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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1992
David S Wilde, Austin, TX (US);
Billie F Hightower, Austin, TX (US);
James A Accuntius, Georgetown, TX (US);
Carbon Implants, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A particle feeding device and method for fluidized bed coaters that has no moving parts. It preferably provides for constant flow of purge gas into the fluidized bed coater and has a feedback control means for monitoring and precisely controlling the flow of particles into the coater. The particle feeding device includes a supply of granular material in communication with a generally horizontal passageway and a delivery conduit for feeding granular material into a desired location, such as a fluidized bed coater. The amount of granular material remaining in the supply is periodically determined and pulses of gas are periodically discharged through said generally horizontal passageway so as to blow granular material into said delivery conduit in a manner so as to feed the precise amount of granular material for predetermined periods of time.