Abstract: A grinder for preparing brewing materials has a main casing, a grinding assembly and an unloading assembly to measure the amount of the brewing powder to unload. The unloading assembly has an unloading motor and a measuring barrel. When the user puts the brewing materials into the main casing, the grinding assembly grinds the brewing materials into the brewing powder. The brewing powder drops into the unloading assembly. When the unloading motor actuates the measuring barrel rotates, the brewing powder is deposited in a partafilter. Therefore, a user can grind tea leaves, Chinese herbal medicine, the petals and so on to have fresh brewing powder. Brewing liquids with the fresh brewing powder keeps the nutrient content and flavor. In addition, the bags for packaging the brewing powder is no longer needed to reduce environmental pollution and packaging cost.

Abstract: Apparatus for stacking sticks of split-firewood has a drum with interior flights as well as a ramp and chute which do not rotate with the drum. The flights partition the inside wall of the drum into a procession of shelves and pockets. Each shelf extends radially between the drum sidewall and an inner edge. The ramp is mounted inside the drum and has an axially extending upper edge disposed to be spaced by a small gap from the shelf edges at about 9 o'clock relative clockwise rotation of the drum. The chute is also mounted partly inside the drum slopes from a top to a discharge end. The chute is mounted relative to the ramp to form a catch zone for sticks sliding off the ramp inside the drum. The chute furthermore extends outside the drum to discharge sticks of split firewood in neat stacks there.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing hand sanitizer powder includes a base, a container supported on the base and including the hand sanitizer powder therein, and a tray coupled to the base beneath the container. The tray includes an opening. The dispenser also includes a body at least partially positioned within the tray and rotatable about an axis. The body includes at least one compartment exposed to an outer periphery of the body. The body is rotatable between a first position, in which the compartment is in facing relationship with the container to receive the hand sanitizer powder therefrom, and a second position, in which the compartment is aligned the opening in the tray for dispensing the hand sanitizer powder through the opening.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for dispensing a measured amount of paste is provided herein, including a flexible container for paste, comprising a closed end, a peripheral wall, and an open outlet; a top cap comprising a top surface and a bottom surface, the top cap hingedly attached to the open outlet, the bottom surface of the top cap disposed to cover the open outlet in a closed position and uncover the open outlet in an open position; and a scooper attached to the bottom surface of the top cap in a substantially perpendicular orientation, the scooper configured to dip into the container in the closed position and scoop out a measured amount of paste from the container in an open position.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for dispensing a measured amount of paste is provided herein, including a flexible container for paste, comprising a closed end, a peripheral wall, and an open outlet; a top cap comprising a top surface and a bottom surface, the top cap hingedly attached to the open outlet, the bottom surface of the top cap disposed to cover the open outlet in a closed position and uncover the open outlet in an open position; and a scooper attached to the bottom surface of the top cap in a substantially perpendicular orientation, the scooper configured to dip into the container in the closed position and scoop out a measured amount of paste from the container in an open position.

Abstract: A feed unit for a container closure device, with a feed device for container closures and a transfer device which transfers the closures from the feed device to a workstation at which containers are closed. The feed device has a rail that terminates at a stationary check shoulder which protrudes into the feed path of the closures along the feed device rail to position each closure to be picked up by the transfer device moving on a path.

Abstract: An automatic portioning and weighing arrangement for loose products (15) comprises at least one store drum (2) whereby the store drum (2) comprises at least one portioning capacity (6) wherein separate portions of the products (15) are formed. The weighing arrangement (4) comprises at least one collecting capacity (40) for the loose products. The store drum (2) has been arranged almost horizontally and the portioning capacity (6) extends over almost the complete length of the store drum (2). As a consequence, the chance for choking ups is almost nonexistant on delivery of the loose products (15).

