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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141750 | Storage container for granular fuel, a device and a method for feeding the fuel forward A storage container for granular fuel, comprising a lower, essentially horizontal, limiting surface and at least one adjoining lateral limiting surface, a feeding out device with an axial extension that considerably exceeds its radial extension, the feeding out devi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7266936 | Agricultural bagger with shielded hopper agitation and method An agricultural bagger apparatus and method for compacting feed into a horizontally deployed bag including a moving hopper wall and+ mechanism for moving the wall at an input end of hopper. The wall moving mechanism and the moving wall of the hopper sweeps the feed ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266951 | Ice making and dispensing system An dispensing system suitable for lifting and dispensing ice through the refrigerator compartment door of a bottom-mount refrigerator or lifting and dispensing ice from an undercounter ice maker to a dispenser on the countertop. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7065975 | Ice dispenser for refrigerator with bottom mount freezer An ice dispensing system is provided for a refrigerator having a bottom freezer. The system includes an ice maker in the freezer compartment and an ice bucket in the refrigerator compartment. A shuttle carries ice from the ice maker to the bucket through a tube exte... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6959843 | Powdery mold coating agent supply device A powdery mold coating agent supply device includes a tank having at its lower portion a discharge port, the tank storing therein an amount of powdery mold coating agent, a supply, tube connected at its upper end portion to the discharge port and extending downwardl... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6889874 | Dosing device for bulk goods A dosing device for bulk goods comprises a mounting frame (2) in which a trough (4) with a dosing screw (28) is arranged, a drive motor (30) and at least one first vibrating paddle (48). The trough (4) comprises two opposing... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6823904 | Metering installation for powder pigments The invention relates to a metering installation for powder pigments, having an arrangement for supplying the powder pigments into a weighing container of a weighing arrangement. The weighing container may be emptied into a pneumatic conveying conduit which leads in... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6772917 | Liquid crystal applicator and liquid crystal application method, and apparatus for manufacturing liquid crystal panel A granular liquid crystal of uniform grain diameter is discharged from a liquid crystal application unit. A charged plate ionizes the discharged granular liquid crystal. A power source supplies a plus voltage to the charged plate via a switch which turns on or off a... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6558111 | System and method for unloading bulk powder from large bulk containers The present invention is directed to a system and a method to unload bulk powders from large bulk containers. The system and method are particularly useful for unloading bulk cohesive powders.... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6382470 | Apparatus for delivering powder in a food dispenser system The invention relates to an apparatus for delivering powder in a beverage dispenser comprising a hopper for containing a mass of beverage powder. The hopper includes at least one flexible body member and an actuating mechanism coupled with the flexible bo... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6340101 | Process and device for dispensing a powdery product In a process for dispensing a powdery product (P) from a container (1) with a dispensing nozzle (4) aimed downwards, a flexible section (3) of the container (1) is deformed at least near the dispensing nozzle (3). This is achieved preferably by a movement... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6186360 | Machine and method for unloading a bulk-material bag Disclosed is a machine for unloading a bulk-material bag of the type having a bottom portion, a side portion and a transition portion between the bottom and side portions. The machine includes an apparatus aiding discharge of the material from the bag. In... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5921369 | Limp liner for conveying apparatus A replaceable liner for installation in a material handling system where materials normally accumulate on an interior of a material handling apparatus, the liner characterized by being sufficiently large so that the liner is externally supported in a firs... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5788449 | Massager system for a bulk bag unloader A massager system for facilitating the rapid unloading of bulk material stored in a semi-rigid bag. The system includes a frame from which the bag is suspended. The bag has a discharge spout in the bottom end thereof that is secured to a complementary hop... | 08/04/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5699730 | Bag squeezer A bag squeezing apparatus for breaking up bridging of material being delivered from the bag. A pair of jaws are sequentially operated to impact opposite sides of the bag.... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5697523 | Container with a flexible internal member and multiple outlets for weighing bulk material A container or hopper with a flexible weigh container as an inner member, in which the weigh container is supported through at least one weigh cell on a frame. In order to weigh-in a material to be proportioned, a throttling device is provided at the bott... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5547113 | Automatic feed supply machine An automatic feed supply machine comprising a housing containing a feed container. The feed container has a flexible bottom wall and a pushing plate for moving feed to an outlet. The outlet is closed by a disk. A motor vibrates the flexible bottom and mov... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5531361 | Active bulkhead corner with enhanced commodity discharge An active bulkhead corner unit with a support surface that faces the cargo and inflatable bags located underneath the support surface. The inflatable bags occupy the space between the support surface, the floor of the container, and the adjacent walls of ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5353966 | Apparatus for discharging dosed quantities of a bulk material An apparatus for discharging dosed quantities of a bulk material from a bin having a discharge end, includes a material loosening unit adapted to extend below the discharge end, a foil unit covering the material loosening unit and extending so as to form ... