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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:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alan F Giles, St. Neots, GB;
Assignee:
Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ; G01V / ; B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2502222 ; 209576 ; 364555 ; 7386141 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for metering flowable particulates wherein the particulates are fed at a uniform speed through an array of radiation beams, the interruptions of these beams are used to compute a value representing the total amount of particulates present in the array of beams and this value is totalized with time. This totalized value is used for monitoring the flow of particulates.