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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7323644 | Apparatus for measuring weight of powdered and granular materials A weight measuring apparatus housing therein a load cell for measuring the weight of material stored in a material storage tank in which the tank has a material feeding opening. The tank includes a shoulder frame fixed to only the tank and a support arm penetrating ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312408 | Granular material weighing hoppers containing pinch values or flipping-type hoppers Each of a plurality of scale units 10 that constitute a combination weigher is provided with a cut gate 11 attached to a lower portion of a powdery- or granular-material hopper 12, a feeding hopper 13 for temporarily retaining a powdery o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7270051 | Apparatus and method for supplying food dough Apparatus for supplying food dough including a hopper to which a large block of food dough is supplied, a cutting apparatus located at a lower opening port of the hopper to cut the block into small blocks that have substantially the same volume, a dough feeder havin... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6806429 | Bulk flow measurement system A grain flow measuring system for a flow rate of grain moving along a generally vertical grain flow path. The weight of grain conveyed along the flow path is measured when the grain impinges baffle elements, thereby generating a force corresponding to the grain weig... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6696649 | Weight inspecting apparatus The total weight of a plurality of resin products is set as a reference value, and a first upper-limit threshold and a first lower-limit threshold are respectively stored in a control circuit 38 on the upper limit side and the lower limit side with respec... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6674022 | Apparatus and method for transferring and weighing powder materials using pipette transfer devices The present invention provides an apparatus for automatically transferring and weighing a powder material. The apparatus comprises a weigh station including a device for weighing the powder material in a container. A transfer device for collecting and dis... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6472615 | Bulk flow measurement system A grain flow measuring system for a flow rate of grain moving along a grain flow path. The grain flow measuring system includes a frame, a load cell, a flow conditioning portion, and a flow measuring portion. The frame is mounted with respect to the grain... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6399902 | Inline flux measurement system This invention is directed to controlling the amount of flux dispensed onto the surface of an IC component. The component is continually weighed and data is fed back to a controller that controls the dispensing of flux onto the IC component. When the prop... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6387330 | Method and apparatus for storing and dispensing reagents A method and device for storing and dispensing specified subsets from a collection of tens, hundreds or thousands of different reagents to specified locations within microtitre trays or microarray substrates or the like. The reagents of interest are store... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6359240 | Container capacity control system Container capacity control system, which is comprised of a first horizontal linear guide (3) where there is a clamp head (13), which can move horizontally and rotate on the horizontal plane and which holds a first clamp (1) and a second clamp (2) for the ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6340030 | Apparatus for metering a plurality of different liquid or pasty materials An apparatus for metering a plurality of different liquid or pasty masses to a receiving container including: first support for supporting containers for the masses in fixed positions; a fixedly disposed annular frame bearing a number of dispensing nozzles con... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6111206 | Apparatus and method for gravimetric blending with horizontal material feed A method and apparatus of supplying material from a storage hopper (12) to a weighing hopper (16) where the material is fed at a controllable rate by a sliding plate member (104) that acts as a shutter for the storage hopper (12), which includes an apertu... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6053218 | Semi-automated system for dispensing automotive paint A system for dispensing liquid paint components from their original containers into a paint receptacle according to a paint formula to form a liquid paint mixture. The dispensing system comprises a dispensing apparatus for dispensing the liquid paint comp... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5811737 | Source reduction analysis integration of chemical products A source reduction analysis process of integrating scales to minimize chemical product usage. Based on residuals identified by weight measurements, an economic decision is made to reinstate for consumption, recycling or disposal of the product residual.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5808242 | Electromagnetic flow rate measuring apparatus and method for compensating the measured flow rate An electromagnetic flow rate measuring apparatus measures and calculates a flow rate of granules based on a measurement of capacitance which changes according to the quantity of the granules flowing at a granule passage. The measuring apparatus includes a... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5670751 | Bulk material weighing container with pressure feedback In order to provide a method of gravimetric metering of bulk materials with a calibration facility thus achieving higher weighing accuracy there is proposed a method wherein the pressure in the weighing container is measured and the weighing signal is onl... