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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1988
Jonathan M Isherwood, Leamington Spa, GB;
Robert W Tansley, Stratford-Upon-Avon, GB;
Driver Southall Limited, , GB;
Abstract
A combinational weighing system including a plurality of weighing machines each comprising a weighing hopper (20) and an associated hopper module (22) arranged to provide a measurement of the weight of the contents of the associated hopper (20); a plurality of channels (14) via which articles are respectively fed from a common source (17) directly into each of the hoppers (20); a central control (76) for utilizing the weight measurements provided by the hopper modules (22) to select from the hoppers (20) a number of hoppers (20) whose contents have a total weight substantially equal to a target weight; and the selected number of hoppers (20) discharging into a collection chute (24) to feed a batch of articles of substantially the target weight to a collection point.