Hyer Industries, Inc.

Edward A Packard

Philip H Sanford

Robert L Andrews

A vibratory feeder for cohesive particulate solids such as powders and the like. A conveyor frame supports a flexible conveyor membrane and is excited by a vibrator. The vibrator produces standing waves defined by nodes in the sectional configuration of the membrane transverse to the direction of material flow, with the sections between the nodes effecting periodic, alternately inverting flexures to release adhering solids.

Vibratory 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 therefrom. A pair of thrust plates are each located between the diaphragm and a hopper wall and alternately displaced relative thereto at differing frequencies to produce a continually varying combination of thrust plate movements.

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Plymouth, MA, United States of America

Edward A Packard