Weighing system including a preload weighing table and clamping device for weighing sequentially fed items

US8178798B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Wipotec Wiege-und Positioniersysteme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Edrich · Homburg, DE
• Stefan Mildenberger · Kaiserslautern, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 13, 2009
• Grant date: May 15, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01G23/02
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Weighing system for weighing sequentially fed items to be weighed, in particular containers, with a weighing table, forming a preload, for receiving the weight of the item to be weighed, wherein the item to be weighed can be fed to the weighing table or removed from the weighing table along a path running across the weighing cell and wherein a clamping device, with which the item to be weighed, after it has been fed to the weighing table and impinges thereon with its weight, can be clamped detachably against a stop of the clamping device to enable being weighed in the clamped state, is provided above the weighing table as a preload.