale, and which has wire strain gauges at thin spots in the areas of at least one guide bar the width of the spring body is divided at least in the area of the guide bars into two partial areas by a vertical opening which extends all the way through it and does not contact the edge. The vertical opening can have various shapes. The wide spring body has the advantages of in sensitivity to errors caused by off center loading and allowing the scale to be connected to the parallel-guided part of the spring body at two or three points, which reduces the stability requirements of the scale. The strain gauge are advantageously distributed so that one half of them is on each of the two areas of spring body.

Abstract: An electric inclination meter is built into a high-resolution electric balance with a measured value receiver, a microprocessor for digital signal processing and with a digital display. This inclination meter compensates the inclination-dependent errors of the balance. The inclination meter can have a movable suspended mass or it can have a container which is partially filled with liquid, thus forming a gas bubble. The positional deviation of the movable elements can be picked up optically or inductively.

Abstract: An electronic weighing apparatus having a load pan, a load receiver forming part of a parallel construction and supporting the pan, weight compensating means, and at least one force-transmitting lever having a short arm and a longer arm, connected at its short arm to take up the force transmitted by the load pan, and connected at its longer arm with the weight compensating means, wherein a built-in calibrating device includes a calibrating lever having an arm connected via a coupling element in force transmitting relation with the load receiver such that the force-transmitting connection can be selectively established or broken.

Abstract: An electromagnetically compensating measuring apparatus, as in force measuring or weighing devices, wherein a compensation coil is wound upon a coil form movable in the air gap of a stationary permanent magnet system having a pole plate, a capacitive position sensor is connected to detect the position of the compensation coil, and an automatic volume control amplifier is series-connected to the position sensor so as to follow it, with the output of the amplifier connected to feed the compensation coil to tend to hold it in a predetermined zero position, and wherein the coil form and the pole plate each form an electrode of the position sensor.

Abstract: A parallel construction, particularly for a top-loading balance with elecmagnetic force compensation, has two essentially identical, preferably trapezoidal, movable guides in parallel horizontal planes. The guides are mounted permanently at one end and connected together by a movable rigid connecting element at the other end. The two guides are displaced relative to one another in their planes at right angles to their axis of rotation.

Abstract: An electromagnetic, compensating force-measuring or weighing device having at least one working coil movable in an air gap of a magnet system. At least two members for temperature compensation are positioned at different, spaced apart points. The compensating effect of these members on the active part of the system jointly produce a temperature compensating value which is optionally approximately equal to the exact value of the actual temperature curve. The members may be in the form of a plurality of minute particles of nonretentive material having a high negative coefficient of saturation magnetization distributed in the active part. The members may be formed of the afore-mentioned material and be positioned on the active part or be PTC or NTC resistors so positioned.

Abstract: A beamless dynamometer or weighing device comprising a coil movable in the orking gap of a fixed magnet, the coil and magnet forming part of an electromagnetic compensation circuit for the dynamometer or device, and an arrangement for guiding movement of the coil within the working gap comprising an air bearing formed of a fixed guiding cylinder and an air-mounted slidable sleeve connected to the coil; preferably two coils are provided, each connected to a separate slidable sleeve, one sleeve being disposed inside the cylinder and the other sleeve outside the cylinder with the cylinder being formed of an annular jacket suppliable with compressed air which, in use, vents into the gap between the sleeves and cylinder, one sleeve being arranged to be acted upon by the force or mass to be measured and the other sleeve carrying a reference mass.

Abstract: A beamless dynamometer or weighing machine has a work coil positioned in a working air gap of a magnet arrangement. A pair of elastic links of trapezoid-shaped construction are attached to a bracing part. The median axis of the work coil is arranged within a trapezoid bounded by arms and sides of the links. The magnet arrangement is positioned in space bounded by the links.