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US 5,699,730 AGranted
Bag squeezer
AssigneeChem Financial, Inc.
InventorsRay Ogier, Garry O'Donnell
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Abstract
A bag squeezing apparatus for breaking up bridging of material being delivered from the bag. A pair of jaws are sequentially operated to impact opposite sides of the bag.
Claims15
A bag squeezing apparatus for facilitating break-up of material in a bag for gravity delivery of the material from the bag comprising:
- a frame;
- a bag support mounted to said frame having at least two ears for supporting said bag over a center opening, said at least two ears spaced apart on opposite sides of said center opening;
- a pair of jaw members mounted to said frame, said jaw members pivotable about one of a respective pair of spaced parallel horizontal axes, said at least two ears of said bag support and said center opening being disposed between said pair of horizontal axes;
- and
- a motor attached to each jaw member to independently pivot working ends of the jaw members toward each other to impact said bag on opposite sides, said motor is attached to said jaw members in a manner to sequentially impact a working end of one of said pair of jaw members against one side of said bag at a position above said bag support and then to impact a working end of the other of said pair of jaw members against an opposite side of said bag at a position above said bag support.
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A bag squeezing apparatus for facilitating break-up of material in a bag for gravity delivery of the material from the bag comprising:
- a frame;
- a bag support;
- a pair of jaw members mounted on spaced parallel axes on opposite sides of the bag support, said pair of jaw members including a pair of parallel spaced lever arms joined by a plurality of spaced contact arms at an upper end of each lever arm to constitute the working end of each of said jaw members;
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- a motor attached to each jaw member to pivot working ends of the jaw members toward each other to impact said bag on opposite sides.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.