With Head, Manifold Or Supply Lowering Means Patents (Class 141/181)
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Patent number: 5226462Abstract: Introducing a measured amount of a liquid into receptacles in a microtiter plate includes locating receptacles in register with the liquid supply. The liquid supply includes pistons and cylinders operated by a stepper motor for adjustable measured and controllable incremental delivery of amounts of liquid simultaneously to the receptacles. A liquid source is located below the support for the receptacles and the receptacles are transversely moveable on a conveyor away from a filling station so that the liquid can be obtained from the liquid source. Pneumatic means moves both the cylinders and the pistons in the liquid supply upwardly and downwardly relative to the receptacles and the liquid source. The stepper motor moves the pistons upwardly and downwardly relative to the receptacles and liquid source.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1991Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Inventor: Richard A. Carl
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Patent number: 5213140Abstract: A drum is filled with two liquids of different densities which are immiscible when combined, such as white phosphorus and water. The drum is positioned on a scale beneath a fill pipe. An actuator lowers the fill pipe into the drum. A quantity of water is injected, followed by a quantity of white phosphorus, followed by a quantity of water to rinse the fill pipe. The fill pipe is raised just out of the liquids and allowed to drip, and then is fully raised to enable the filled drum to be replaced by an empty drum. The white phosphorus is injected at varying flow rates.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1991Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: AtochemInventors: Michel Miscevic, Claude Cochet
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Patent number: 5067531Abstract: A bench top volumetric container filler is provided and consists of a mechanism to pump a predetermined amount of fluid from a reservoir into a container by using a volumetric piston pump operated by a vertical pump driving cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1989Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Inventor: Kenneth Herzog
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Patent number: 5035270Abstract: An automatic conveyorized volumetric container filler is provided and consists of a mechanism to pump a predetermined amount of fluid from a reservoir into containers by using volumetric piston pumps operated by a pump drive cylinder. The containers are automatically conveyed to a plurality of filling nozzles for receiving the fluid therefrom so that after the containers are filled, they can be conveyed away to be capped.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1989Date of Patent: July 30, 1991Inventor: Kenneth J. Herzog
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Patent number: 4942910Abstract: A process and apparatus for making a shaped frozen confection. The apparatus has a plurality of nozzles for extruding the shaped confection in a variety of contoured shapes. The nozzles simultaneously move in a vertical direction and circularly in a horizontal direction, thereby moving in a spiral path to produce a spirally-shaped frozen confection. A variety of differently shaped frozen confections can be made by varying the rate of extrusion from the nozzles, or the rate or direction of vertical movement of the nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1986Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: Fantasy Flavors Inc.Inventor: Akimitsu Hamamura
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Patent number: 4921022Abstract: For filling insulating glass with a special gas, a probe (17) that can be introduced through an opening (25) in the spacer (26) for filling with the special gas, and a device (19) for sealing the opening(s) (25, 27) in the spacer (26) after completion of the filling process are arranged on a joint component (16) on the outlet side of a platen press (1, 2) for applying pressure to the glass plates of the insulating glass. The component (16) can be displaced from a readiness position wherein it is arranged below the conveying route (3, 13) for the insulating glass into a first operative position wherein the probe (17) is associated with the filling openings (25) in the spacer (26) and into a second operative position wherein the device for sealing the openings, which device preferably comprises filling nozzles (19) for feeding sealing compound (28) into the openings to be sealed, is associated with the openings (25, 27) in the spacer (26).Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1988Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Inventor: Peter Lisec
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Patent number: 4915147Abstract: Apparatus for filling fluid products into container which comprises at least one feed line connectable with a reservoir for fluid products and a filling valve connects to the feed line. The filling valve comprises a tubular portion connected with the feed line. The tubular portion comprises, at its free end, a lateral end wall and an aperture. A slide sleeve is reciprocated by a positioning device and is movable coaxially of the tubular portion between open and closed positions. In its closed position, the slide sleeve sealingly engages the end wall to closed the aperture of the tubular portion. In its open position, the slide sleeve opens the aperture for product flow. Means are provided to lower the filling valve into a filling opening of a container positioned underneath the filling valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1988Date of Patent: April 10, 1990Assignee: Dover CorporationInventor: Hubert Skibowski
