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US 2009/0151811 A1Published application
Systems and methods for facilitating loading of bags
OwnerDaniel Elvin Lockhart, JR.inventor
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Abstract
Systems, methods and media for faster filling of bags with material are disclosed. An accelerating mechanism accelerates material flowing through a chute from a material supply to a bag of a bag supplier.
Claims19
A material bagging accelerator positionable between a material supplier and a bag machine to enable the filling of bags with supplied material, comprising:
- a funneling chute to funnel material received from the material supplier passing through a first cross sectional area and to deliver the material through a second, smaller, cross sectional area to a bag of the bag machine;
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- an accelerating mechanism disposed at a side of the funneling chute so that an accelerating element of the accelerating mechanism forms an interior surface of the funneling chute and does not substantially block the passage of material, to accelerate material passing through the funneling chute, wherein the material enters the funneling chute at a large cross section with low velocity and exits the funneling chute at a smaller cross section with higher velocity.
A bagging system for bagging material, comprising:
- a material supplier to provide material;
- a funneling chute to receive material from the material supplier passing through a first cross sectional area at an upper portion of the chute and to deliver the material through a lower portion of the chute through a second cross sectional area to a bag;
- an accelerating mechanism to accelerate material passing through the funneling chute, the accelerating mechanism disposed on a side of the funneling chute so that elements of the accelerating mechanism form interior surfaces of the chute and do not substantially block the passage of material, wherein the material enters the funneling chute at a large first cross section with a first velocity and exits the funneling chute at a smaller second cross section with higher velocity;
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- a bag supplier to provide a bag to receive material from the funneling chute through the second cross sectional area.
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A method for conveying material from a material source to a bag, comprising:
- providing material to an input of a chute with a first cross section in an upper portion of the chute and a second cross section, smaller than the first cross section, in a lower portion of the chute;
- accelerating the material through the chute from the first cross section to the second smaller cross section by an accelerator disposed at a side of the chute to accelerate the material without blockage, the material being accelerated from the first cross section at a first velocity to the second smaller cross section at a second higher velocity;
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- receiving material from the second smaller cross section into a bag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.