公开(公告)号：US5044504A

公开(公告)日：1991-09-03

申请号：US541949

申请日：1990-06-22

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G17/32

CPC分类号： B65G17/32 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2207/42 ,  Y10S209/934

摘要： A sorter sorts discrete bruisable articles, such as pieces of fruit like apples, with minimum bruising. A continuous conveying chain has a number of discrete article supporting elements connected to it for linear movement with it, and for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the chain. At various stations along the chain a self-singulating section is provided in which the articles are singulated onto the supporting elements, a weighing section (or like property determining section) is provided after the self-singulating section, and a discharge section is provided at which the articles are dischargee depending upon the weight sensed in the weighing section. The same chain supporting elements may continue through a second self-singulating section, a second weighing section, and a second discharge section. The supporting elements comprise plastic cups defining a shallow depression on a top face, e.g. a conically shaped depression with sidewalls making an angle of about 20.degree.-30.degree. with respect to the horizontal. The discharge section comprises a rail and a stationary cam having an upwardly angled cam surface located above the rail, and vertically spaced from the rail a distance slightly greater than the thickness of a pin extending from the cup. An electromagnet, or related mechanism, selectively deflects the pin so as to engage the angled cam surface to thereby ride up the cam surface and discharge the article carried by the cup.

摘要翻译： 分拣机排列不同的可擦伤物品，如水果如苹果，最小瘀伤。 连续输送链具有连接到其上的多个离散的物品支撑元件，用于与其直线运动，并且围绕平行于链条的轴线枢转运动。 在链条的各个站处，设置有自动分割部分，其中制品被分割在支撑元件上，在自分割部分之后设置称重部分（或类似属性确定部分），并且排出部分设置在 这些物品根据在称重部分中感测到的重量而排放。 相同的链条支撑元件可以通过第二自分割部分，第二称重部分和第二排出部分继续。 支撑元件包括限定在顶面上的浅凹陷的塑料杯，例如。 具有侧壁相对于水平线约20°-30°的角度的锥形凹陷。 放电部分包括轨道和固定凸轮，其具有位于轨道上方的向上倾斜的凸轮表面，并且与轨道垂直间隔开距离稍大于从杯延伸的销的厚度的距离。 电磁体或相关机构选择性地使销弯曲，以便接合成角度的凸轮表面，从而骑起凸轮表面并排出由杯承载的物品。

公开(公告)号：US5682748A

公开(公告)日：1997-11-04

申请号：US502755

申请日：1995-07-14

申请人： Roger S. DeVilbiss ,  Tony M. Quisenberry ,  Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Roger S. DeVilbiss ,  Tony M. Quisenberry ,  Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： F25B21/04 ,  G05D23/24 ,  F25B21/02

CPC分类号： F25B21/04 ,  G05D23/1917 ,  G05D23/24 ,  F25B2321/0212

摘要： A power control circuit for improved temperature control of thermoelectric devices to maintain the temperature of thermoelectric devices at a set point. The circuit includes a rectifying device to provide rectified alternating current when receiving an input from an electrical power source; a flyback power supply to supply a DC voltage to the thermoelectric device; a switching device to modulate the rectified alternating current across the primary of the flyback transformer; sensor circuitry to monitor the temperature of the thermoelectric device; and a programmable control device to receive an output from the sensor circuitry and provide a control signal to the switching device, the control signal being determined by the difference between the sensed temperature of the thermoelectric device and the desired set point to allow the DC voltage to the thermoelectric device to bring the temperature of the thermoelectric device to the set point and maintain the temperature of the thermoelectric device at the set point.