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Patent number: 4848421Abstract: Pouch filling apparatus having a horizontal rotatable drum, an inclined spout plate rotatably mounted above the drum and a metering wheel mounted above the spout plate. A plurality of duck bill spouts are mounted on the spout plate and a plurality of cams are mounted on the drum. The duck bill spouts carry cam followers that engage the cams as the inclined spout plate moves the spouts downwardly with respect to the drum that carries the cams.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1988Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: R. A. Jones & Co. Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Froese, Mark A. Leonhardt, Michael J. Roy
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Patent number: 4688608Abstract: A filling valve mechanism for cans is presented. The valve includes a sleeve slidably mounted on a pair of pins and limited in downward motion by means of a stop. The sleeve carries an O-ring circumferentially thereabout for engaging within the throat of a container or can to be filled. The O-ring is of slightly greater diameter than the throat of the can such that sealing engagement is achieved. Also carried on the sleeve is a resilient compressible stripping member adapted for engaging the mouth of the can. The stripping member compresses against the mouth of the can, short of full compression by virtue of the limited downward movement of the sleeve against the stop. After the can is filled, the stripping member urges the O-ring from the throat of the can while holding the can in place.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1986Date of Patent: August 25, 1987Assignee: Figgie International, Inc.Inventors: Stanley J. Puskarz, Herbert S. Shalit, Shiva S. Singh
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Patent number: 4674547Abstract: The container filling device includes a first piston slidably mounted within a first cylinder for raising and lowering a nozzle into and out of operative engagement with a container to be filled. A sealing ring is mounted on the lower end of the first piston for sealing engagement with the rim of a container to be filled and a passage is provided for allowing gas pressure within the container to enter the bottom of the first cylinder to provide a pressure differential on the first piston depending upon the diameter of the container. A second piston is slidably mounted for vertical reciprocating movement within a second cylinder and is operatively connected to the first piston. First and second pneumatic pressure supplies are connected to the second cylinder above and below the second piston for regulating the pressure applied between the sealing ring on the first piston and the rim of a container being filled.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1985Date of Patent: June 23, 1987Inventor: Andriano Simonazzi
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Patent number: 4494583Abstract: An improved bung alignment mechanism for liquid filling apparatus is characterized by an infrared sensor which aligns the vertical axis of the filling lance and bung. The apparatus includes a wheeled carriage which moves along a stanchion, the carriage being operatively associated with the filling lance. A wiper ring assembly, a drip collection assembly, and a fume disposal assembly which contains or entraps substantially all sources of fume generation are also provided as part of the filler apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1983Date of Patent: January 22, 1985Assignee: Velasco Scale CompanyInventors: Robert H. Reeves, Jr., Don G. Chandler, H. A. Jorgensen
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Patent number: 4359072Abstract: Associated with a horizontal pouch making machine for packaging a free flowing granular product between webs of flexible packaging material is a product lay down mechanism operable for receiving measured amounts of the product and depositing it in precisely defined areas of one of the webs being processed and in a flattened configuration such as to minimize the amount of packaging material required to contain said product. A product shaping member contacting the web surface during a dwell in the web feed cycle is formed with apertures which in combination with the web define cavities or molds which shape each deposit of product delivered thereto into the desired configuration having uniform height over substantially the entire surface area of the web portion upon which it is laid.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1980Date of Patent: November 16, 1982Assignee: General Foods CorporationInventors: Robert F. Bardsley, William M. Marks
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Patent number: 4313476Abstract: A filling machine for filling containers with a fluid product by the use of filling nozzles with two substantially parallel filling channels which are formed in part by two separate conveyors, with a vacuum filling mechanism connected with the filling nozzles, with a support for the filling nozzles, with a mechanism for lowering and raising the nozzle support and therewith the filling nozzles into and out of containers held stationary under the filling nozzles, with an indexing mechanism for determining the correct number of containers to be filled at the same time in a respective channel during a given filling operation while held stationary in their filling positions, with a reciprocating mechanism for the nozzle support to alternately place the filling nozzles over the containers to be filled in one channel and after completion of the filling operation to move the nozzle support over the other channel to fill the containers which have been brought into filling position in the meantime in the other channelType: GrantFiled: October 26, 1979Date of Patent: February 2, 1982Assignee: National Instrument Company, Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Bennett, Lawrence W. Buckley
