Abstract: Multiple measuring cavities of given and identical volume are formed in a base. Each measuring cavity is elevated from the base by a protrusion with tapered sides. Pulverulent or granular material is then poured into the cavities filling them to overflowing. The excess material flows down the protrusions and drains through holes in the base. The surfaces of the base present sharp edges to the flow of medium to eliminate its collection other than in each measuring cavity. Cartridges to be filled are inverted and the cartridge mouth is placed over each protrusion and its full measuring cavity. The cartridge mouths come to rest on the tapered sides of each protrusion. A cartridge retaining cover made to fit over and align with the base is placed over the cartridges. The cover holds the cartridges is contact with the sides of the protrusions, then, the cover and base are grasped and turned over as a unit, emptying the contents of the measuring cavities into the cartridges.

Abstract: A portable liquid container has a four-sided shell enclosed by a bottom wall and a top wall. The bottom wall is formed by four triangular portions sloping downwardly to a delivery opening. The top wall has an upwardly sloping configuration with an enlarged opening in the middle thereof. The opening is normally covered by a lid. Two lifting channels and a delivery pipe and valve are located on the underside of the bottom wall. Four legs attached to the bottom wall support the container at a height sufficient to clear the delivery pipe and lifting channels. Leg positioners are located at the upper corners of the container and are arranged to receive the legs of a second like container stacked on top of a first container.

Abstract: This invention relates to a dust suppressing device for use in the discharge of granular bulk materials, such as crushed rock, ore, and the like, for example, during the loading of such material onto a transport vehicle such as a ship. The device comprises(a) a central hopper;(b) a first outer tubular member, coaxially disposed and concentrically spaced outward with respect to the hopper; and(c) a second tubular member coaxially disposed and concentrically spaced outward with respect to the hopper and the first tubular member. The spacing between the central hopper and the first tubular member and the spacing between the first and second tubular members are such as to provide alternate path for the discharge of granular material when the flow rate of the granular material into the hopper exceeds the capacity of the hopper.

Abstract: A hopper for use in a dry ash removal system is structured with a front elevational profile which converges from top to bottom while the side elevational profile of same diverges from top to bottom to allow substantially uniform hopper cross-sectional area from top to bottom and thereby reduce incidence of ash bridging within the hopper.

Abstract: A bird food dispenser comprises two inter-fitting housing parts (1) which hold between the bottom of a bag (40) containing food, the parts (11) defining an inlet for receiving food from a hole in the bottom of the bag. Each part (11) has an arrowhead portion (31) which passes through the bottom of the bag and is then received by an opening (32) in the other part. Food may be dispensed from apertures (18) with adjacent perch members (20,21) or from trays (62, 74).

Abstract: A convenient, spill-resistant and highly versatile pouring system for containerized liquids is disclosed. A primary funnel includes a container seating well having a built-in container piercing element. The primary funnel is inverted and placed over a liquid container or vice versa to carry out the piercing operation, following which the primary funnel and pierced container are in an upright position so that the reduced diameter pouring spout of the primary funnel can enter an aperture of a receiver of the liquid. Easily attachable secondary and tertiary pouring spout extensions allow pouring from the primary funnel into receivers having restricted openings and into receivers at relatively inaccessible locations. A convenient closure plug adapted to fit all pouring spouts of the system is provided. The secondary pouring spout can also be conveniently coupled with a standard size outlet of a bulk liquid storage container.

Abstract: A hopper car in which the body has vertical end walls and side walls each comprising a sloping lower portion and a vertical upper portion. The two sloping lower portions converge downwardly and their horizontal lower edges define a discharge opening. One of these edges lies in a horizontal plane which is at a different level to the plane containing the other lower edge. The angle of slope of one lower portion is different to the angle of slope of the other lower portion. Additionally, the horizontal plane containing the line of convergence between the one lower portion and its associated upper portion lies in a different horizontal plane to the corresponding line of convergence of the other side wall. An arcuate door carrying a laterally protruding operating arm closes-off the discharge opening.

Abstract: A large bulk bag is provided with a flexible tubular spout at its lower end. A valved casing is detachably suspended from the lower end of the bag beneath and in alignment with the bag's spout. The bag spout, when opened, is designed to extend into the valved casing and, thus, permit the contents of the bag to be discharged in desired metered amounts.

Abstract: A drum-like container of fiberboard or similar material supplied in flat knocked-down form and adapted to be set up as a multi-sided receptacle of polygonal transverse cross-section. It is provided with a funnel-like dispensing bottom which is also supplied in knocked-down form and consists of two sections, namely, a peripheral support wall section and a material-directing section. The set-up support wall section within the receptacle will be of similar multi-sided arrangement to fit therein. The set-up material-directing section will be of funnel-like form and when resting on the support section within the receptacle will direct the receptacle.

