Abstract: Method for anticipatory regulation of energy flows in an electrical supply grid of an automation installation, which includes a number of connecting devices that are connected to the electrical supply grid, wherein the connecting devices exchange information with respect to their energy requirements or their energy supply among one another and the connecting devices exchange energy among one another based on the information.

Abstract: A belt conveyor with a machine head rib. At a machine head of the belt conveyor, two annular ribs (1, 2) are sleeved from two sides of an upper supporting roller (5) near the machine head to two sides of a machine head roller (4). A conveying belt (3) is pressed on horizontal edges (1-1, 1-2) and between the two ribs from the upper supporting roller (5) near the machine head to the lowest point of the machine head roller (4) through the machine head roller (4). Protruding vertical sides (1-1, 2-1) of the ribs are higher than the conveying belt. The belt conveyor with a machine head rib has a simple structure, is easy to be installed, has low costs and large conveying capacity and is widely used. In addition to conveying minerals, it can be applied to a belt conveyor with ribs and a trough-type belt conveyor currently.

Abstract: A belt conveyor, a collecting hopper and a screw conveyor are sequentially disposed below a chute for feeding hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets from a pelletizing portion. Even when the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets fed onto the belt conveyor are dropped off or scattered, the hydrogenated petroleum resin pellets can be collected by the collecting hopper that is located below and can be securely transferred to an outside by the screw conveyor.

Abstract: An improved feed mechanism for a processor of solid objects includes a plunging paddle connected via connectors and eccentrics to a rotating shaft driven by a motor. The rotating shaft has an axis offset from the centers of the eccentrics. The plunging paddle plunges product on a conveyor belt from a feed tank to create a single layer for conveying the product to a processor.

Abstract: A device is described for conveying sticks in an apparatus for inserting sticks into ice cream bodies, said device comprising guide means in which the sticks are supplied in the form of an elongate stack of sticks, and from which guide means the sticks are destacked singly, said device further comprising a conveying belt, said destacked sticks being deposited in a pocket on said conveying belt moving past the exit aperture of the guide means, said conveying belt comprising a plurality of pockets, wherein each pocket has a longitudinal surface for housing a part of one stick, and each pocket furthermore has at least two guide pins projecting upwards on each side of said longitudinal surface. Hereby the sticks are handled without problems, even at high rates of destacking and conveying, and even if the sticks are skewed or in other manner deviate from a standard stick having dimensions and shape in common with at least the majority of the sticks in a given stack.

Abstract: A method for forming a number of side by side lying rows of objects such as for producing sandwich biscuits. Firstly the products being supplied to the even channels are turned over and, as well as the not turned over products are brought on a conveyor belt. In a second step by means of a continuous rotatable first roller positioned above the conveyor belt and being provided with pins a product can be released from each channel and the next product can be stopped for the formation of rows of turned over and not turned over products running in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the conveyor belt. Thereupon by means of rollers at least one of which is movable in axial direction, the turned over and not turned over products are moved in longitudinal and transverse direction to obtain alternate transverse rows of turned over and not turned over products.

Abstract: A tablet package conveying apparatus for a tablet automatic packing machine is disclosed. The apparatus can offset a speed difference among conveyed tablet packages while they are conveyed, such that the conveyed tablet packages discharged from the lower side of the tablet automatic packing machine can be more smoothly conveyed to the side wall of the tablet automatic packing machine.

Abstract: The invention starts with a hopper (1) where the objects are randomly introduced, with a bottom (2) tilted towards an adjustable outlet opening (3), arranged under the latter there is a unitary metering device (5) leading to a discharge plate (22) of a grooved front edge (23) so as to intertwine with blades (11) of a lifting means (6), wherein said plates are spaced by a magnitude which is not quite twice the width of the objects to be handled, a lifting means ending at a transfer mechanism consisting of a conveyor (27), also with grooved blades (28) acting on a base plate (29) framed by two rails (30) guiding the objects towards a drop opening (17), with means which make the objects swing during their fall so that they adopt the correct position when they reach an exit conveyor (41), between two side walls (34), another conveyor (36) collaborating with said conveyor (41), the former provided with a plurality of pushing means (35) spaced by a magnitude in accordance with the width of the objects to be conveye

Abstract: The present invention relates to a disposable conveyor for use with an apparatus handling contamination-sensitive discrete items. The conveyor has at least one cavity, each cavity capable to carry at least one discrete item. The conveyor is adapted to be mounted on the contamination-sensitive apparatus that, in operation, is capable to impart movement to the conveyor for displacing the conveyor, and its cavities, along a predetermined path. The present invention also relates to a method for transporting discrete items in a machine performing production runs with different types of contamination-sensitive discrete items. The method involves installing a conveyor as described above on the machine and using it to perform a first production run with a first type of discrete items. The conveyor is then disposed of and a new conveyor installed on the machine, used to perform a second production run with a second type of discrete items, different from the first type.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a system for unloading bulk material from a ship, which system includes: an elevating conveyor having a first, inclined section to raise bulk material from a lower space in the hull of the ship to a point above the deck thereof at the distal end of the elevating conveyor; the elevating conveyor having at the proximal end thereof a second section over which is disposed a single row of discharge gates generally parallel to the centerline of the ship and connected to the bottoms of a first plurality of hoppers which contain a first portion of bulk material, so as to selectively discharge the first portion onto the second section; cross conveyors to discharge a second portion of bulk material onto the cross conveyors; parallel conveyors generally parallel to the centerline to discharge the second portion onto the cross conveyors; each of the parallel conveyors being disposed underneath a row of discharge gates connected to bottoms of a second plurality of hoppers containing the second p

