Bulk fed product ordering device, particularly for confectionery
AssigneeAzionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A device for ordering bulk fed confectionery products, wherein a continuously rotating annular accelerating and transfer element is interposed between the outer periphery of a discontinuously rotating central plate, designed to receive the products in bulk, and an annular conveyor having a number of pockets, each for receiving a respective product.
Claims7
A device for ordering bulk fed products, particularly confectionery, the device comprising conveyor means extending on a predetermined plane with a succession of equally spaced pockets, each of said pockets designed to receive a respective product;
- and centrifugal handling means for feeding the products into said pockets;
- the centrifugal means being substantially tangent to the conveyor means, and comprising a central plate mounted at a level below said predetermined plane for rotation about an axis and designed to receive said products in bulk, and an annular product conveying element extending on said predetermined plane about an outer periphery of said central plate;
- first activating means for imparting a reciprocating helical movement to said central plate about said axis;
- and second activating means for rotating said annular product conveying element continuously about said axis at a first given speed;
- the conveyor means having an inner periphery substantially in contact with an external periphery of said annular product conveying element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.