公开(公告)号：WO1992022387A1

公开(公告)日：1992-12-23

申请号：PCT/US1992005181

申请日：1992-06-16

Applicant: HOLLROCK ENGINEERING, INC.

Inventor： HOLLROCK ENGINEERING, INC. ,  HOLLROCK, Richard, H. ,  HOLLROCK, J., Richard

IPC: B08B03/04

CPC classification number: F26B17/10 ,  A63B47/002 ,  A63B47/04 ,  A63B2047/028 ,  A63B2047/043 ,  A63B2047/046 ,  F26B15/10

Abstract: A golf ball washer (12) feeds wet balls into an air moving transport mechanism that dries the balls as they are carried to one of a number of dispensers (10). The wet balls move by gravity down an inclined infeed chute (20) to a load station where each ball is supported on a flow disrupting ramp (25), and the transport conduit includes a necked down area (20) at the load station which cooperates with the ramp (25) to disrupt the air flow thereby avoiding the tendency of a spherical golf ball to remain suspended in the column of air rather than being moved downstream through the conduit (22). Each dispenser (10) has an intermittently driven drum (50) with radially outwardly open pockets (50a) to provide predetermined numbers of balls to a basket (60) at the discharge station of the dispenser (10).