Dosing apparatus
AssigneeBig Dutchman International GmbH
InventorLars Halbritter
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a dosing apparatus for dosing a good, in particular a good to be dried such as a fermentation substrate or dung, comprising a conveyor for conveying a good to be dried in a conveying direction, wherein the good to be dried may be fed onto the conveyor by a feeding system and wherein the conveyor may deliver the good to be dried to a downstream unit such as a drying apparatus, and a control unit designed to control a conveying speed of the conveyor, wherein the conveyor is pivotally arranged about a vertical swivel axis, characterized in that the control unit is arranged and designed to control an oscillating movement, preferably a speed, in particular an angular speed, and/or a frequency of the oscillating movement, of the conveyor about the swivel axis.
Claims25
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A dosing apparatus for dosing a good, in particular a good to be dried such as a fermentation substrate or dung, comprising:
- a conveyor for conveying the good to be dried in a conveying direction, wherein the good to be dried may be fed onto the conveyor by a feeding system and wherein the conveyor may deliver the good to be dried to a downstream unit such as a drying apparatus, and
- a control unit designed to control a conveying speed of the conveyor, wherein the conveyor is pivotally arranged about a vertical swivel axis, and wherein the control unit is arranged and designed to control an angular speed or a frequency of an oscillating movement of the conveyor about the swivel axis.
A method for dosing a good, in particular, a good to be dried such as a fermentation substrate or dung, comprising:
- conveying a good to be dried, which has been fed onto a conveyor, in a conveying direction;
- controlling a conveying speed of the conveyor;
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- controlling an angular speed or an oscillating frequency of an oscillating movement of the conveyor about a vertical swivel axis of the conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.