Abstract:
A vibratory conveying apparatus for conveying material. The apparatus includes a bed on which material is conveyed, a counterbalance supported on a plurality of isolation springs, a plurality of inclined drive springs extending between the bed and the counterbalance, and a plurality of stabilizers for controlling movement of the drive springs along their central axes. A first pair of vibratory motors, each having rotatable eccentric weights, and a second pair of vibratory motors, each having rotatable eccentric weights, are attached to the counterbalance. The eccentric weights rotate in phase with one another to vibrate the bed at a vibration frequency.
Abstract:
A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more off center located, vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more internally applied baffles, either of inverted cone type or one or more rows or levels of internally applied centerless, radial, sidewall mounted type, in spaced relation, above the bin low profile bottom section, and in a second embodiment, a bin actuator having the features indicated above that is mounted below a large discharge opening in a conventional stationary bin, while responding to the same type of helical vibration to effect both types of material discharge from the bin free of excess beadroom; either embodiment can also eliminate vertical space consuming pant leg type discharge chutes, and provide for optional divided flow of the bulk solid materials therefrom.
Abstract:
A storage bin arrangement especially suited for bulk solid material storing and discharge in accordance with impelled retrieving concepts, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically, 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more inverted cone inserts applied internally thereof in spaced relation above the bin low profile bottom section, and in a second embodiment, a bin actuator having the features indicated above is mounted below a large discharge opening in a conventional stationary bin, while responding to the same type of helical vibration to effect both material discharge from the bin free of excess headroom; either embodiment can also eliminate space consuming pant leg type discharge chutes, and provide for optional divided flow of the bulk solid materials therefrom.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a car side wall vibrating mechanism adapted to densify a bulk lading going into the car, or to facilitate unloading of lading from the car and wherein the natural frequency of structural beams facing the car is higher than the speed of the motors driving the mechanism, which are mounted in fixed relation to the beams and located between spaced elements adapted to engage the beams with the car side wall, with such spaced elements having separate supporting structures with the entire structure supported on a base having means anchoring the car rails with anchor means embedded in the base. The arrangement utilizes multiple stabilizers for the elements referred to, with at least one such stabilizer under the motor mount.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an adjustable drive vibrating device, such as a vibrating conveyor, vibrating feeder and the like. Basically, the device comprises: a container, means mounting the container such that it can vibrate as a free mass, drive means including an electric motor for vibrating the container at a prescribed frequency and stroke, and control means for selectively adjusting voltage applied to the motor and thereby selectively altering the frequency and stroke at which the container is vibrated by the drive means. However, in particular accordance with the present invention, the drive means motor comprises a three-phase A.C. squirrel cage electric motor, and the control means adjust the voltage applied to only two of the three phases of the motor, while a substantially constant voltage is maintained on the third phase of the motor.