Measuring flask for use in a filling machine

In an apparatus for filling like containers, each having a bottom and an upwardly extending continuous sidewall connected to the bottom, with a like measured amount of divided matter including, an apparatus housing, a drive connected to the housing, a filling turret mounted in said housing, said filling turret having a rotatable portion connected to said drive, said rotatable portion being rotated by said drive about a substantially vertical axis, said filling turret including a filling tank, said filling tank having a rotatable floor connected to said drive, said rotatable floor rotating with said rotatable portion of the filling turret, a plurality of measuring flasks arranged in a circle having its center at said vertical axis, said measuring flasks connected to said rotatable floor of the filling tank;

• the improvement comprising;
• each of said measuring flasks including an open ended elongated measuring tube having one end connected to the rotatable floor for receiving divided matter from the filling tank and the other end of the tube extending downward, each tube having its length substantially parallel to said vertical axis, a sleeve telescopically mounted on each open ended measuring tube and being movable axially along the length of its respective tube, a container support mounted in said housing below the measuring flasks, said container support being in a substantially horizontal plane, said container support adapted for holding a plurality of containers on substantially the same level, means for aligning each of said containers with a respective a sleeve and moving the containers on the container support in a circular path, said circular path having its center at the vertical axis, control means positioning each sleeve relative to a respective container while the container moves in the circular path in a horizontal plane about said vertical axis, said control means including means holding each sleeve in a raised position above the respective container during movement of the container in a selected portion of said circular path, said control means including lowering means for lowering each sleeve into its respective container during movement of the container in another selected portion of said circular path, and said control means including means raising each sleeve out of the respective container during movement of the container in still another selected portion of said circular path.