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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
May. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald McCann, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Richard Macartan Humphreys, Mount Merrion, IE;
Assignee:
TMO Enterprises Limited, County Dublin, IE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 5/366 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 5/366 ;
Abstract
A dispensing apparatus for dispensing a particulate material having an upstream source of particulate material, a delivery device disposed downstream of the upstream source of particulate material and communicable with the source for delivering the particulate material from the source to a discharge conduit, conveying device communicable with the discharge conduit for conveying the particulate material through the discharge conduit, the delivery device and the conveying device being cooperable to form an incremental batch of dischargeable particulate material downstream of the delivery device.