摘要翻译： 一种电力控制电路，用于改善热电装置的温度控制，以将热电装置的温度保持在设定点。 该电路包括整流装置，当从电源接收输入时提供整流的交流电; 用于向所述热电装置提供DC电压的回扫电源; 开关装置，用于调制跨越所述回扫变压器的所述一次侧的整流交流电; 用于监测热电装置的温度的传感器电路; 以及可编程控制装置，用于从所述传感器电路接收输出并向所述开关装置提供控制信号，所述控制信号由所述热电装置的感测温度与所述期望设定点之间的差确定，以允许所述DC电压 使热电装置的温度达到设定点并将热电装置的温度保持在设定点的热电装置。

公开(公告)号：US5086909A

公开(公告)日：1992-02-11

申请号：US374827

申请日：1989-07-03

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G17/32

CPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G17/32 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2207/42

摘要： Bruisable articles, such as pieces of fruit like apples, are singulated, sorted according to property (e.g., weight), and discharged with a minimum of bruising, even if the fruit is not treated with ALAR (diminozide). The cups for holding the fruit are continuously conveyed by conveying chains, and have larger, more steeply angled front and rear surfaces (in the direction of conveyance) than side surfaces so that the fruit will be held in place during conveyance but can be relatively easily discharged when the cup is tilted at a discharge station. Self-singulating is accomplished utilizing conveyors on either side of the row of cups, an overhead rotating brush, and elongated brush strips. The brushes of the brush strips gently engage the fruit and urge it into position within a cup. At the discharge section, a brush having polyethylene bristles of about 4-6 inches in length is rotated with a tangential velocity approximately equal to the velocity in the direction of conveyance of the fruit by the cups at the discharge area. The fruit falls into the brush bristles and is cushioned as it enters them, and it is discharged at a different level on another conveyor moving in a different direction.

摘要翻译： 如苹果一样的水果，可根据不动产（如重量）进行分类，并以最少的瘀伤排出，即使水果未用ALAR（二异氰酸酯）处理，也可以将其分解。 用于保持水果的杯子通过输送链连续输送，并且具有比侧表面更大，更陡峭的前后表面（沿输送方向），使得果实在运输过程中保持在适当位置，但可以相对容易地 当杯子在排放站处倾斜时排出。 使用在杯排两侧的输送机，高架旋转刷和细长的刷条实现自分离。 刷子条的刷子轻轻地接合水果并将其推入杯内的位置。 在排出部分，具有大约4-6英寸长度的聚乙烯刷毛的刷子以大致等于在排出区域处的杯子在水果输送方向上的速度的切线速度旋转。 水果落入刷毛，并在进入刷毛时被缓冲，并且在另一个沿不同方向移动的传送带上的不同水平处排出。

公开(公告)号：US06179129B2

公开(公告)日：2001-01-30

申请号：US09235275

申请日：1999-01-22

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C5342

CPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/3422 ,  B65G47/252 ,  Y10S209/912 ,  Y10S209/919 ,  Y10S209/934

摘要： An article transporting, and preferably also color and/or weight sorting, assembly and method, support the articles (.g. apples or like pieces of fruit), and effect precise rotation (e.g. within about 5°) of all apples transported thereby. This allows accurate determination of the apple's color by color sensing equipment (e.g. a color camera). The assembly comprises a support element, and two sets of cones mounted to the support by rotatable shafts, each set comprising first and second cones having a tapered exterior surface, the cones on each shaft facing each other and tapering to an imaginary substantially common midpoint. The cones support an apple essentially without the apple engaging the shaft. The cones may be of soft yieldable plastic or rubber with a first taper of about 25-35° (e.g. about 28°), and optionally one or more steps of different taper. The shafts are positively rotated substantially in unison by a gear mounted to the end of each shaft and engaging a stationary gear rack, so that for each 360° revolution of a shaft an apple supported by the cones rotates substantially 120°. The rack is designed to have only half or less the life of the gears.

摘要翻译： 输送物品，优选地还有颜色和/或重量分选，组装和方法，支撑制品（例如苹果或类似的水果片），并且实现由其转运的所有苹果的精确旋转（例如在约5°内）。 这允许通过颜色感测设备（例如彩色照相机）准确地确定苹果的颜色。 组件包括支撑元件和两组通过可旋转轴安装到支撑件的锥体，每组包括具有锥形外表面的第一和第二锥体，每个轴上的锥体彼此面对并逐渐变细到假想的基本共同的中点。 锥体支撑苹果基本上没有苹果接合轴。 锥体可以是具有约25-35°（例如约28°）的第一锥度的柔软可屈服的塑料或橡胶，以及可选的一个或多个不同锥度的步骤。 轴通过安装到每个轴的端部并啮合固定齿条的齿轮基本上一致地旋转，使得对于轴的每360°旋转，由锥体支撑的苹果基本上旋转120°。 机架的设计只有齿轮寿命的一半或更短。

