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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367076 | Dry powder spreader A carpet cleaning machine for uniformly spreading a dry carpet cleaning powder onto a surface and working the dry carpet cleaning powder into the surface. The cleaning machine includes base having a hopper integrally formed therein, distribution slots on the bottom ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7305933 | Seasoning apparatus, and product manufacturing system provided therewith The present invention provides a seasoning apparatus capable of evenly seasoning each individual article, without seasoning any too heavily or too lightly. Therein, a screw having a helical blade is installed in a tube. The helical blade provides partitions that are... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7278804 | Methods and systems for delivering lost circulation material into drilling pits Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method and system for delivering lost circulation material, particularly cottonseed hulls, into oil and gas drilling pits. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method of delivering lost circulation material from a bulk sourc... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275498 | Flowable solids dispensing apparatus and method of use An apparatus and method for depositing flowable solids onto articles located on a moving conveyor. A flowable solid is placed on a vibrating trough and dispensed to an article on the moving conveyor through a slot in the trough. A third planar surface placed beneath... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7185756 | Discharge device for worked material A discharge device for worked material is provided. The worked material produced by the press working is received on a chute arranged just below a lower die. The chute is driven to make a reciprocating motion within a substantially horizontal plane in response to a ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7118010 | Apparatus, systems and related methods for dispensing and /or evaluating dry powders Methods, systems, and computer program products flowably dispense meted amounts of dry powders using a flexing piezoelectric layer to transmit a vibratory signal to the dry powder to facilitate fluidic flow through a flow channel. The apparatus for dispensing dry po... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7028635 | Wild game feeder with collapsible reservoir A wild game feeding apparatus includes a support structure, a food distributor, and a collapsible reservoir. The reservoir is made collapsible in order to minimize the size of the apparatus for ease of storage and transport. Wild game feed, such as corn, wheat, or o... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6910443 | Automatic feeding device There is disclosed a device (1) for automatic feeding of animals, preferably pigs. The device comprises a dispensing unit (2) over a feed plate (4) below a hopper (13). In order to achieve a simple feeding device enabling precise regulati... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6827242 | Through-fill closure for a receptacle A through-flow closure for a receptacle of flowable material, the closure includes a body part having a charging aperture and a closure operating member for opening the closure device of a container. There is an annular gap between the edge of the aperture and the c... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6715640 | Powder fluidizing devices and portable powder-deposition apparatus for coating and spray forming The invention relates to a powder-fluidizing and feeding device for use with coating and spray forming nozzles and guns. The device includes novel provisions for controlling and feeding powder from a hopper to a vibrating bowl, for heating and vibrating powders in t... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6685060 | Material handling apparatus Material handling apparatus for gravity discharge of flowable particulate material through an outlet (2) of a container (3) (shown dashed) for such material which outlet (2) is normally obturated by a hollow cone valve member (4), the apparatus (1) compri... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6607098 | Allocating mechanism for a weighing apparatus An allocating mechanism of a weighing apparatus that temporarily stores objects and allocates the objects to a plurality of hoppers disposed below is provided to reduce the amount of objects that remain without being allocated. The allocating mechanism 21... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6311438 | Silo for the storage of powdery products having a vibrating bottom A silo (1), in particular a vertical one, designed to store products in powder form, and having a vibrating bottom (3), suitable for favoring flow, and for equipping a fixing damper body (2) of a silo (1) by means of a joining element (9) and a fixing dam... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6296152 | Material handling apparatus The material handling apparatus is in the form of apparatus for controlling the discharge of flowable material from a store thereof and comprises a hollow support member, a through-flow device slidable within the hollow support member, a closure operating... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6257456 | Powdering device A powder device comprises a powder container which is formed as an exchangeable container mounted on a container receptacle via a quick-connect means. The inside of the powder container has a dome which extends from the output flow opening into the inside... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6223953 | Powder feed system The present invention is directed to a vibratory powder feeding and metering apparatus that achieves the above-mentioned requirements. Generally, the apparatus of the present invention includes a housing defining a powder reservoir, a powder storage hoppe... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6209758 | Powder feed system The present invention is directed to a vibratory powder feeding and metering apparatus that achieves the above-mentioned requirements. Generally, the apparatus of the present invention includes a housing defining a powder reservoir, a powder storage hoppe... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6116471 | Particulate material dispensing apparatus and method Improved apparatus and method are provided for the dispensing of particulate material from the gravitationally bottom discharge mouth of a hopper. In a presently preferred form, the particulate material moves downwardly first through a conically sided zon... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6086471 | Cash register terminal A cash register terminal and process for operating a cash register terminal especially for self-service in gaming casinos, with bill-accepting and coin-deposition as well as coin-dispensing structure and with at least one coin box. To design the cash regi... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6032828 | Catalyst exchange device A dispenser to dispense a granular material to a plurality of discrete locations, such as a tube of a reactor vessel. The dispenser includes a hopper to contain the granular material and has a discharge port to permit egress of material from the hopper. A... