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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. 25, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
James P Morris, Severn Stoke, GB;
Assignee:
Eley Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F42B / ; F42B / ; B65B / ; B67C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
86 31 ; 86 29 ; 86 32 ; 86 33 ; 141129 ; 141237 ; 222161 ;
Abstract
A powder dosing apparatus, especially for use in the priming of ammunition, comprises a tray containing a uniformly thick layer of powder and a dosing assembly arranged to extract a plurality of doses of powder from the tray. After extraction of the doses the assembly is moved to an adjacent station where it ejects the doses into respective receptacles, such as capshells. During ejection, the powder in the tray is replenished from a chute and the layer is raked and levelled by an assembly comprising a rake and doctor blades in readiness for a subsequent dose extraction step.