Plural Counterweights Patents (Class 177/252)
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Patent number: 10132673Abstract: A livestock management system is provided that spray marks animals for sorting or market weight selection. The system includes a pen area partitioned into a feeding area containing at least one feeder and a common watering area containing at least one waterer. A walk-through scale has an inlet open to the watering area and an outlet open to the feeding area. The walk-through scale has a weighing device that determines if the animal is within the specified set weight for marking. The weighing device determines the weight of the animal as the animal center of mass crosses the center of the weighing platform. The system allows spray marking of the animal to be done in a stress free environment that improves overall growth potential.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Osborne Industries, Inc.Inventor: George R. Eakin
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Patent number: 7348502Abstract: A platform balance includes a first frame support and a second frame support movable relative to the first frame support. At least one counter balance assembly is provided to support the static weight of the first frames support and elements connected thereto. The counterbalance assembly includes a beam and a pivot assembly allowing the beam to pivot. A weight is selectively positionable on the beam. A compliant assembly is supported by the beam on a portion thereof on a side of the pivot assembly opposite the weight. The compliant assembly supports the first frame support. The compliant assembly includes a second pivot assembly and a planar motion assembly coupled to the second pivot assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2006Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: MTS Systems CorporationInventors: Richard A. Meyer, Ian T. Kunsch, Christopher P. Zupancich, Bradley C. Litz
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Patent number: 6509534Abstract: A lightweight, portable scale, including a balance beam pivotally positioned on a fulcrum, contained in a tear-drop shaped carrying case. The portable scale has a load pan on one end of the balance beam and a graduated scale, configured to accommodate sliding weight members, extending toward the opposite end of the balance beam. The fulcrum is positioned between the load pan and the graduated scale. To establish equilibrium, the balance beam includes a stationary counter-weight attached on the load pan side of the fulcrum, which balances the empty load pan against the sliding weight members located at a zero position on the graduated scale. The carrying case has a top portion hingedly attached to a bottom portion, which functions as the base of the portable scale and has sidewalls shorter than the fulcrum, preventing interference by the side walls during the weighing process.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2000Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Inventor: Mohan Thadani
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Publication number: 20020139590Abstract: The invention—Ayurvedic Scale—is a machine that physically represents or models the philosophical essence of the ancient science and philosophy of Ayurveda in the form of a tri-armed scale. The Ayurvedic Scale's primary function is to assist users in determining and visually representing their current spiritual state as well as their underlying Ayurvedic body type, which are both helpful in evaluating immediate choices using Ayurvedic philosophy. It also serves to act as a visual model in helping users to more clearly understand the complexities of Ayurveda, to provide a physical reminder of Ayurveda's suggested foci in the user's life, and to act as a decorative model, which reflects the owner's interest in Ayurveda. The invention is meant to embody two of Ayurveda's core foci—simplicity and balance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventor: Daniel K. Pivinski
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Patent number: 5753869Abstract: A panel having a suspending hook at a lower end thereof slidably receives an optimum-weight comparison chart. The hook is used to support a basket or sling in which a child is held for weighing. A spring-loaded limb overlies the panel, and has a stylus in an end thereof, with a second hook at the opposite end thereof. The second hook is used to suspend the panel from a tree branch, a beam, or such, and the weight of a child causes the panel to descend, against the biasing of the spring-loaded limb. The stylus is depressed to make a hole in the chart for comparison with an optimum trajectory of weight/development of children of like age, and to keep a record of the measured weight, and to track weight gain or loss with successive weighings and stylus hole-punching of the chart.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1996Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Inventor: Richard Hollerith, Jr.
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Patent number: 4223750Abstract: The weighing instrument has a receiving tray and an index mark displaceable in front of a fixed dial graduated in weight. It comprises means enabling the user to place, in a position enabling it to operate in association with said index mark, any one of several removable scales which are calibrated, for categories of foods of similar characteristics, in at least one of the magnitudes involved in dietetics and proportional to the weight of the foodstuffs placed on the tray. The instrument is useful in feeding in cases of obesity, diabetes, low calorie, low sugar, low protein, low fat or low residue, etc. diets.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1978Date of Patent: September 23, 1980Assignees: Jean-Jacques Menage, Francois Le BarsInventor: Jean-Claude Perego
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Patent number: 4095658Abstract: A fluid collection, dispensing and measurement device for use in connection with a blood container, for example, and flexible tubing leading thereto. A hollow balance bar, with mobile spherical weights disposed therein is provided and rapid, forceful cut off of the blood flow through the flexible tubing is achieved when the moment created by the filling blood container, accentuated by the motion of the spherical weights, overcomes the moment produced by a preset adjustable counter weight. An adjustable clamping apparatus allows the fluid collection device to be affixed to a stationary object and subsequently adjusted to a level plane to insure accuracy of measurement. A simple modification of the device allows it to be used as a fluid dispensing device. A full container of fluid can be hung on the modified device and a measured quantity of fluid can be dispensed with cut off being achieved as described above.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1976Date of Patent: June 20, 1978Assignee: Iso AB, Inc.Inventors: Ray Kendall, Burt Henry McGhee
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Patent number: 4043414Abstract: In a weighing scale in which compensating weights may be attached to or removed from a weighing pan assembly to adjust the combined mass of the assembly, of an object on the weighing pan that is to be weighed, and of the attached compensating weights within range of an indicating device, the adjusting arrangement includes a carrier on which guides defining respective paths of longitudinal sliding movement for the elongated compensating means, and a stop limits the sliding movement of each weight in a fixed, lowermost position, the paths being inclined relative to the horizontal at a preferred angle of 10.degree. - 20.degree..Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1976Date of Patent: August 23, 1977Assignee: Mettler Instrumente AGInventor: Andreas Stutz