Bag opening system
AssigneeIsopure, Corp.
InventorsKevin C. Gillespie, Zachary Patrick Ford, Guillermo J. Cohen Freue
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Abstract
A system and apparatus for opening and emptying a bag of material includes a base having a pair of opposed sides and a central aperture through which material may flow. The system includes a pair of opposed doors rotatably mounted on a pair of door shafts, the edges of the pair of opposed doors forming an opening and a plurality of piercing blades pivotally mounted to the base on a pivot rod, the blades capable of pivoting to pierce said bag. The system further includes a cutting blade mounted transversely below the opening of the opposed doors, the cutting blade capable of linear motion across the opening.
Claims6
A system for opening and emptying a bag of material comprising:
- a base having opposed sides;
- a pair of opposed doors rotatably secured between the sides, each door having a bottom portion terminating in an edge, the edges of the pair of opposed doors forming an opening, and each door having a pair of slots therethough;
- a pair of piercing blades pivotally mounted to said base, each blade positioned to move through a one of said slots in said doors, and each blade capable of pivoting upwardly to pierce and secure said bag;
- a cutting blade mounted transversely below the opening of said opposed doors, said cutting blade capable of motion across the opening for cutting open said bag;
- a back wall depending from each of said doors, whereby said bag is positioned between said back walls and over said opening;
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- a rack and pinion cassette secured to one of the sides of said base, said cassette comprising:
- a door actuator rack gear and a door actuator pinion gear, said door actuator rack gear engaging a door shaft secured to each door;
- a piercing blade actuator rack gear and a piercing blade pinion gear, said piercing blade actuator rack gear pivoting said piercing blades;
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- a cutting blade gear rack to which said cutting blade is secured, said gear rack mounted below the opening of said opposed doors, and a cutting pinion gear for engaging said cutting blade gear rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.