公开(公告)号：US5345748A

公开(公告)日：1994-09-13

申请号：US053482

申请日：1993-04-28

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： G01G13/24 ,  B65B1/32 ,  B65B57/00

CPC分类号： G01G13/248

摘要： A bagger for fruit or other discrete articles ensures that the bag has a minimum weight of fruit but with the lowest overage practical. A weigh pan is fed by a first conveyor having a number of singulating lanes, with an individual weigh chute at the end of each lane. The conveyor is controlled to stop filling the pan once a certain number of articles (sensed by photosensors) have passed into the pan which is less than the expected number of articles which will meet the minimum weight of articles to be bagged. Then the individual weigh chutes are loaded with one article each, and the individual or combinations of weights of one or more articles from the weigh chutes are calculated. The desired individual combination is selected which causes the weight of articles in the pan to exceed the predetermined weight by the lowest amount, and that desired individual or combination of articles is fed to the pan, the weight is confirmed in the pan, then the pan tilted to discharge the articles. A second conveyor feeds the first conveyor, and a shunt is provided to divert all, none, or some articles from the second conveyor to the first conveyor.

摘要翻译： 用于水果或其他独立制品的包装袋确保了袋子具有最小重量的水果，但具有最低的实用性。 称重盘由具有多个单独车道的第一输送机供给，每个车道末端具有单独的称重槽。 一旦一定数量的物品（由光电传感器感测）已经进入盘中，输送机被控制以停止填充盘，该物品小于将满足要包装的物品的最小重量的预期数量的物品。 然后，个体称重滑槽每个装载一个物品，并且计算来自称重滑槽的一个或多个物品的个体或重量的组合。 选择期望的单独组合，其使得锅中的物品的重量超过预定重量最小量，并且将期望的个体或物品组合供给到锅中，在锅中确认重量，然后将锅重量确定 倾斜以排出物品。 第二输送机输送第一输送机，并且提供分流器以将所有的，没有的或一些物品从第二输送机转移到第一输送机。

公开(公告)号：US5183151A

公开(公告)日：1993-02-02

申请号：US658672

申请日：1991-02-21

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G17/32

CPC分类号： B65G17/32 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2207/42

摘要： A cup for conveying fruit, or other discrete bruisable articles to be sorted, is connected to a transporting chain. The cup has a first body of a first plastic, such as Delrin or UHMW, which has dimensional stability, which is connected to the transporting chain. The cup also has a second body of a second plastic which is of a less expensive/quality material, such as a softer material having the cost characteristics of EVA. The second body is irremovably connected to the first body and extends from it in a dimension opposite to the connection of the first body to the transporting chain, and the second body has a generally conical depression with the front and rear edges longer than the side edges and a varying angle of inclination, that prevents a discrete bruisable element from inadvertently moving out of the body. A trip tab may extend downwardly from the first body.

摘要翻译： 用于输送水果的杯子或其他待分类的可分离的可分离制品连接到运输链。 杯子具有第一塑料的第一体，例如Delrin或UHMW，其具有连接到输送链的尺寸稳定性。 杯子还具有第二塑料的第二体，其具有较便宜/优质的材料，例如具有EVA成本特性的较软材料。 第二主体不可拆卸地连接到第一主体并且以与第一主体与输送链的连接相反的尺寸从第一主体延伸，并且第二主体具有大致圆锥形的凹陷部，其前边缘和后边缘比侧边缘长 以及不同的倾斜角度，其防止离散的可擦拭元件无意中移出身体。 行程突片可以从第一主体向下延伸。

公开(公告)号：US4957619A

公开(公告)日：1990-09-18

申请号：US248199

申请日：1988-09-23

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G17/32

CPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G17/32 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2207/42 ,  Y10S209/912 ,  Y10S209/934

