Method of filling a weighing container for plastics granulate
AssigneePlast-Control GmbH
InventorStefan Konermann
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Abstract
The method of filling a weighing container (10) for plastics granulate (12), wherein the granulate is dropped from a supply tube (26) into the weighing container (10) via a shutter (22), wherein the weighing container (10) is closed-off on the top side by a wall having a conical part (16) that reaches directly up the shutter (22), and in that the weighing container is filled with granulate up to the level of the shutter (22).
Claims6
A method of filling a stationary weighing container for plastics granulate, comprising the steps of:
- closing off the weighing container at a top side thereof by a wall having a conical part that reaches directly up to a shutter,
- dropping the granulate from a supply tube into the weighing container via the shutter,
- filling the weighing container with granulate up to the level of the shutter, and
- discharging the granulate from a lower open end of the weighing container.
A weighing system for carrying out a method of filling a stationary weighing container for plastics granulate, with the steps of closing off the weighing container at a top side thereof by a wall having a conical part that reaches directly up to a shutter, dropping the granulate from a supply tube into the weighing container via the shutter, filling the weighing container with granulate up to the level of the shutter and removing the granulate from a lower open end of the weighing container, the weighing system, comprising:
- a weighing container having an upper open end for receiving granulate, and a lower open end for discharging granulate therefrom,
- a supply tube opening out into the upper open end of the weighing container via a shutter, and
- a wall having a conical part which closes off a top side of the weighing container, with the conical part of the wall reaching directly up to the shutter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.