Abstract: A system for filling a container with relatively long thin tubes that are delivered on a tube conveyor. The system has a generally tubular-shaped insert with an at least partially open top and an open bottom, the insert sized and shaped to fit into the container and defining a width that is slightly larger than the length of the tubes and an insert holder that is adapted to engage the insert to hold the insert in place. There is a lift system that moves the container between an engaged position in which the container is located over the insert and a disengaged position in which the container is free from the insert, and movable clamps adapted to be moved between an engaged position in which they hold the container in position relative to the insert and a disengaged position in which the container can be moved relative to the insert. A pivot system pivots the insert holder about a pivot axis that is generally parallel to the longitudinal axes of the tubes.

Abstract: A device for measuring a hard granular object. The device includes a measuring vessel, a holder, a shutter, and a pressing means for pressing the holder against the measuring vessel. The measuring vessel includes a first face, a second face parallel to the first face, and a space formed between the first and second faces for receiving hard granular object supplied from first face side. The holder is located on the side of the first face., includes a through hole communicable with the space, and is slidable along the first face. The shutter is located on the side of the second face, includes a through hole communicable with the space, and is movable parallel to the second face.

Abstract: The device includes a pair of passages (4--4') meeting at a top neck (5) communicating with and coupled laterally to the outlet of the mill (1). The junction between the passages (4--4') has a hinged trapdoor (7) which in a stable position seals one of the passages whilst holding the other one open.

Abstract: An apparatus is used to focus a stream of pressurized air into an oil filter thereby opening any one way valve in the oil filter and forcing the waste oil out of the oil filter. The oil is then drained into a sealed oil barrel. The apparatus consists of an inlet funnel at the top, a fluid collection convergence funnel and a threaded hollow discharge spigot at the bottom of the funnel, which is designed for convenient attachment into a threaded open port of a standard oil drum. The throat of the fluid collection convergence funnel above the inlet of the discharge spigot has a chamber which is fitted with a hollow threaded holder for retaining a used oil filter cartridge. The chamber has passages for directing the pressurized air connected to a conventional general service compressed air hose fitted with an on/off trigger valve. The passages connect to the inlet passages on the retained oil filter cartridge.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling finely powdered material into a long and narrow cavity or hole having a relatively small opening is provided. The apparatus features a discharge port for a particulate laden gas stream directed toward the opening of the hole to be filled but spaced apart from the opening of the cavity to be filled by a gap, so that in operation the powdered material continues across the gap and into the cavity due to its inertia while the gas escapes through the gap.

Abstract: A piston-type multi-station rotary filling machine having improved reliability and consistency of operation. The filling machine includes a nozzle assembly for a filler with a product port which includes a nozzle body with a rectangular nozzle that intersects the product port. A plunger having a complementary rectangular cross-section and with a knife edge on the side adjacent to the port is reciprocably mounted within the nozzle. The knife edge cleanly cuts tough food products to facilitate accurate dispensing of the food products.

Abstract: A meat stuffing machine that operates under vacuum conditions during loading for the purpose of improving the homogeneity of the final product. The machine consists of: a tank supported on a machine frame, which includes a duct connecting it to a vacuum source, a duct for loading meat, and a recess on a side of the tank which houses a pneumatic cylinder used to push the meat product toward the bottom of the tank. An interchangeable gauging cavity contains a pusher means operated by a pneumatic cylinder. The gauging cavity is connected to a plate that is slidably secured to a flat wall of the machine frame, which has an aperture connecting to the tank and a second aperture that leads to a hollow tube that supports a casing. Once the gauging cavity is filled with meat product it slides to the second aperture and fills the casing supported by the hollow tube.

Abstract: The arrangement comprises a housing (1), a hopper (2) containing a powder and communicating with the interior of the housing (1), and a slide valve (11) having a drive (9) mounted inside the housing (1) and provided with a powder-metering cavity in the form of a recess (12).The housing has through passages for feeding compressed gas, and conveying the powder from the hopper (2) to the recess (12) and from the recess to the barrel. The slide valve (11) is arranged at the top part of the housing (1) and resiliently urged thereto in the zone of outlet holes of the passages. The arrangement also has a shut-off unit (18) connected to the slide valve (11) to block the outlet hole (8) of the passage for feeding the powder from the recess (12) to the barrel in one of extreme positions of the slide valve (11), in the other extreme position thereof the powder-metering cavity (12) communicates with the outlet hole (8) of the passage conveying the powder to the barrel.

