Apparatus for depositing flowable material

{
  "publication_number": "US3870013A",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "A",
  "title": "Apparatus for depositing flowable material",
  "abstract": "Apparatus for depositing flowable material and particularly flowable granular material on traveling articles that are transported on a conveyor means with the apparatus including a conveyor for transporting the articles, a dispenser for depositing portions of the material on the articles and further portions beyond the boundaries of the article and a collector for intercepting and recovering these further portions with the collector being movable relative to both the dispenser and the conveyor for returning these further portions back to the dispenser.",
  "claims": [
    "1. Apparatus for depositing a flowable material on a travelling series of articles having spaced adjacent peripheries, comprising: conveyor means for transporting said articles through a depositing station; dispensing means above said conveyor means at said depositing station for depositing said material by gravity fall from the dispensing means onto the articles as said articles are transported through said station with some of said material falling beyond and between said peripheries of said articles; a receiving hopper means above and communicating with said dispensing means for supplying material from said hopper by gravity flow to said dispensing means; a recovery means beneath said station for recovering said portions of material falling beyond and between said peripheries of said articles and including a rotatable recovery collecting member extending beneath the depositing station and above said dispensing means, said recovery collecting member having a solid circulaR periphery and peripherally adjacent pockets therein facing inwardly toward both said receiving hopper and said depositing station; and means for rotating said recovery collecting member and thereby elevating said material collected in said pockets to a position above said dispensing hopper for returning said recovered material by gravity fall successively from said pockets into said receiving hopper. Apparatus for depositing a flowable material on a travelling series of articles having spaced adjacent peripheries, comprising: conveyor means for transporting said articles through a depositing station; dispensing means above said conveyor means at said depositing station for depositing said material by gravity fall from the dispensing means onto the articles as said articles are transported through said station with some of said material falling beyond and between said peripheries of said articles; a receiving hopper means above and communicating with said dispensing means for supplying material from said hopper by gravity flow to said dispensing means; a recovery means beneath said station for recovering said portions of material falling beyond and between said peripheries of said articles and including a rotatable recovery collecting member extending beneath the depositing station and above said dispensing means, said recovery collecting member having a solid circulaR periphery and peripherally adjacent pockets therein facing inwardly toward both said receiving hopper and said depositing station; and means for rotating said recovery collecting member and thereby elevating said material collected in said pockets to a position above said dispensing hopper for returning said recovered material by gravity fall successively from said pockets into said receiving hopper.",
    "2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said pockets are separated from each other by inwardly angled walls that are sloped toward said receiving hopper at the top of said recovery collecting member for said gravity fall into the recovery hopper."
  ],
  "cpc": [
    "A23G 3/2076"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "HOLLYMATIC CORP"
  ],
  "filing_date": "1973-06-04",
  "publication_date": "1975-03-11",
  "grant_date": "1975-03-11",
  "priority_date": "1973-06-04",
  "application_number": "US-36636973-A",
  "family_id": "23442728",
  "citations": [
    "US1432701A",
    "US2347164A",
    "US2940422A",
    "US3404659A",
    "US3502196A",
    "US3779205A"
  ]
}