Continuous automatic weighing conveyor for flowable solids
OwnerPaul H. Hegeinventor
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Abstract
Flowable solids are continuously and accurately weighed during transport to a collection or discharge point. A counterweight pivoted conveyor carries a rotating disc at its discharge end, one face of which frictionally engages a relatively stationary comparatively small diameter wheel having a plane of rotation at right angles to the plane of the disc. The disc rises and falls with the pivotal conveyor in response to varying amounts of material on the conveyor, thereby changing the effective radius of the disc relative to the wheel. The wheel activates a counter once during each rotation thereof to register a unit of weight in the counter. The structure is useful in agriculture or industry.
Claims4
An automatic continuously weighing and registering conveyor comprising a supporting base, a conveyor frame tiltably mounted on the supporting base, an endless conveyor means on said frame including power drive and adjustable counterweighting means mounted near one end of said frame, a rotating disc directly driven by the endless conveyor means near the end of said frame which is remote from said power drive and counterweighting means, a coacting comparatively small diameter wheel on the supporting base and positioned at one side of the disc in a plane at right angles to the disc and being resiliently biased into frictional contact with the disc and driven in rotation by the disc in response to rotation of the latter, the rotational speed of said wheel varying with displacement of the disc due to tilting of the conveyor frame under load, and weight register means operatively engaged with said wheel.
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