Abstract: A machine for introducing a quantity of powder into a plurality of containers. The machine includes a powder transporting member, which has a plurality of downwardly open chambers, and a container transporting member located below the powder transporting member. The powder transporting member and the container transporting member are continuously rotated in unison about a substantially vertical axis. The machine includes a reservoir for powder with which the chambers communicate during part of the rotation of the powder transporting member. A vacuum is applied to the chambers to cause powder to be drawn therein. Powder from each chamber is discharged into a container carried by the container transporting member.

Abstract: A loose material recovery apparatus such as for recovering foam plastic packaging elements has an overhead bin for containing the material. The bin has a storage chamber for storing the material and an outlet from which the material in the bin is dispensed. A vacuum assembly above the storage chamber includes a container having a bottom door, an actuating member, and a motor. A storage compartment is defined within the container between the motor and the bottom door. The bottom door is mounted for movement between a closed position for retaining the material in the storage compartment and an open position allowing the material to fall from the compartment into the bin storage chamber. When the motor is energized movement is imparted to the actuating member to close the bottom door and create a vacuum in the storage compartment for drawing material to be recovered into the compartment through a suction hose.

Abstract: A process for feeding an injection molding machine including polyester processing with a plastic material to be processed comprising the steps of placing the plastic material to be processed into a container having two opposed open ends and closing these open ends with removable covers. There is provided a frame which is pivotable between intake and discharge positions around an axis supported between a pair of spaced parallel surfaces and there are means on the frame for carrying the containers. The closed container is placed on the carrying means in an intake position and the covers are retracted from the container ends. The swivel frame is pivoted to displace the open ended container of plastic material between the two parallel spaced surfaces from the intake position into a discharge position at the feed cylinder of the machine. The parallel surfaces are spaced the length of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling an open-top foundry flask with discrete refractory particles by pluviation to embed an expendable pattern to form a lost foam casting mold comprises conduits for directing pressurized gas toward the prepositioned pattern within the flask to deflect pluviating particles and thereby promote uniform packing of the particles about the pattern. The conduits comprise compressed air conduits vertically insertable into the flask through the open top thereof for disposition about the pattern and having multiple orifices for directing pressurized air laterally toward the pattern to achieve the desired uniform packing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for dosingly filling of fluent or pasty filling material into a container. The arrangement has a housing in which a control element is rotatably mounted. A feed and outlet passage for the filling material is alternately unblocked and a reciprocating dosing piston is provided in the housing. For purposes of achieving a compact and simple construction and a simple assembly, as well as for achieving a good cleaning, the housing is hermetically sealed on all of its sides and the control element is in the form of a rotational cylinder operatively mounted in the region of the feed and outlet passages for the filling material. The dosing cylinder is coaxially mounted with respect to the rotational cylinder and is provided with a piston rod so that the dosing piston is slidably movable within the housing.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A dental amalgam dispenser unit having a detachable discharge head, the dispenser having a plunger with a front amalgam-advancing tip and rearwardly disposed ratchet teeth and a pawl comprising a slidably mounted sleeve and a cantilever spring projecting rearwardly therefrom. A dental amalgam loader assembly is also described for loading the dispenser discharge head. The loader has a plunger and advancing means for advancing the forward portion of the loading plunger a predetermined distance into the bore of the dispenser head.

Abstract: An apparatus for charging a plastic mass such as dental amalgam through an opening of and into the hollow interior of a capsule such as a magazine for a tooth-filling appliance has a support formed with an elongated passage defining a longitudinal axis and having an outlet end, with a seat at the outlet end snugly interfittable with the capsule over the opening thereof, and with a storage chamber adapted to hold the mass and extending transversely from the passage. A piston is reciprocal axially within the passage between a retracted position to the opposite side of the chamber as the outlet end and in an advanced position as least substantially past the chamber toward the outlet end. This piston is axially displaceable in the passage between these positions for displacing a charge of the mass from the chamber axially along the passage and out of the outlet end into the capsule through the opening thereof.