Abstract: A skirtboard apron for a belt conveyor is formed as an elongated molded or extruded elastomer member having a U-shaped upper mounting portion that slides onto the lower part of a skirtboard; the legs of the U-shaped mounting portion grip the sides of the skirtboard. A wiper portion of the apron, integral with the mounting portion, projects down into engagement with the conveyor belt. No fasteners are required, and no wear adjustments are necessary.

Abstract: A concreting train consists of a plurality of wagons supporting a mixer, a multiple conveyor arrangement and separate containers for cement and aggregate. A container for cement has at least one integrated conveyor worm. All container wagons are provided with inclined conveyor belts which extend below the containers and overlap one another. On separate pathes aggregate and cement are supplied into a housing of the mixer wagon. The housing is supported on a weighing frame in order to additively weigh the mixing components. The housing contains a mixing shaft operatively connected with a drive motor. The housing is mounted for reciprocating movement along an inclined angled track in order to lift the housing on a higher level for discharging the concrete into a hopper of a concrete pump.

Abstract: The invention refers to a transport device, which incorporates an endless belt. At the supply position for the objects to be transported, this belt has an ascending direction and is provided with mobile rollers at a certain distance above the belt and spaced apart so much that there is space only for one object between two adjacent rollers.

Abstract: A feeder of bulk materials (fuel) comprises according to the invention, a conveyor and a batcher, the case whereof is separated into at least three sections, wherein the case of the batcher incorporates drives having output shafts, each section uses a band for transferring bulk material, with bands in one section moving in opposite direction to bands in other sections, and the sections using the bands of one direction of movement are arranged alternately with the sections using the bands of opposite direction, with the drive of the sections using the bands of the same direction made common to them and furnished with output shafts coupled with shafts of the sections through clutches serving for coupling and uncoupling the drives and shafts, with the batcher case incorporating a receiver tube in the top part thereof for receiving free-flowing material, and an outlet tube in the bottom part thereof serving for delivery of bulk material from the batcher to the conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for the aerobic decomposition of garbage, sludge, and similar organic waste materials having a reaction container (10) with vertically descending walls for the material to be decomposed, a discharge opening (12) extending over the entire cross section of the container (10), discharge elements (14) extending over the entire area of the discharge opening, and a removal device below the opening extending over the entire area of the discharge opening. A bi-directionally driven conveyor belt (16) transports the material to be removed from the discharge opening (12) into a first receptacle (22) which receives the material that has not been adequately purified or a second receptacle (24) for purified material. The conveyor belt (16) is preferably provided with cleansing devices (26).

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for blending flowable solid materials. These are conveyed in turn, conveniently over a belt weigher, to a tripper mounted above a hopper so as to build up a first charge consisting of a plurality of inclined contiguous bands each of a different material. A paddle feeder removes material in a series of passes along the bottom of the first charge, the material removed being conveyed again to the tripper for discharge into a second hopper adjacent the first, thereby to build up a second charge also consisting of a plurality of inclined contiguous bands each of a different material. A second paddle feeder then removes material in a series of passes along the second charge to form the final blend.

Abstract: A vibratory apparatus for de-piling or unpiling a mass of particulate material. The apparatus is to be positioned in a recess or opening in a base (presumably the ground) and particulate material piled thereover. Upon being vibrated, the apparatus delivers the material from a pile at a regulated rate into a conveyor system for transport to a place of use.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a band filter press for separating liquid and solid matter comprising a continuous filter band adapted to receive a mixture of liquid and solid matter and convey it through successive loading, pressing and unloading zones. The filter band is in the form of a hose having a bottom center strip and two cover strips fixedly connected to the edges of the bottom strip and partially covering the same. The cover strips, which may be either integrally formed with the center strip or provided in the form of separate strips which are connected to the center strip at its lateral edges, enclose acute angles with the center strip. The lateral extremities of the connection points between the cover strips and the center strip define finite longitudinally-extending edges by means of which lateral movement of the filter band may be determined and controlled.

Abstract: A method of feeding material to a belt to preclude the belt from lifting off its support in vertical concave curves, both when the belt motor is driving the belt and when the belt motor is acting as a brake, is disclosed. When the belt motor is driving the belt, the material is initially fed at a reduced rate to deposit a reduced layer of material on the belt until the leading edge of the reduced layer has entered the most downstream vertical curve of the belt, at which time the rate of feed is increased. The feed rate is increased, in two or more increments, until a full load is carried by the belt. When the belt motor is acting as a brake, the feed rate is initially reduced partially, to deposit a reduced layer of material on the belt, which will remain in the most upstream vertical concave curve until the trailing edge of the full load has been discharged from the belt. Thereafter, the rate of deposit of material on the belt is diminished further, to a lower value or to zero.