Article apportioning apparatus having a rotatable drum

US4094439A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Hans List · Prien am Chiemsee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 1976
• Grant date: Jun 13, 1978
• Expiry date: May 10, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B5/103
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for handling a multiplicity of like bodies such as pills or tablets has a drum rotatable in a housing about a horizontal axis and formed with a multiplicity of throughgoing holes constituting body-receiving pockets. A pair of axially spaced end walls axially close the drum and a pair of inner and outer shields insure that except for an inner input location and an outer retrieval location bodies in the apertures of the drum will not fall out as the drum rotates. A pair of transparent end walls are rigidly mounted together by way of axially extending bolts and carry feed plates, a separating comb, and a separating disc. These end plates and the elements carried on them are slidable axially into and out of the drum. The separating comb is formed of a plurality of axially spaced and parallel elements that define slits that are aligned with the rows of apertures in the drum and between which fit elastomeric discs carried on the separating roller. One end of the comb can be hooked over an axially extending tierod or bolt and the other end can be releasably secured to the end plates also so that this comb can readily be removed from the apparatus and replaced with another com…