Abstract: A resilient liner for mounting within a hopper type receptacle which receives and discharges flowable bulk particulate material. The liner is comprised of one or more resilient panels each having a fluid tight envelope with a top and bottom sheet held in substantially spaced parallel relationship by a series of internal transverse seams or walls or by a layer of open celled foam when the internal pressure of the envelope is at least slightly higher than the ambient pressure outside the envelope. The panels are sufficiently resilient, that particles or chunks of material passing through the hopper striking the top of the envelope cause undulation of the top of the envelope which aids in maintaining the constant flow of particulate material through the receptacle. The panels may be protected by a wear resistant cover loosely covering the panels or integral with the panels.

Abstract: A container body of fiberboard or the like of rectangular form with a funnel-like dispensing bottom composed of a plurality of segmental insert sections, each of which is wedge shaped in both horizontal and vertical cross-sections to tightly wedge in place and direct material from the four upstanding sides of the container body to a central dispensing opening. To obtain adequate crush-resisting strength in the funnel-like bottom, a plurality of insert sections are disposed side-by-side along each of the upstanding sides of the container body.

Abstract: This invention relates to a silo for passing or feeding various kinds of powders into something else. The silo comprises a storage portion positioned at the upper part thereof and two or more hoppers which diverge from a position in the silo height, wherein a vertical internal wall of the storage portion is integrally associated with a vertical internal wall of the hopper having the exhaust port. Accordingly, powders stored into the silo can fall perpendicularly along the vertical internal walls of the storage and of the hoppers, thereby being smoothly exhausted from the exhaust ports without causing any bridging phenomenon or air locking of the powders in the silo. In addition, the falling speed of the powders is accelerated.

Abstract: A drum-like container of fiberboard or similar material supplied in flat knocked-down form and adapted to be set up to serve as a shipping and dispensing container for bulk material. It is provided with a funnel-like dispensing bottom made up of fiberboard segmental wedge-shaped bottom insert sections which are supplied in flat knocked-down form and are adapted to be first set up and then positioned on the bottom of the container in a funnel-like arrangement with a central dispensing opening.

Abstract: A canister for storing a can of oil has an arrangement to mount it within the engine compartment or trunk of an automobile or to other motorized vehicles. An inverted funnel is secured to the upper end of the cannister, serving as a cover enclosure or upon detachment, as a funnel for adding oil to the engine. The funnel spout receives a cap or stopper which has a handle on its outer side and a can opener on its inner side normally enclosed within the funnel.

Abstract: A counter top beverage dispensing machine operable to selectively and intermittently combine and mix measured volumes of granular dehydrated beverage concentrate and water and to dispense the resulting beverage in a waiting receptacle; the machine is characterized by a receptacle supporting base with a removable drip tray, a column projecting up from the base in which water and concentrate components of the machine are housed and which has a removable panel to afford access to said components and a hopper section removably engaged with and supported atop the column; the hopper section includes a concentrate receiving hopper with driven concentrate dispensing means at its lower end which dispensing means is normally releasably engaged with drive means carried by the column and is related with mixing means carried by the column into which concentrate and water is introduced and from which beverage is dispensed into the waiting receptacle.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to a process and an apparatus for applying a layer of liquid, foamable reaction mixture to a continuously moving support, such as for the production of foam blocks or foam sandwich panels having a thick foam core.

Abstract: A reconstituted food dispenser for such foods as cereal, mashed potatoes and the like wherein a housing is provided having a platform on which is supported a container of the food in a reconstitutable form. The container has a discharge opening on which a metal block is mounted, and the metal block in turn has a passage which communicates with the discharge opening. A second passage is also provided in the block, which receives hot air from a tube in the housing. A funnel mounted on the housing immediately below the discharge end of the passage in the block receives hot water from a water heater in the housing and receives the reconstitutable food from the container, and the two are mixed and discharged from the funnel. The food may be in the form of flakes, granules, powder, etc.

Abstract: A dispensing package comprising a substantially rectangular, parallelepipedal container which is suitable for stacking, a bag-type liner, and an internal funnel having its outlet end disposed adjacent a sidewall of the container so that the contents of the container can be dispensed through its side as opposed to the flap formed, multiple layered top or bottom closure is disclosed. The funnel is provided with a sufficient degree of taper that substantially all of the flowable material contained within the bag liner can gravitate from the package when the package is oriented with the funnel pointing downardly and the portions of the bag liner and the carton sidewall which span the outlet end of the funnel are breached.

Abstract: A separator for immiscible, emulsionless-forming liquids of different specific gravity which comprises a preferably transparent vessel; a valve provided in the lower end of said vessel for movement between open and closed condition whereby through disposition in the former, the heavier liquid may be discharged into a receptacle upon which said separator is stably disposed by means of a support plate.

Abstract: A tundish comprising an outer metal casing, a permanent lining of refractory material adjacent the casing, a layer of essentially unbonded particulate refractory material adjacent the permanent lining and, adjacent the layer of particulate refractory material, an expendable lining made up of a set of slabs of refractory heat-insulating material.