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5523101 | Apparatus for applying material to a receiver Uniform distribution of materials over a predetermined area of a receiver is assured by a multipurpose applicator wherein a gauging or metering device contacts materials on a conveyor to ensure that the materials are uniformly spread along the conveyor so... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5479959 | Integrated storage and transfer system and method for spacecraft propulsion systems A system, a portable propellant loading tank and loading method for bipropellant spacecraft servicing to load propellant into a spacecraft. The spacecraft has a propellant storage tank with a propellant input and a vent output. The system comprises a port... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5439036 | Method and apparatus for the automatic checking and quality determination of tablets or pills A method and an apparatus is provided for the automatic testing of tablets or pills, discharging from a tablet machine (20). The tablets are delivered to containers (5, 6). Tablet batch samplings are removed from the tablet stream for performing a quality... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5409020 | Method of controlling tobacco flow on cigarette manufacturing machines A method of controlling tobacco flow on cigarette manufacturing machines, whereby a first stream of shredded tobacco, containing tobacco in excess of the required amount, is fed on a conveyor along a path extending through a shaving station where the exce... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5207285 | Method of and apparatus for controlling the flow rate of outstreaming liquid metal from an inductively heated ladle A method and an apparatus for accurately weighing by a ladle weighing unit (2) of a metal melt in a ladle (3), in which the melt can be heated and stirred by power supplied by an induction coil (4). The induction field of the coil (4) is also applied to a... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5148841 | Filling apparatus for filling receptacle with metered weights Filling apparatus for filling receptacles, the apparatus comprising a feed member connected to at least one filling spout via a flow control member connected to an output of a weight processing unit having an input connected to a weighing member in order ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5006995 | Automatic weighing plant for dyes in powder form A plant for the automatic weighing of dyes in powder form controlled by a computer for the preparation of mixtures for the dyeing industry comprising a plurality of hoppers containing the dyes, said hoppers being placed one beside the other, each being pr... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4789014 | Automated system for adding multiple fluids to a single container A device is described for accurately transferring multiple individual fluids from multiple source containers into a single receiving container. Fluid flows from the multiple source containers through individual fluid conduits to a chamber having a single ... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4648430 | Device and method for collecting a desired weight amount of a material A method and apparatus of collecting a desired end-point weight amount of material first conveys the material into the collection container until a predetermined weight amount is collected. The predetermined weight amount is less than the desired end-poin... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4549620 | Electronic control system for a weighing scale A weighing system is disclosed which operates in conjunction with a scale that has a trigger mechanism for terminating the flow of material into the scale's bucket. This system automatically periodically revises a tare signal stored in a latch circuit for... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4481985 | Apparatus and method for weighing fluent material The apparatus of the invention comprises a fluent material-receiving chamber, and a frame from which the chamber is pendently supported. A load cell suspends the chamber from the frame, and transmits milli-volt signals to an electronic control and display... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4339028 | Method and apparatus for checkweighing containers This invention relates to a method and apparatus for the automatic checkweighing of containers during the process of their manufacture, and particularly relates to the checkweighing of hot glass bottles during their transmit from a molding machine to a le... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4117647 | Flexible pouch, forming, filling and sealing machine A web of flat polyethelene stock is drawn from a supply roll by a web feed mechanism, to be fed thereby up over a tube former then down, in tubular configuration, about a material fill pipe and then to and through pouch forming and weighing stations. A fi... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4023021 | Method and apparatus for weighing batches of liquid and other pourable substances During the weighing operation, the change in weight indication is determined according to time value of elapsed time and this value is multiplied with the reduced shutoff time, the negative value thereof being added to the product of the square of the tim... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3934983 | Weighing cell apparatus for diameter control of a rotatable growing crystal Apparatus for the closed-loop controlled growth of crystalline material by the Czochralski technique includes means for establishing a melt of a given crystallisable material, means for pulling a crystal from said melt when established, said means for pul... | 01/27/1976 |