Abstract: A pump spray dispenser with an inner cylindrical tube (2) in the container portion (1) and a piston mounted on the handle (6) is provided with inwardly directed projections (14) about the mouth of the cylindrical tube. During the assembly process, the container parts with tubular cylinders are slipped onto upright mandrels fixed to a conveyor belt or the like. Each mandrel bends the projections towards the interior end of the cylindrical tube and when the container portion is removed from the mandrel, the projections begin recovery towards their original shapes sufficiently slowly to enable the piston to be inserted past the projections without damaging the piston. The projections then return to a still bent position in contact with the piston stem (4) to center and retain the piston assembly.

Abstract: There is provided a sealed barrier container for containing a supply of product in bulk form and providing limited access thereto for a user to meteringly dispense a portion thereof into a product receptacle, formed by an enclosed container including a product hopper for containing a supply of product, the hopper having an access panel movable between an access position and a closed position, a dispensing portion positioned in operative relation with respect to the hopper, the dispensing portion including a product ramp contained therein and in open communication with the hopper at one end, and in open communication with an exit chute at the opposed end, metering dispensing means positioned in operative relationship with respect to the product ramp and being rotatably mounted thereby to dispense metered amounts of bulk product from the hopper to the ramp, scoop means in operative relationship with respect to the ramp being reciprocable with respect to the exit chute, the scoop means including external control

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for handling a slurry contained in a tank having a slurry inlet and a slurry outlet. The tank has an open top, and a framework on which a plurality of buckets are mounted is located in the tank for rotation about a central axis through a shaft mounted on the upper margins of the tank. The buckets move along a circular path and into the tank to scoop settled particles on the bottom of the tank and then to lift the particles out of the slurry. In one form of the apparatus, the particles are dropped back into the slurry in the tank to thereby eliminate the growth of settled particles on the bottom of the tank to achieve uniform particle concentrations in the slurry. In another embodiment, the apparatus operates as a thickener in which the particles are unloaded from the buckets exteriorly of one side of the tank and carried away by a launder while the liquid in the tank overflows the tank at the opposite side thereof.

Abstract: A row seed planter for planting seeds in a prepared furrow in home gardens having a ground-engaging wheel-like seed reservoir and dispenser rotatable subassembly rotatably journaled on the lower end of an elongated handle member adapted to be hand-grasped near an upper end thereof and extend upwardly and rearwardly from the rotatable subassembly. The rotatable subassembly includes a rigid flat annular ground-engaging disc member having a large diameter center hole therethrough, a seed housing shell structure defining a seed chamber of predetermined capacity communicating with the center hole, a seed elevating disc fixed to the opposite side of the ground-engaging disc member from the seed chamber forming an opposite side closure wall for the center hole, and a single apertured seed discharge disc plate mounted closely adjacent the seed elevating disc and restrained against rotation relative to the handle member.

Abstract: For automatically feeding aquatic animals in an aquarium tank, a cup attached to a rotating arm scoops granular food from a storage bin and releases the food to a discharge chute. The food falls under gravity onto the water surface in the tank. The capacity and rotational rate of the cup are variable.

Abstract: The ice making and vending machine of the present invention will be seen to minimize to the extreme any ice bridging or fusing within the ice storage bin by virtue of the unique design and relationship of the bin rotor to the configuration of the bin. Additionally, the ice making and vending machine of the present invention will be seen to be extremely positive in operation in assuring that ice cubes are not delivered to the dispensing cavity of the machine housing except during such time as the vend switch is actuated, with the brake arrangement associated with the drive motor functioning to positively position the rotor at the termination of each vend cycle. It will be noted that the brake mechanism will function in two directions so as to not only prevent forward rotation of the rotor at the termination of a vend cycle but will also prevent rearward rotation as might occur when the rotor is subjected to certain loading conditions due to the quantity and orientation of the cubes within the bin.

Abstract: Successive charges of grain cereals and a pressurized gaseous fluid are directed into the inlet of a pressurized puffing chamber by a charging valve having a rotor with passageways extending therethrough. The charges are quickly and forcibly fed into the passageways by centrifugal force produced by a rotatable disk having peripheral pockets which receive the grain from a supply source.