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5348188 | Micro-dosing device for powdery and granulate substances The proposed micro-dosing device is suitable for finely dosing powdery and granulate substances in quantities lying in the gram, milligram or microgram range. The dosing element per se consists of a nipple (1) comparable to those found on baby bottles. Th... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5306876 | Batch weighing apparatus with bulk bag type bins A batch weighing apparatus includes a plurality of soft sided bulk bags containing a quantity of bulk dry material which are rack mounted thereon and which have generally U-shaped bracket assemblies mounted thereunder for agitating the material in the bul... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5271439 | System for unloading powdered or granular materials A system for unloading powdered or granular materials from a container made of flexible material, the system including a line supplying compressed gas to the interior of the container to fluidize the material in the container, and a delivery conduit which... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5257725 | Bulk bag support framework A supporting framework for a soft-sided bulk bag containing a quantity of bulk dry material, the bag having four loop-type straps positioned at the corners of its top, includes a bird cage-like framework with four hook members for securing the bag straps ... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5215228 | Volumetric dry material feeder A volumetric dry material feeder comprising a movable wall hopper. Nesting lower and end wall hopper components receive and clamp a flexible diaphragm sheet in position to overlie mutually opposing hopper walls and to receive and isolate the material ther... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5160016 | Feed hopper agitator A feed hopper assembly for feeding granular material to a feed screw in the bottom of the hopper, the assembly including a frame for supporting a flexible type feed hopper, one or more roller assemblies mounted on the frame in a position to engage the sid... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5141135 | Bracket assembly for agitating a bag containing bulk dry material A pivotally mounted U-shaped bracket assembly is disposed beneath the bottom of a bag containing a quantity of bulk dry material and surrounding a pourspout in the bottom of the bag. An air cylinder comprising an inflatable bladder positioned opposite the... | 08/25/1992 |
| 4961519 | Lime feeder A lime feeder includes a metering driving vessel divided into two chambers arranged below a water inlet so that, alternatively one and the other chamber is filled with water and tilts between two end positions. The tilting movement is conducted by a carri... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4863065 | Bulk bag discharge unit and method A bulk bag discharge unit having a discharge hopper with an inner liner support. The inner liner support is used to retain, in the hopper, the inner liner discharge spout and a portion of the bulk bag inner liner as the bulk bag is emptied. A plurality of... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4810156 | Bulk bag unloading station A bulk bag unloading station having a frame from which a bag containing powdery, granular or fibrous material and having a bottom spout, may be suspended; a base plate with an opening; and a mechanism above the base plate for intermittently shaking a bott... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4732301 | Ice dispenser An arrangement for preventing the development of a frozen bond between individual pieces of cubed or crushed ice collected in a storage bin. The arrangement includes an upstanding flexible wall lining a majority of the inwardly facing wall surface of a st... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4669634 | Apparatus and process for the metering of predetermined quantities of at least one product An apparatus and process for the metering of predetermined quantities of at least one product to be delivered to at least one mobile receiver by means of a distribution station which comprises means effecting the discharge of a product from a container, a... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4534596 | Freight vehicle with a convertible cargo space A freight vehicle has a cargo space convertible from that suitable for handling piece goods to that suitable for dry bulk granular material. A conventional cargo space for piece goods has openings in the roof and floor for filling and discharging bulk mat... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4423832 | Inflatable liner for particulate bulk cargo receptacles An inflatable liner for mounting within a hopper type receptacle or container which receives and discharges flowable bulk particulate material. The liner is comprised of one or more inflatable members such as inflatable fabric bags or tubular members loos... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4383766 | Bin with pneumatic agitator panel In a bin for receiving pulverulent and similar slow-moving materials a pneumatic agitator panel is mounted to the bounding wall inside the bin and at its upper edge is secured to the bounding wall by means of a clamp rail extending along the upper edge an... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4373645 | Resilient liner for particulate bulk cargo receptacles A resilient liner for mounting within a hopper type receptacle which receives and discharges flowable bulk particulate material. The liner is comprised of one or more resilient panels each having a fluid tight envelope with a top and bottom sheet held in ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4359172 | Method of stimulating flow of particulates This invention relates to a method for stimulating flow of particulates toward an outlet of a container or other enclosure. A flexible wear-resistant liner is provided to cover an interior surface of the container along with a plurality of inflatable memb... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4334786 | Process and mechanism for evolutive pulp flow regulation The present invention is concerned with regulation of evolutive pulp. It offers a regulation process and mechanism, said mechanism including an elastic shape-changing pneumatic valve, valve opening control means, and modulating means causing a variation o... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4332334 | Dustless bag breaker An automatic bag breaking system in which a bag of powdered material is opened and emptied within a protective enclosure. The enclosure is equipped with a bag holding assembly and at least one flapper to sequentially strike the bag after the bag is cut to... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4273266 | Method and apparatus for discharging material from bulk containers The apparatus comprises a bulk container having a discharge opening in its base, and vibratory tray feeder for conveying material from the discharge opening of the container to a second discharge opening. The tray feeder has an inlet connected to the disc... | 06/16/1981 |
