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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4218920 | Nuclear fuel particle bulk density determination Systems for, within a sealed environment, determining the bulk density of radioactive nuclear fuel particles flowing in a process stream. A carrier having a known weight and a channel of known volume is selectively shuttled between the flowing particles a... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4213509 | Hydrostatic setting apparatus for support of loads A scale mechanism in which a load to be measured sets on blocks of which at least two are tapered and with a fluid such as oil between the blocks and means for measuring the transverse force on at least one of the tapered blocks and such measurement conve... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4170251 | Method and apparatus for determining the weight and moisture content of materials The present invention relates to a novel and improved apparatus for controlling or obtaining the actual weight of materials which are charged to a receptacle or other receiving means such as a shipping container. The present invention also resides in a no... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4164260 | Method and apparatus for controlling the average weights of commodities in package form A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the minimum and average weights of a product prior to packaging so as to assure that no charges are below a given minimum weight and to assure that the average weight of the charges is maintained at a pr... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4144943 | Scale, in particular for weighing bulk goods A scale with a digital computing device and a digital display, in particular for weighing bulk goods, in which the weighing result is determined as a mean value over a measuring cycle, comprising means for assessing the difference between the results of t... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4139069 | Digital weighing method A checkweigher uses a strain gauge load cell to provide a digital count which in turn is utilized to provide for automatic rezeroing and simplified referencing. The "grey zone" is taken into account for 100% rejection. Give away weight and standard deviat... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4139892 | Electronic postage scale An improved scale, and particularly an electronic postage scale, wherein a parcel is weighed and postage is computed automatically in accordance with the weight of the parcel and the particular class of shipment and destination zone therefor. It is one fe... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4137976 | Method and apparatus for bale weight control The total weight of fibrous material delivered to a packaging device, such as staple textile fiber delivered to a baling press, is controlled so as to facilitate achieving more uniform package weight in accordance with a method and through the use of an a... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4136749 | Device for cutting and measuring portions or lumps of caoutchouc to be fed to a mixer for rubber A machine for cutting up lumps of crude rubber (synthetic or natural) and weighing out an accurate quantity to be fed to a mixer in accordance with a selected formula, comprising two band saws having special blades with teeth having no "set" and lying ent... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4136504 | Slicing method An improved method for automatically producing a selected weight draft of sliced product from a workpiece in substantially uniform weight slices and in an integral number of slices.... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4129190 | Weighing apparatus including display control means Weighing apparatus is disclosed including an operating device for displacing a weighing beam arresting assembly to its arresting position, and for simultaneously effecting illumination of all of the segments of a multi-segment display device. In one embod... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4122940 | Apparatus for the weighing of mass produced articles An apparatus for the weighing of mass produced articles, especially highly-tempered glass products shortly after their formation, which are transferred with the interposing of a balancing device, by means of a weighing conveyor belt from a delivery convey... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4111272 | Weigh feeding apparatus Disclosed herein is an automatically controlled weigh feeding apparatus including a container for prefilling with a substance, a device for discharging the substance from the container at a controllable rate, apparatus for weighing the substance being dis... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4100984 | Net weigher with built-in checkweigher Apparatus for controlling the weight of product charges fed to a receptacle, such as a weigh bucket associated, for example, with a packaging machine, in order to minimize product giveaway, is disclosed, wherein there is but a single receptacle to which t... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4096950 | Sorting systems and sensing devices for use therewith The invention discloses a weight sorting system wherein a single weighing station controls a plurality of weight-range article removal stations. These removal stations are disposed downstream of the weighing station and sorting information is synchronousl... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4092721 | Apparatus for controlling and adjusting the weight of doses of a loose product in a rotating metering head Apparatus for controlling and adjusting the weight of doses of a loose product in a rotating metering head having telescoping volumetric members distributed therearound. The apparatus includes a rotating control head having a set of sample telescoping vol... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4080657 | Weight measuring system with automatic gain correction In electronic measuring systems the accuracy of measurement is affected by drift not only of the zero but of the gain due to temperature changes, aging and supply conditions. The invention provides an automatic gain correction means so as to maintain an a... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4065911 | Baconweigher A combination bacon slicing, segregating and weighing machine is provided. The slicing machine has a slicing blade and controls for determining the rate of feed of the bacon belly towards the slicing blade and, consequently, the slice thickness. Receiving... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4061198 | Electronic weighing systems A weighing system is described in which a weighing platform is operatively coupled to a transducer arrangement included in an electrical bridge circuit having connected therein a tare resistor arrangement for balancing out the tare weight of the platform.... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4060109 | Filling quantity regulating system in container filling apparatus In a container filling apparatus having a plurality of revolving charging cylinders and respective pistons by which a fluid material supplied into the cylinders with their pistons at the limit end of their intake strokes is subsequently pushed out of the ... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4051913 | Electronic postage scale A method of and apparatus for determining and displaying the postal rate for a parcel to be shipped to a destination zone by a selected class of shipment in accordance with the weight of the parcel. A memory is provided with plural sections, each section ... | 10/04/1977 |
| 3995517 | Method and apparatus for obtaining desired batch weight in a solid slicing control system A system for obtaining N slices of substantially uniform thickness from a solid to provide a batch having a desired weight, where N is an integer which may have a value between predefined limits. A partial batch weight is taken in response to weighing a n... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3993148 | Method and device for supplying a worm machine with material-partial pieces dosed by weight A method of and device for feeding into the charging funnel of a worm machine strip-shaped or irregularly formed partial pieces of material, especially rubber, dosed by weight as components of a mixture, according to which the pieces are weighed individua... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3978987 | Cutting of a stream of tobacco into measured weight portions Method and apparatus for dispensing particulate material in portions of predetermined weight by providing a flow of material measurable by a radiation detector, measuring the flow rate per unit time of the material and removing successive determined porti... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3974888 | Method of weighing and apparatus therefor A method of weighing and an apparatus therefor, wherein articles varying in unit weight are continuously weighed by a single weighing machine to classify them into three ranks, one for articles having error weights outside the allowable error limits, anot... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3967578 | Moisture gauge for a hanging potted plant A moisture gauge for a hanging potted plant, which comprises a generally U-shaped spring element comprising a spring coil and a pair of approximately parallel arms extending from said spring coil shaped to provide notches opposite one-another at spaced in... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3960225 | Conveyor belt system with positional transformation of weight data A scale position compensation means for a conveyor belt material transport system, the system including a conveyor belt having a tail end and a discharge end, belt drive means, and a weight signal generating means. Belt travel signal generating means prod... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3950698 | Arrangement for determining the moisture content of tobacco and the like The arrangement determines the moisture content of tobacco, in either leaf- or comminuted form, tobacco substitutes, other smokers' products, filter materials, cigarette and cigar papers and wrappings, related and analogous fibrous and other materials, an... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3944078 | Counter controlled product conveyor distribution system Poultry carriers release birds at a plurality of work stations to which they are conveyed, under control of weight sensing devices and resettable counters. The birds reaching each group of work stations are limited to a common weight range by weight sorti... | 03/16/1976 |
