Apparatus for filling receptacles
AssigneeSahara Natural Foods, Inc.
InventorDimitri Cados
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Abstract
An apparatus for filling multiple receptacles with foodstuffs utilizing a tray having at least first and second apertures through the same. The first and second apertures each possess an entrance and an exit and a chamber within the tray body of a pre-determined volume. Each aperture is spaced from one another on the tray. A feed conduit is also utilized to transport foodstuffs from any one of multiple containers to the tray. The tray is reciprocated to permit alternate communication between the feed conduit and the entrances to the first and second apertures. A cover closes the exits of any one of the apertures at the same time the aperture chamber is being filled with a foodstuff. In addition, reciprocation of the tray removes the cover and permits the foodstuff to pass to a conduit which leads the foodstuff to a container.
Claims15
An apparatus for filling multiple receptacles with foodstuffs from multiple containers;
- comprising:
- a. a tray having at least a first and second aperture therethrough, each of said first and second apertures possessing an entrance and an exit, said first and second apertures each possessing a chamber of a predetermined volume and being spaced from one another on said tray, said tray further comprising third and fourth apertures therethrough, adjacent said first and second apertures, each of said third and fourth apertures possessing a chamber of a predetermined volume and spaced from one another on said tray;
- b. one feed conduit connected to one of said multiple containers, said one feed conduit terminating at said tray;
- c. another feed conduit connected to another of said multiple containers, said another feed conduit terminating at said tray;
- d. means for urging said tray into cyclical movement to permit communication between said one feed conduit and, alternately, to said entrances to said first and second apertures;
- said means for urging said tray into cyclical movement further permitting alternate communication between said another feed conduit and said entrances to said third and fourth apertures;
- e. one cover for alternately closing said exits of said first and second apertures, to permit filling with a foodstuff when said entrances of said first and second apertures, respectively, are in communication with said feed conduit, and for alternately opening said exits of said first and second apertures to permit release of the foodstuff therein when said first and second apertures, respectively, are not in communication with said feed conduit, another cover for alternately closing said exits of said third and fourth apertures to permit filling with a foodstuff when said entrances of said third and fourth apertures, respectively, are in communication with said feed conduit, and alternately for opening said exits of said third and fourth apertures to permit release of the foodstuff, therein, when said third and fourth apertures, respectively, are not in communication with said another feed conduit;
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- f. means for conducting the food released from the first, second, third, and fourth apertures to a container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.