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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360377 | Refrigerator A refrigerator including a shaved ice dispensing unit positioned within a freezing compartment door and plural ice dispensing units positioned in an ice cube container to selectively dispense ice cubes, crushed ice and shaved ice. First and second ice dispensing uni... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7308734 | Cotton seed cleaner A cotton seed cleaner includes an initial airwash, a shaker deck with a series of cascading shaker trays, and a plurality of pin mill drums for more efficient and thorough cleaning of seeds to be used in industrial and commercial products. The result is a more effic... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7083069 | Bulk material discharge assembly with feeding apparatus Bulk material discharge assemblies comprise a bulk material hopper, a conduit for delivering an air stream to entrain with bulk material from the bulk material hopper, and a feeding apparatus for introducing additive to the conduit. The feeding apparatus comprises a... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6595390 | Method and apparatus for dispensing fluid doses A method and apparatus for dispensing fluids includes first and second fluid pumps coupled with a source of the fluid. Each of the pumps includes a flow switch for sensing output flow from the associated pump. When one of the pumps malfunctions, the assoc... | 07/22/2003 |
| 5837276 | Apparatus for the delivery of elongate solid drug compositions The invention features an implantable device for the automatic delivery of an active ingredient according to an adjustable delivery profile. The device includes a housing; a reservoir operatively connected to the housing and arranged to store an elongate ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5735386 | Tube and belt conveyor A belt conveyor comprises an elongate tube with an upper run of the belt passing through the tube from a hopper at a lower exposed feed portion of the belt. The feeding of the material from the hopper onto the belt and into the tube is enhanced by the add... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5381837 | Mixing apparatus for powder materials A new powder mixing apparatus can mix a plurality of materials in a limited area of installment of apparatus by providing a plurality of container devices on both sides of a movement device so that the movement device carrying a mixing vessel can move rec... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5331977 | Distributor for cigarette manufacturing machine A cigarette manufacturing machine having a distributor including a duct, along which shredded tobacco is fed, and a withdrawal roller for withdrawing tobacco from the duct. The duct has a plurality of agitating disks rotatably mounted therein, each being ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5176295 | Discharge apparatus for bins A discharge apparatus for use in bins or hoppers in which a pluraity of rolls are disposed in a lower portion of the bin, and are so arranged to inhibit gravitational flow of material between the spaces defined by adjacent rolls. The rolls include knobs, ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 4964545 | Multipath machine for metering, filling and packing a pasty product, especially a soup paste The multipath filling machine or unit for metering, filling and packing pastry products, especially soup pastes, in two or more product rows has a feed mechanism, which has a conveying device, and a following metering mechanism. The conveying device has a... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4911332 | Cream and sugar dispenser A sugar and cream dispenser for an automatic coffee machine which prevents coffee or sugar from being dispensed into cups where the customer does not desire cream or sugar. The cream and sugar chutes are provided with moveable doors which are closed excep... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4798164 | Apparatus for applying glaze as granules to tiles maintained at a high temperature An apparatus for applying glaze, in the form of granules, to hot tiles, having a dispenser including at least an inclined surface with a pouring edge for cascade or curtain coating of the glaze onto the hot tiles brought below it, preferably conveyed on r... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4708268 | Method and apparatus for the accurate volumetric feeding of materials There is provided a method and apparatus for the accurate volumetric feeding of materials which require agitation to induce flow, the apparatus includes a hopper for containing said materials including a lower horizontally disposed, cylindrically shaped t... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4653929 | Apparatus for adding a first granular material to a second granular material An apparatus for adding a first granular material which is disposed in a first container to a second granular material is provided and includes a conveyor conduit connected to a conveyor means, and a feed conduit communicating with the conveyor conduit fo... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4609131 | Seed dispensing device A seed dispensing apparatus includes an upper grain flute housing which mounts a grain flute type seed dispensing system, as well as a lower seed plate housing which mounts a seed plate type dispensing system. Both the flute type dispensing system and the... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4538978 | Rotary piston forming machine for chocolate A forming machine for chocolate and the like which comprises, located directly downstream of the hopper, a metering device having a contoured mixing and metering cavity which accommodates a rotatively driven rotor provided with disk-like spaced-apart coll... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4535915 | Delivery and metering device for granulated and powdered materials A main screw feeder having a main screw housing set at an incline from the base of a bin. The main screw housing has two outlets, the advanced outlet and the recycle outlet. The advance outlet communicates with a metering screw housing in which twin screw... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4332336 | Spreading apparatus for mixed density materials A spreading apparatus comprising a large hopper disposed above a series of integral mini-hoppers. Each mini-hopper includes positive metering discharge means for uniformly distributing granular materials containing ingredients of mixed densities such as b... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4324764 | Apparatus for continuous leaching of ores A process for the continuous leaching of ores and an apparatus for practising this continuous leaching process are disclosed. According to this process, a plurality of unit layers composed of a pulverized uranium ore or other ore are continuously laminate... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4230241 | Ladle for delivering a plurality of aliquots of molten metal Battery plates are assembled into stacks forming positive and negative rows of lugs and the stacks are placed within the cells in a battery case. Molding channels are automatically formed around the positive and negative rows of lugs and molten lead alloy... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4199280 | Equipment for installing insulation Equipment for blowing insulation or the like into buildings or other areas is provided with a supply bin or hopper having a primary conveyor, such as a plurality of parallel screw conveyors, occupying substantially the entire area of the bottom of the bin... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4129411 | Fluid distributor The invention comprises a fluid distributor which, in a preferred embodiment, comprises an array of parallel rollers rotatably mounted at their ends. All, or alternate, rollers have a number of peripheral grooves or slots which define, with adjacent rolle... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4085869 | Lever-operated feed dispenser An improved feed dispenser for conveying mixed feed from a discharge opening of a mixing hopper and for directing the flow of feed exiting the dispenser, said dispenser including a trough contoured to an auger; a slideably disposed outlet door between the... | 04/25/1978 |
