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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Beate Boesch, Roggenhouse, FR;
Satish C Khanna, Bottmingen, CH;
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
141-1 ; 141 83 ; 141 11 ; 198757 ; 222361 ;
Abstract
A vibratory conveyor for forming flowable grain agglomerations from previously poorly flowable fine-grained powder and thereafter conveying said agglomerations to a metering chamber which comprises a mechanical vibration device to agglomerate the poorly flowable powder, transport means for conveying the agglomerated powder and metering means for collecting and measuring the conveyed powder; and a method directed thereto wherein the poorly flowable powder is subjected to a mechanical vibration step prior to transport and metering.