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Patent number: 4306595Abstract: A device for loading a dosage layer of material, preferably concrete, at a laying-down position for manufacturing tiles and the like comprising, a conveyor for supplying a continuous layer of the material, a bell having a diaphragm and edges surrounding the diaphragm defining a dosage space for receiving a dosage layer of the material and a driving unit for driving the bell to move it into engagement with the continuous layer on the conveyor to receive a dosage layer of material in the dosage space. A suction pump is connected to the interior of the bell for establishing an underpressure therein so that the dosage layer of material is held by suction in the dosage space. A plurality of the bells may be provided on a single turret so that one dosage layer of material is being drawn up while another dosage layer of material is being laid down at another location.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1979Date of Patent: December 22, 1981Assignee: Centro di Ricerca Enrico Longinotti Firenze S.p.A.Inventor: Alfredo Longinotti
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Patent number: 4294294Abstract: An automatic high-speed filling machine with lowerable nozzles for simultaneously filling a predetermined number of containers, in which the control of the machine is transferred to the star wheel of the indexing mechanism, when the star wheel is released after completion of the filling operation; the drive actuating the filling units is thereby stopped while the star wheel performs its indexing function during rotation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1980Date of Patent: October 13, 1981Assignee: National Instrument Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard N. Bennett
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Patent number: 4142561Abstract: A filling machine for filling containers with a product that is not liquid at normal room temperature, in which the filling nozzle or nozzles to be lowered into a respective container as well as the associated filling units are housed within a temperature-controlled chamber, in which the temperature is maintained such that the product supplied in liquid condition remains in substantially liquid condition during its passage through the filling unit and discharge nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1977Date of Patent: March 6, 1979Assignee: National Instrument Company, Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Bennett, Lawrence W. Buckley
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Patent number: 4094344Abstract: An apparatus for mending surface irregularities of wooden plates such as those of plywood is provided. Recesses on a plate are automatically filled with putty by this apparatus. Putty is pressurized and the filling of the recesses therewith is controlled by a plurality of needles provided to detect these recesses. In this way, irregularities on a plate are effectively and automatically smoothed regardless of their shape or size.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1976Date of Patent: June 13, 1978Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.Inventor: Katsuji Hasegawa
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Patent number: 4073322Abstract: A high-speed filling machine for filling a fluid product into small containers, in which a continuously moving conveyor belt brings empty containers to their filling position underneath filling nozzles, where the empty containers are held stationary by an indexing mechanism while the filling nozzles are lowered into the empty containers, the fluid product is discharged into the containers and upon completion of discharge stroke of the filling units, the nozzles are again raised whereafter the indexing mechanism will release the filled containers for further movement by the conveyor belt; the single channel from the inlet end thereby branches out into two parallel channels upstream of the filling station, each provided with its own indexing mechanism, while a nozzle support structure which raises and lowers the filling nozzles into the containers, is also adapted to reciprocate so that alternately the empty containers in one channel and then in the other channel are filled.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1976Date of Patent: February 14, 1978Assignee: National Instrument Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard Nelson Bennett
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Patent number: 4000765Abstract: A container-filling machine having a cut-off valve positioned above the container to be filled and a retractable filler spout movable down through said valve to the bottom of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1976Date of Patent: January 4, 1977Assignee: Simplex Filler Co.Inventor: George C. Lydiksen
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Patent number: RE32074Abstract: A high-speed filling machine for filling a fluid product into small containers, in which a continuously moving conveyor belt brings empty containers to their filling position underneath filling nozzles, where the empty containers are held stationary by an indexing mechanism while the filling nozzles are lowered into the empty containers, the fluid product is discharged into the containers and upon completion of discharge stroke of the filling units, the nozzles are again raised whereafter the indexing mechanism will release the filled containers for further movement by the conveyor belt; the single channel from the inlet end thereby branches out into two parallel channels upstream of the filling station, each provided with its own indexing mechanism, while a nozzle support structure which raises and lowers the filling nozzles into the containers, is also adapted to reciprocate so that alternately the empty containers in one channel and then in the other channel are filled.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1979Date of Patent: January 28, 1986Assignee: National Instrument Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard N. Bennett