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AssigneeAlbert Handtmann
InventorsJohann Muller, Georg Staudenrausch
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Apparatus for consecutively metering discrete amounts of a divisible mass, particularly sausage meat, including feeding means (7, 96) for said mass adapted to be operated in time with the metering operation and followed by a power-operated cutoff device, the control element (6) of which is adapted to be controlled by a measuring device (28, 29, 30) also effective to control the control element (9) of the feeding means (7, 96) in proportion to the mass flowing therethrough, wherein positive control and coordination of the movements of the cutoff device (1) and the feeding means (7, 96) and substantially full utilization of the installed driving power at any moment is accomplished by providing that the control elements (6, 9) for the cutoff device (1) and the feeding means (7, 96) are actuated by one and the same fluid and are interconnected in series and/or by providing that the control element (6) for the cutoff device (1) is continually supplied with the full fluid flow from a fluid pressure source (10).
Apparatus for consecutively metering discrete amounts of a divisible mass such as sausage meat comprising a hydraulic system, feeding means operated by pressurized fluid in said hydraulic system for feeding said mass, a power-operated cut-off device operated by pressurized fluid in said hydraulic system and operable, when open, to allow delivery of said mass by said feeding means and, when closed, to cut off delivery of said mass, means for metering the amount of mass fed by said feeding means and operable to cause said cut-off device to close, means controlling the flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid including a hydraulic cylinder and piston operable to utilize full hydraulic pressure in said system to operate said feeding means and said cut-off device, a twist-off device operable on the fed mass, said cylinder and piston being operable to actuate said twist-off device under full hydraulic pressure in said system upon closing of said cut-off device.
Apparatus as claimed in claim 32, including means for resetting the metering means for metering a subsequent portion of fed mass as soon as fed mass reaches the selected portion size.
Apparatus as claimed in 13, said opening sensor being connected to a pulse generator operable to control a digital counter which is effective to stop opening movement of the cut-off device as the actual opening width reaches a predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.