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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. 06, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Bert Dirix, Linter, BE;
Joachim Van Der Perre, Houthalen, BE;
Raf Peeters, Maascik, BE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Visys NV, Hasselt, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 1/00 (2006.01); B65G 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This application describes a guide plate for collecting and discharging bulk products (), comprising a first segment (), said first segment () comprising damping means (), which, during use, dissipate the collision energy of each product () to be collected essentially individually. Further, this application describes a sorting machine for the sorting of a continuous single layer stream of products, in which said sorting machine contains a feeding unit, an analysis unit, a removal unit and transport unit, where said transport unit contains such a guide plate in order to collect the products coming from the feeding unit.