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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1976
Filed:
Nov. 11, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Oliver K Hobbs, Suffolk, VA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53267 ; 222 70 ; 222415 ; 198 24 ; 200 / ; 200 47 ; 141166 ; 141312 ; 141316 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for bagging a comminuted material such as broken or shredded tree bark, shredded insulating materials, plastic pellets, granular fertilizer material, grain or the like has a hopper provided with a discharge chute and bag holder adapted to sense the presence of a bag associated therewith, means for discharging a measured volume of bark into the bag responsive to the bag holder, means for conveying the bag after it is charged with bark through means for sealing the bag, and conveyor means for carrying the sealed bag to storage or transporting means.