Waste product feeder
AssigneeIshikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMinoru Narisoko, Mikio Kiyotomo
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Abstract
A waste product feeder in which when waste products are charged through a hopper into a trough are transported by a screw and then discharged, they are successively scraped by a scraper in a predetermined quantity or volume.
Claims21
A waste product feeder for waste products comprising a hopper into which waste products are charged, a horizontal trough connected to a lower end of said hopper into which the waste products are moved, a screw operable in said trough for transporting the waste products in a horizontal direction, said trough having a discharge port through which said waste products are discharged, the waste products being compressed and accumulated in the trough and discharge port above a discharge end of the screw as they are successively forced by the screw toward the discharge port, and a scraper rotatably disposed in the discharge port and located to pass above the upper half portion of the discharge end of the screw for cutting off a predetermined quantity of the waste products transported to the discharge end of the screw.
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