Weighing apparatus with compartmentalized weighing bucket
US4616722A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 28, 1985 |
| Grant date | Oct 14, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 28, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01G19/393
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A computerized scale in which each weighing bucket is formed by two side-by-side compartments and by a single door which shuttles back and forth between two positions beneath the compartments. Each time the door changes positions, it closes one compartment to permit product to be dropped into and weighed in such compartment and, at the same time, opens the other compartment to permit previously weighed product to fall therefrom. As a result, one compartment is filled as the other compartment is being emptied so as to significantly increase the cycle rate of the scale.
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