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5960990 | Product discharge activator and method of use A flowable bulk product discharge activator and method of discharging flowable bulk products assures uniform, mass-flow discharge of loose, dry, flowable, bulk products from bulk storage containers that is void of any internal horizontal ledges to interru... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5785761 | Fine particles dispersing apparatus A fine particle dispersing apparatus including a cylindrical body, a funnel nozzle provided at the bottom of the cylindrical body, and a valve having a clearance forming member forming a clearance with the inner wall of the funnel nozzle which is larger t... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5735439 | Apparatus for the metered discharge of bulk material from a flexible supply container especially in a dosing system A dosing mechanism is equipped with a bulk material container such as a silo which has at least one movable or flexible wall portion that is moved to help in the discharge of the bulk material through a discharge device. The motion of the discharge device... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5713494 | Powder feeding device A powder feeding device for feeding powder at a constant rate has a container for storing a powdered material and a discharge device mounted in the container at a lower portion thereof for discharging the powdered material from the container at a constant... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5656325 | Powder coating apparatus and method A powder coating apparatus and method are provided for feeding fine powdered coating material such as thermoplastic type material to a succession of discrete articles passing by the apparatus. The invention also provides a powder feed system that deposits... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5635096 | Vibrating ring motor for feeding particulate substances An apparatus for mixing a particulate substance, which may be in chopped or short fibre form, with a matrix metal comprises a container (11) for molten metal (10) having an aperture (12) through which a stream of the metal can fall, a feed motor (20) for ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5464126 | Volumetric dosage machine particularly for granulates, powders and loose products in general Volumetric dosage machine particularly for granulates, powders and loose products in general, including products that are not uniform or mutually compacted and have a very limited flow ability, comprising a hopper for loading a product to be metered that ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5460209 | Automatic dispenser for dry ingredients An apparatus for dispensing dry ingredient has a plurality of containers, each for a different ingredient. Each has a body having an internal chamber, and a port for dispensing the ingredient, which is arranged gravitationally below the chamber when in us... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5413254 | Vibratory feeder A feeder housing is suspended from a material supply bin and has lower and upper cylindrical members with the upper member isolated from the lower member by a flexible collar which also seals the cavity formed by the members. The lower member is suspended... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5381967 | Hopper which is vibrated so as to dispense product A flexible hopper made of rubber or other suitable flexible material which is driven by a motor through an eccentric drive so as to cause the hopper and a drive auger to vibrate to more readily dispense product in the hopper. One or more flexible fingers ... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5337762 | Apparatus for storing and distributing comminuted tobacco An apparatus for temporarily storing and distributing comminuted tobacco to a plurality of consuming machines (particularly for distributing cut tobacco to cigarette rod making machines) has a circular tray which receives batches of comminuted tobacco at ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5333572 | Thermostatic animal feeder A rotary animal feeder that slowly, periodically discharges feed in response to temperature changes. Preferably the feeder is hung from a tree over an animal trail. A cylindrical pail stores a quantity of feed to be dispensed. Feed is drawn downwardly by ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5301844 | Dry solids materials feeder with vibrating mechanism and a method of vibrating various component parts of the feeder A volumetric dry solids materials feeder comprises a supply hopper, a feed trough disposed below the hopper, and an auger disposed in the feed trough to feed out the material. The trough is anchored to a vibration base, on which is mounted a vibratory mec... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5101532 | Powder dispensing and cleaning apparatus Method and apparatus for controlling dispensing of "dry" powdered compositions particularly carpet cleaning compositions wherein the confined finely divided particles descend in a stream under gravity and have oscillatory movement imparted thereto next be... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5014889 | Powder feeding apparatus A powder feeding apparatus comprising a holding hopper for holding a powder, a metering hopper for metering the powder from the holding hopper, a mechanism for opening and closing a discharge opening in the metering hopper, a controller for controlling th... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4907721 | Apparatus for removing residual stored material A bulk storage silo including a slanted floor opening into a discharge chute provided in the foundation of the silo wherein the floor is covered by a deck composed of a plurality of plates connected to vibrators arranged in a predetermined pattern which, ... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4809880 | Dispenser for fungible goods A parts dispenser apparatus for fungible parts such as seeds, powder, manufactured parts and the like. A feed hopper is positioned to feed parts to the area of a downwardly inclined trough which is pivoted at a fixed end and driven at the discharge end wi... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4790455 | Hot melt dispensing apparatus having offset hopper A hot melt dispensing apparatus for converting solid thermoplastic material to molten thermoplastic material and for dispensing the molten thermoplastic material comprises a solid thermoplastic material receiving hopper, a vibrated feed chute mounted bene... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4744714 | Bin vibrating discharge device for surge or blending bins or the like A vibrating discharge apparatus for discharging particulate stored material from a surge or blending bin or the like, having a discharge end, a discharge apron defining an support surface near the bottom of the bin extending in a substantially horizontal ... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4721231 | Chips bin blockage preventing A vessel is provided for holding and discharging loose bulk material, such as cellulosic chips. The vessel includes a cylinder main body with a conical discharge extending downwardly from the body. Chips are fed into the top and discharge from the bottom,... | 01/26/1988 |
