Device for emptying a barrel having a highly-viscous content
OwnerFriedhelm Schneiderinventor
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Abstract
A device for emptying a barrel having a highly viscous content by pushing a piston into the barrel. In order to prevent the barrel from being deformed or damaged, the device includes a turntable onto which the barrel can be mounted. The barrel can be reinforced on its outer periphery by means of a flexible looping element wound therearound, which looping element is unwound from or wound onto a drum.
Claims9
A device for emptying a barrel having a highly viscous content, and including a piston supported for movement into and out of the barrel, said device comprising a turntable and first support means for supporting said turntable for rotation, said turntable including a fastening means for facilitating a releasable fastening of the barrel to said turntable for rotation therewith, a drum and second support means for supporting said drum for rotation, a flexible looping element wound onto said drum and being adapted to be unwound therefrom, one end of said flexible looping element being fastened to said turntable and said flexible looping element being adapted to loop around the barrel, and drive means for rotatably driving said turntable so that as said turntable is rotated, said looping element is unwound from said drum as it is simultaneously wound onto the barrel.
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