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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Rovema Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH, Fernward, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 3/100 ; B67C 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 3/100 ; B67C 3/00 ;
Abstract
In order to further accelerate a pourable product (,) falling into a fill pipe (,) or in order to compress the particle cluster of the product (,), it is suggested to blow air in timed intervals into the fill pipe (,). An air flap (,) is operated for this purpose in a pipe (,) between a blower (,) and the fill pipe (,) by means of a drive,. A control device (,) controls the drive (,) dependent on a packaging parameter, for example, at a point in time when the product (,) is in a position of the free fall, which position is recognized by a sensor (,).