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WO1993017912A1 - Distributeur de pates alimentaires - Google Patents

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WO1993017912A1
WO1993017912A1 PCT/US1992/002029 US9202029W WO9317912A1 WO 1993017912 A1 WO1993017912 A1 WO 1993017912A1 US 9202029 W US9202029 W US 9202029W WO 9317912 A1 WO9317912 A1 WO 9317912A1
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Antonio Virgilio Rosso
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/34—Packaging other rod-shaped articles, e.g. sausages, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws, welding electrodes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B37/00—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged
    • B65B37/04—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged by vibratory feeders

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  • the present invention relates to a device for dispensing elongated foodstuffs, particularly pasta in filament form.
  • Known dispensers of this type comprise a hopper containing the foodstuff, for example elongated pasta in filament form, such as spaghetti.
  • the hopper includes an outlet provided with a plurality of adjustable blade elements arranged in a predetermined sequence to identify a batch of the product which, catching in the blade elements, is then conveyed to the inlet of a machine adapted to process that product.
  • the object of the present invention is'to provide a dispenser capable of eliminating the aforesaid disadvantages and permitting the separation of a very specific batch of the product and the proper positioning of the units of the product comprising the batch, to facilitate subsequent processing.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a dispenser that is easy to manufacture and equally easy to operate in solving the aforesaid disadvantages.
  • a dispenser of elongated foodstuffs, particularly pasta in filament form which comprises a hopper, elements that separate out a batch of the product and finally, an element capable of collecting and containing the product to be introduced into a processing machine, characterized by the fact that said elements for determining and separating out a batch of the product include a flat element mounted on a slant below a hopper outlet, to which is connected a downward-facing blade element that is substantially adjustable in a direction parallel to the surface of that element, said flat element being caused to oscillate and vibrate with respect to a base frame supporting the respective blade element, and by the fact that the element collecting and containing the batch of the product to be dispensed substantially comprises a cylindrical container with a longitudinal opening in a portion of its lateral surface, capable of being alternatively opened and positioned below the free end of the flat element in order to receive the batch of the product, and closed and repositioned next to an inlet of
  • Fig. 1 is a side elevational view, with parts broken away, of a dispenser embodying the features of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is an elevational view, taken on arrow F, of a detail of the device shown in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a view similar to that of Fig. 1, but from a different operating position;
  • Fig. 4 is a detail, with parts broken away, taken on line IV-IV of fig. 3.
  • a dispenser substantially comprises a hopper 11, containing filament-shaped foodstuffs of an elongated form 12 such as pasta or spaghetti, elements separating out a batch of the product, located in the middle of the device and generally indicated as 13, and finally an element 14 capable of collecting and containing the separated batches of the product.
  • This dispenser is positioned near an inlet of a subsequent machine (not shown) which processes the batch of the product to be dispensed, provided with a stop valve such as a ball valve 15.
  • the hopper 11 is provided with a hollow parallelepiped-shaped upper body, equipped with a lid 17, and having a lower, elongated Z-shaped portion 18 with a lower outlet 19 provided above the separating elements 13.
  • Those elements 13 include a base frame 20, on which a flat element 22 acting as an oscillating and vibrating "slide,” is mounted to the front and rear by means of flat band-like elements 21, made of music wire, for example.
  • An appendix 23 projecting below the flat element 22 supports a sheet metal structure 24 capable of interacting and working with a complementary laminar electromagnet 25 anchored to the base frame 20.
  • the portion of flat element 22 farthest from the outlet 19 of the hopper 11 is normally slanting downward; attached to the hopper is a chute-like element 26, made of a flexible plastic, for example, which is normally aligned with the flat element 22.
  • an oscillating arm 28 which other, free end is equipped with an arcuate plate 29 turned upward, and which inhibits rocking of the flexible chute-like element 26.
