Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
221 words
An apparatus for the supply of loose products in amounts of determined weight to containers which are arranged at a constant distance from one another in relative seats of an endless and horizontally continuously moving conveyor, said amounts being dispensed by a plurality of scales fixedly mounted on the framework of the apparatus and supplied by a feeding station, wherein, according to the improvement, it comprises support members for two series of hoppers arranged below the said scales and each including a number of hoppers equal to that of the product amounts fed by the said scales, means for driving said support members and conveyor, said support members being arranged to move each series of hoppers below the scales successively from a rest condition to a motion condition, chute-like means cooperating with the said scales and having outlets orientable alternately on to the hoppers of either series to discharge the product amounts into the hoppers of the series being in the rest condition, funnel means arranged below the hoppers and continuously moved so as to have their outlets aligned on the openings of the containers carried by the conveyor, a means for controlling the outlets of the hoppers to discharge into said funnel means and then into containers the amounts of product from the hopper series moving together with the containers.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
221 words
An apparatus for the supply of loose products in amounts of determined weight to containers which are arranged at a constant distance from one another in relative seats of an endless and horizontally continuously moving conveyor, said amounts being dispensed by a plurality of scales fixedly mounted on the framework of the apparatus and supplied by a feeding station, wherein, according to the improvement, it comprises support members for two series of hoppers arranged below the said scales and each including a number of hoppers equal to that of the product amounts fed by the said scales, means for driving said support members and conveyor, said support members being arranged to move each series of hoppers below the scales successively from a rest condition to a motion condition, chute-like means cooperating with the said scales and having outlets orientable alternately on to the hoppers of either series to discharge the product amounts into the hoppers of the series being in the rest condition, funnel means arranged below the hoppers and continuously moved so as to have their outlets aligned on the openings of the containers carried by the conveyor, a means for controlling the outlets of the hoppers to discharge into said funnel means and then into containers the amounts of product from the hopper series moving together with the containers.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
156 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein it comprises a plurality of scales arranged along a circumference, two annular elements concentric to one another and to said circumference and each carrying a series of hoppers equal in number to and being angularly arranged as the said scales, the said annular elements being mounted for rotation below the scales and alternately controlled to move along a circumferential length corresponding to an angle of at least 360*, tubular chutes linked below the relative scales and oscillating along radial planes to the rotation axis of the annular elements, control means for the said tubular chutes to orientate the outlets onto the inlet openings of the hoppers of the resting series, a plurality of funnels equal in number to a series of hoppers and arranged below the said annular elements, the inlet opening of said funnels extending radially to receive the amounts of product from either series of hoppers.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
104 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the outlets of the hoppers of each series are controlled by doors articulated on radially extending pins provided with crank elements controlled by a circumferentially extending stationary cam which has an initial section moving between two positions in one of which such portion engages with the crank while the hoppers rotate continuously thus causing the same to slide along the cam profile and causing the relative doors to open, while in the other portion during acceleration and deceleration of the hoppers it does not engage wIth the crank thus leaving the doors in a closed condition.