Gauge With Clearer Other Than Continuous Feeder Patents (Class 209/625)
  • Patent number: 11927553
    Abstract: An apparatus for bulk ore sorting using gamma activation analysis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor system that includes one or more conveyor belts, surrounded by one or more radiation shields, to transport ore material along a transport path. A pulsed X-ray radiation source is configured to irradiate ore material at an irradiation region and one or more detectors are configured to detect a gamma radiation output from irradiated ore material at a detection region. The transport path has a bend, located between the irradiation region and the detection region, and about a vertical axis, of at least 45 degrees. The one or more detectors are configured to detect a radiation output from the irradiated ore material at times between X-ray pulses of the pulsed X-ray radiation source irradiating the ore material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Peter Coghill, James Tickner, Chanel Tissot, Ian Carter, Nicholas Cutmore
  • Publication number: 20130099036
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for accelerating food product and decreasing pressure of the product in order to cause the product to be stretched aligning the fibers of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: James B. Wolff
  • Patent number: 7156236
    Abstract: A machine for removing articles such as debris and the like deposited on a tract of ground, comprising a wheel unit; a support frame mounted on said wheel unit, having means for advancing said machine along said tract of ground; a endless conveyor mounted on said support frame, having a plurality of tines projecting from an outer side thereof and a flight extending from a front end adjacent ground level, upwardly and inwardly to an elevated rear end; a receptacle mounted on said support frame, positioned to receive articles removed by said tines and carried upwardly and rearwardly on said conveyor and discharged into said receptacle, and having a set of tines cooperable with said conveyor tines to dislodge articles carried by said conveyor tines; and means mounted on said support frame for driving said conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Rockland, Inc.
    Inventor: William F. Geraghty
  • Patent number: 6892891
    Abstract: A manure management system that removes a large percentage of solids from a manure slurry when the slurry is run across a series of sloped screen separators. The sloped screen on the separator has very small openings. In addition, the separator has a water line with spray heads formed across the sloped screen. The spray heads direct water under pressure onto the sloped screen. Further, the separator controls the air flow through the sloped screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Inventor: Richard A. Dias
  • Patent number: 5032255
    Abstract: A particulate separating device (1) has an inlet (8) leading to sets of inter-leaved discs (2 and 3). The spacings between the discs determine the sizes of the particles which can pass through to an acceptance outlet (12) while larger particles are carried over to a rejection outlet (10). A comb-like barrier member (11) is interleaved with the set of discs (3) to assist in the removal of particles into the rejection outlet (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Inventor: Alan R. Jauncey
  • Patent number: 4921108
    Abstract: A feeder device is provided for inserting solid medicaments, such as caplets, into a holding fixture for subsequent processing, for example, dipping in a gelatinous material. The feeder device incorporates a novel selector for eliminating partial pieces of medicaments before these pieces can be disposed into the holding fixture. The disclosed simple mechanical selection apparatus can eliminate these pieces efficiently prior to costly additional processing steps. Also included with this invention are novel mechanisms for regulating the flow of medicaments from a hopper to a plunger assembly, whereby a single medicament at a time can be inserted into a corresponding holding fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: McNeilab, Inc.
    Inventor: Norbert I. Berta
  • Patent number: 4763794
    Abstract: An apparatus for sorting produce by size is disclosed. The produce travels over a series of openings (34), ranging from small to large. The produce falls through the openings and is collected beneath them. The openings are adjustable (91) to handle various types and sizes of produce. A plurality of fingers (52) is provided which move from below up into the openings to dislodge any produce jammed in the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1988
    Assignee: Billington Welding and Mfg.
    Inventors: Charles J. Billington, III, Richard K. Oyama, Kenneth H. Jepson, Thomas R. Skeen
  • Patent number: 4741427
    Abstract: A coin acceptor which receives coins in a slanted coin chute with a final size gauge system. The coin is first rebounded against a tapered wall and enters a first zone. All three coin sizes enter the first zone and then the lightest weight one passes down a tapered ramp which is spring loaded, but the lightest weight coins will not depress the ramp and therefore such coins are diverted into a second zone. The heavier different sized coins pass down and trip the tapered ramps, both a first and second one, and then the widest of the coins continues downwardly in the first zone to be processed and sized for diameter. The largest diameter coin is trapped between two pins where it is then tilted off of a ramp onto a diverter and passes into a third zone for processing. As all of the coins reach the bottom of their three separate zones, they enter into a final size gauge system which has three coin chutes sized precisely to reject any coin which is bent, burred, or oversized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Inventors: Nathan Choderker, Carl E. Dorman
  • Patent number: 4651881
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for rejecting too short and/or too low products, particularly so-called fish fingers. Products (7, 8, 9) are advanced on at least one conveyor (1) towards a final position or stop (11) at a reception unit (3). In the area of the free end portion (2) of the conveyor (1) there is a restraining member (6) displaceable in a vertical direction towards the product flow, the member (6) being adapted such that in a stepwise advancement of the products by the conveyor (1) it can arrest or clamp products (7) of the right length and height, whereas faulty products (8) are removed with the aid of a lowerable hatch (4). The conveyor (1), hatch (4) and the products on the conveyor are arranged for displacement a short distance opposite to the advancing direction at the rejection operation, the product or products in the final position on the reception unit (3) being no longer urged by the following products and are removed, e.g. for further conveying to a packaging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Sprinter System AB
    Inventor: Kay Wallin
  • Patent number: 4651880