  • the upward-facing posts 30 of the oscillating limb 28 support a pilot bar 32 to which a downwardly extending blade or vane element 31 is slidably mounted for movement longitudinally of element 22 by means of manually adjustable slide 32a.
  • Convenient restraining means, such as thumbscrew 32b on slide 32a allows blade 31 to be immobilized in any desired location downstream of outlet 19.
  • the blade element 31 is thus readily moveable in a direction substantially parallel to the surface of flat element 22 and stops the product before it reaches the chute-like element 26.
  • An element 14 collecting and containing the batch of the separated product is positioned, as stated above, to meet the free end of the flat element 22 or, even better, the end of the chute-like element 26.
  • That element 14 comprises a cylindrical container with two coaxial walled portions 33 and 34, one inside the other; substantially similar longitudinal openings, 35 and 36 respectively, are provided on a portion of their lateral surfaces that, when aligned, are capable of receiving the end of the chute-like element 26 and consequently the batch of the product selected on flat element 22.
  • the collecting and containing element 14 is solidly anchored and axially aligned with a subsequent arm 37 that is hinged to the frame of the device at 38 and may be caused to rotate 90° until it meets valve ,15 at the inlet of a processing machine (Fig.
  • the collecting and containing element 14 must also be fitted with an end wall having a movable closure 14a which opens only when the element 14 is in its upright position as illustrated in Fig. 2.
  • actuating means (not shown here) rotate or displace the closure 14a, clear of the end of cylinder 14, thereby permitting the contents of the cylinder to fall through valve 15.
  • the hopper 11 is filled with a foodstuff 12 such as spaghetti, which must be fed into the processing machine in pre-selected and successive batches.
  • the dispenser will thus be in the position shown in Fig. l with the simple difference that no presence of the product will be found, either on the free end of the flat element 22 or inside the cylindrical container 14.
  • actuating means not shown here establish the anti-clockwise movement of the oscillating arm 28, which consequently raises the blade element 31.
  • the oscillation and vibration of the flat element 22 are established by the activation of the electromagnet 25, which acts on the sheet metal structure 24.
  • the foodstuff 12 thus tends to slide down along the slanted flat element 22 and, as shown in Fig.
  • the oscillating arm 28 After a predetermined time period permitting the passage of the pre-selected batch, the oscillating arm 28 is brought down so that the blade element 31, interacting with the surface of the flat element 22, stops additional material from descending from outlet 19 of hopper 11.
  • the lowering of the oscillating arm 28 also permits the simultaneous lowering of the chute-like element 26 positioned at the longitudinal openings 35 and 36 meeting the collecting and containing element 14. That position permits the batch of the product 12 to descend into the cylindrical container.
  • the lever 39 is then rotated to close the cylindrical container before the latter, supported by the aforesaid arm 37, is rotated and positioned to meet the inlet of the processing machine where the ball valve 15 is located.
  • the traction lever mechanisms equipped with rods 40 solidly anchored to the arm 37, simultaneously open the ball valve 15 while the cylindrical container is above the latter. Only at this point does the mobile wall 14a of the cylindrical container open, permitting the batch of the product and end wall 14a is replaced in the container to be fed into the processing machine below.
  • the aforesaid arm 37 brings the cylindrical container back to the chute ⁇ like element 26 and thus the flat element 22, and the loading cycle of the cylindrical container is repeated, after the longitudinal openings 35 and 36 of the same are realigned in the open position to receive a batch of the product.
  • the particular arrangement of the components allows for a smaller top section, permitting, as in the particular embodiment shown, the simultaneous operation of the cylindrical container containing the batch and the ball valve at the machine inlet.
  • Dispensing the product by means of the flat element that oscillates and vibrates at an adjustable frequency permits the ample and accurate adjustment of the product's dispensing, while ensuring the correct feeding position of the elongated product.
  • the ability -to adjust the blade element that stops the product emerging from the hopper onto the underlying flat element is also advantageous.
  • the particular Z-shape of the lower portion of the hopper outlet also makes it possible to securely maintain the upright position of the product in the hopper, even when it was previously fed in at random, allowing the elongated, filament-shaped foodstuff to exit in a homogenous and parallel fashion.

