Metering device
AssigneeSchenk Process Europe GmbH
InventorsFrank WUCHER, Bernd ALLENBERG
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Abstract
A metering device for discharging bulk material at a discharge opening, with a hopper for storing the bulk material, and a conveying device for conveying the bulk material from the hopper to the discharge opening, wherein the hopper has an outlet opening through which the bulk material can be conveyed out of the hopper by means of the conveying device, and a slide gate, the position of which determines an outlet cross-section of the outlet opening, wherein the metering device has a motor-operated actuator for adjusting the outlet cross-section, a control device for controlling the metering device and a motor-operated actuator for adjusting the slide gate, which is controlled via the control device as a function of a target feed rate.
Claims9
A metering device comprising:
- a hopper to store the bulk material, the hopper having an outlet opening through which the bulk material is adapted to be conveyed from the hopper via the conveying device;
- a slide gate, a position of the slide gate determining an outlet cross-section of the outlet opening of the hopper;
- a discharge opening to discharge bulk material from the metering device;
- a conveying device to convey the bulk material from the hopper to the discharge opening;
- a control device to control the metering device;
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- a motor-operated actuator to adjust the slide gate, which is controlled via the control device as a function of a target feed rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.