    Abstract: A calibrating distributor of cylindrical members incorporating a cylindrical member supply station, a drum for transferring the members between the supply and a distribution station, the drum having equidistant cavities, each of which receive one of the members, a calibrating plate to transfer the cylindrical members having a diameter exceeding a maximum permitted diameter between the distribution station and an ejection station, the plate having equidistant calibrated holes, which are at least partly frustum-shaped, whose smallest diameter is equal to the maximum permitted diameter, a drive for the stepwise rotation of the transfer drum and the calibrating plate, and a pusher for forcing the cylindrical members contained in the cavities into and through calibrated holes whereby the members having a diameter exceeding the maximum permitted diameter remain jammed in the holes and are ejected at the ejection station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Marcel Mabboux, Claude Mercier
  • Patent number: 4610322
    Abstract: This invention then relates to a measuring apparatus wherein a plurality of measuring machines are provided transversely for continuous measuring on a lower side of a feeding hopper enclosing a long size such as dried noodle or the like in alignment, which is subjected to a combined measuring accurately by a predetermined weight as conveyed continuously crosswise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Ishida Koki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yukio Sugioka, Yoshiharu Mikami
  • Patent number: 4609094
    Abstract: A device for sorting cylindrical work pieces having an axial flat comprising a vibrating track for transporting the pieces and a gate mounted over and across the track. The gate has an inverted V-shaped cut-out on its lower edge. The height of the cut-out allows the pieces resting on their axial flat to go through the gate and to stop the ones resting on part of their periphery other than the flat. The invention is particularly useful for sorting video and audio styli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Rudolph H. Hedel, William A. Dischert
  • Patent number: 4402412
    Abstract: A device for insertion into the flow line of a high speed capsule classifying machine, having a capsule receptacle mounted on a movable gate, and a control circuit for detecting nonuniform capsules on the receptacle to position the gate and thereby move the receptacle in front of an air pressure jet to remove the nonuniform capsule from the receptacle, and then reposition the receptacle back into the capsule flow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Modern Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Rex C. Wood
  • Patent number: 4379509
    Abstract: Apparatus for sorting items according to size wherein the items are dropped between a pair of opposed sorting discs having facing sides with the spacing between the sides varying radially of the discs, with withdrawing elements being interposed at various radial locations between the facing sides of the discs for separately receiving the items in accordance with the size thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1983
    Inventor: Lorenz Bohle
  • Patent number: 4320842
    Abstract: A magnetic separator for removing ferrous or other magnetic contaminants from loose, non-magnetic materials comprising a bipartite assembly having two sections, which when joined, define a flow passage having an inlet for receiving material to be processed and an outlet for processed material. Magnetic elements in the form of prongs arranged in a plurality of assemblies, associated with each section, travel through the flow passage in an inter-digitated relationship and capture the magnetic substances in the material. The captured contaminants are released at discharge stations spaced from the outlet, where the prongs are demagnetized. Any material not released, is cleaned from the prong assemblies by brushes located at a cleaning station. The prongs are magnetized by a plurality of magnet assemblies that are transported by a conveyor in synchronism and juxtaposed relation with, the prong assemblies for a portion of their travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Magni-Power Company
    Inventor: Edward H. Rudd
  • Patent number: 4285434
    Abstract: Elongated components such as piston pins may be sequentially fed at an entrance point onto a conveyor connected to a distant discharge point. The conveyor includes a pair of guides so spaced to allow the pins to fit loosely therebetween and a stop plate which limits downward movement of the pins. An elongated drive plate having a top edge positioned between the guides and below the pins is rotated in an elliptical-like pattern so that the top edge lifts the pins from the stop plate, moves the pins forward and then re-engages the pins with the stop plate at a point forward of the point of initial lifting. The pins thus may be conveniently stepped between the entrance point and the discharge point as well as accumulated and stored if such is required. The conveyor may include sorting sections to separate the pins into different groups having equal diameters where pins of varying diameters have been inadvertently mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: AMSTED Industries Incorporated
    Inventor: Henry A. Schuricht
  • Patent number: 4273647
    Abstract: A separator system for separating grinding bodies and ground material in an agitator mill wherein stationary and moveable or oscillating separator members in a grinding chamber define a variable gap which narrows when a moveable separator member moves against the flow of ground material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Gebruder Neizsch Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Willy John
  • Patent number: 4204951
    Abstract: In order to sort a quantity of hard gelatin capsules of the type having at least a top and bottom and being filled with powdery contents, and to remove therefrom defective capsules which do not have a top or which may be cut or deformed in some way, the apparatus includes a first member with apertures for the capsules and a second member with similar apertures which are aligned with the first apertures in a first relative position of the two members. By applying suction to the top of the second member, intact capsules are urged into the second member while defective or deformed capsules are retained in the calibrated bore of the lower member. The two members undergo a relative displacement subsequent to which a discharge device moves rods into the individual orifice causing the discharge of intact capsules and defective capsules into different receiver chutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Theo Moser, Rolf Andra, Roland Rittler, Armin Strampfer
  • Patent number: 4172526
    Abstract: Defective and/or deformed capsules, for example, hard gelatin capsules, are identified and removed from a supply of such capsules by causing the ordered, sequential transport of capsules through a dimensionally calibrated passage in which a defective capsule is arrested while the preceding train of capsules is permitted to continue. The gap in the train of capsules is detected by a photoelectric sensor or the like, after which the machine member in which the calibrated passage is located is moved to the vicinity of a reject container, compressed air is admitted to the passage and the defective capsule is expelled into the reject container. The application of the compressed air and the movement of the machine member to the reject container may be under the control of the photoelectric sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Theo Moser