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Abstract

Distributeur de produits alimentaires allongés, notamment de pâtes sous forme de filaments, permettant d'identifier une portion de produits alimentaires (12) contenus dans une trémie (11), afin de maintenir le produit allongé dans une direction prédéterminée parallèle à un récipient pour une seule portion (14), et d'inclure ce même récipient qui peut se déplacer, en pivotant, entre une positon située au-dessous de l'orifice de sortie de la trémie et une position en about contre l'ouverture d'une machine de traitement de produits alimentaires.
PCT/US1992/002029 1992-03-13 1992-03-13 Distributeur de pates alimentaires Ceased WO1993017912A1 (fr)

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PCT/US1992/002029 WO1993017912A1 (fr) 1992-03-13 1992-03-13 Distributeur de pates alimentaires
AU21989/92A AU2198992A (en) 1992-03-13 1992-03-13 Pasta dispenser

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EP1129947A1 (fr) * 2000-03-02 2001-09-05 Studio Tecnico Per.Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Machine de dosage pour des pâtes alimentaires
EP1129948A1 (fr) * 2000-03-02 2001-09-05 Studio Tecnico Per.Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Machine de dosage pour des pâtes alimentaires
CN105539959A (zh) * 2016-01-15 2016-05-04 登封市启明轩程控设备有限公司 一种挂面整理装置及使用该装置的挂面输送线系统

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GB728782A (fr) *
US2661830A (en) * 1951-07-30 1953-12-08 Mach Automatiques Bardet Sa Mechanism for distributing slim articles
FR1204405A (fr) * 1957-04-05 1960-01-26 Hesser Ag Maschf Dispositif d'adduction d'objets en forme de barre à une balance automatique
US3126288A (en) * 1964-03-24 Method of dispensing particles of meat
US3145742A (en) * 1959-06-10 1964-08-25 Nat Dairy Prod Corp Packaging apparatus including a hopper, a metering assembly and movable trays
FR2262625A1 (en) * 1974-03-01 1975-09-26 Gatineau Jacques Metering device for fruit and vegetables - has rotary recessed drum metering output from hopper
EP0149435A2 (fr) * 1983-12-13 1985-07-24 Antonio Lecce Machine pour la mise en carton de pâtes alimentaires du type "Cannelloni" ou similaire

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GB728782A (fr) *
US3126288A (en) * 1964-03-24 Method of dispensing particles of meat
US2661830A (en) * 1951-07-30 1953-12-08 Mach Automatiques Bardet Sa Mechanism for distributing slim articles
FR1204405A (fr) * 1957-04-05 1960-01-26 Hesser Ag Maschf Dispositif d'adduction d'objets en forme de barre à une balance automatique
US3145742A (en) * 1959-06-10 1964-08-25 Nat Dairy Prod Corp Packaging apparatus including a hopper, a metering assembly and movable trays
FR2262625A1 (en) * 1974-03-01 1975-09-26 Gatineau Jacques Metering device for fruit and vegetables - has rotary recessed drum metering output from hopper
EP0149435A2 (fr) * 1983-12-13 1985-07-24 Antonio Lecce Machine pour la mise en carton de pâtes alimentaires du type "Cannelloni" ou similaire

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1129947A1 (fr) * 2000-03-02 2001-09-05 Studio Tecnico Per.Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Machine de dosage pour des pâtes alimentaires
EP1129948A1 (fr) * 2000-03-02 2001-09-05 Studio Tecnico Per.Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Machine de dosage pour des pâtes alimentaires
US6386391B2 (en) 2000-03-02 2002-05-14 Studio Tecnico Per. Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Metering machine for pasta
US6446843B2 (en) 2000-03-02 2002-09-10 Studio Tecnico Per. Ind. Giuseppe Vezzani Metering machine with device for the fine metering of pasta
CN105539959A (zh) * 2016-01-15 2016-05-04 登封市启明轩程控设备有限公司 一种挂面整理装置及使用该装置的挂面输送线系统
CN105539959B (zh) * 2016-01-15 2018-08-17 登封市启明轩程控设备有限公司 一种挂面整理装置及使用该装置的挂面输送线系统

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