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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2011
Applicants:
Alfred Alexander Taylor, Lugarno, AU;
Darren Ken Alchin, Lane Cove North, AU;
Inventors:
Alfred Alexander Taylor, Lugarno, AU;
Darren Ken Alchin, Lane Cove North, AU;
Assignee:
TNA Australia Pty Limited, Lidcombe, New South Wales, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 11/00 (2006.01); G01G 19/393 (2006.01); B65G 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 19/393 (2013.01); B65G 11/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A weighing machine () that may be scales employed in the packaging industry to deliver batches of product to a packaging machine below the weighing machine (). The weighing machine () has a plurality of troughs () along which the product passes and that extend downwardly away from a generally central upright longitudinal axis (). Each trough () extends downwardly from an inlet portion () to an outlet portion (), with the outlet portion () spaced radially and angularly from the inlet portion () relative to the axis ().