摘要： A sorter sorts discrete bruisable articles, such as pieces of fruit like applies, with minimum bruising. A continuous conveyor chain has a number of discrete article supporting elements connected to it for linear movement with it, and for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the chain. At various stations along the chain a self-singulating section is provided in which the articles are singulated onto the supporting elements, a weighing section (or like property determining section) is provided after the self-singulating section, and a discharge section is provided at which the articles are discharged depending upon the weight sensed in the weighing section. The same chain supporting elements may continue through a second self-singulating section, a second weighing section, and a second discharge section. The supporting elements comprise plastic cups defining a shallow depresssion on a top face, e.g. a conically shaped depression with sidewalls making an angle of about 20.degree.-30.degree. with respect to the horizontal. The discharge section comprises a rail and a stationary cam having an upwardly angled cam surface located above the rail, and vertically spaced from the rail a distance slightly greater than the thickness of a pin extending from the cup. An electromagnet, or related mechanism, selectively deflects the pin so as to engage the angled cam surface to thereby ride up the cam surface and discharge the article carried by the cup.

摘要翻译： 分拣机排列不可磨损的物品，如适用的水果，最小的瘀伤。 连续输送链具有连接到其上的多个分立的制品支撑元件，用于与其直线运动，并且围绕平行于链条的轴线枢转运动。 在链条的各个站处，设置有自动分割部分，其中制品被分割在支撑元件上，在自分割部分之后设置称重部分（或类似属性确定部分），并且排出部分设置在 这些物品根据在称重部分中感测到的重量而排出。 相同的链条支撑元件可以通过第二自分割部分，第二称重部分和第二排出部分继续。 支撑元件包括在顶面上限定浅凹陷的塑料杯，例如。 具有侧壁相对于水平线约20°-30°的角度的锥形凹陷。 放电部分包括轨道和固定凸轮，其具有位于轨道上方的向上倾斜的凸轮表面，并且与轨道垂直间隔开距离稍大于从杯延伸的销的厚度的距离。 电磁体或相关机构选择性地使销弯曲，以便接合成角度的凸轮表面，从而骑起凸轮表面并排出由杯承载的物品。

公开(公告)号：US5174094A

公开(公告)日：1992-12-29

申请号：US784471

申请日：1991-10-24

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B65B1/06 ,  B65B1/32 ,  B65B43/30 ,  B65B43/46 ,  G01G13/02 ,  G01G15/00

CPC分类号： G01G13/026 ,  B65B1/06 ,  B65B1/32 ,  B65B43/30 ,  B65B43/465 ,  G01G15/00

摘要： An automatic bagging machine and method gently and efficiently handle bruisable articles to be automatically bagged, such as apples. The bagger includes a weighing pan, a bag supply, a source of compressed air for inflating a plastic bag while it is held open at spaced points adjacent its top, and a cushioning arm assembly for engaging the exterior of the bag as it is being filled with articles to cushion the fall of the articles. A piston and cylinder moves the cushioning arm into engagement with the bag exterior while it is being filled, and away from the bag after the fall of articles has been effectively broken (cushioned). A number of conveyors that are independently controlled feed articles to the pan, and an ultrasound sensor senses the volume of the next article or articles to be fed to the pan in each conveyor path, and that conveyor or conveyors is or are operated which contains the next article or articles closest to the desired weight of articles in the pan, or slightly above it. After being filled, the bag is moved by a pair of spaced grippers in a horizontal plane, with at least a slight twist imparted to the bag as it is moved, so that the open top of the bag at least starts to move to be closed. The open top is then moved into operative association with an automatic tier, and tied closed.

摘要翻译： 自动装袋机和方法轻轻有效地处理自动包装的可擦拭物品，如苹果。 包装机包括称重盘，袋供应源，用于使塑料袋充气的同时在靠近其顶部的间隔开的位置处保持打开的压缩空气源和用于在袋被填充时接合袋的外部的缓冲臂组件 用文章来缓冲文章的坠落。 活塞和气缸在缓冲臂被充满时移动与袋外部接合，并且在物品的坠落被有效地破坏（缓冲）之后离开袋子。 多个独立控制的输送机将物品送入锅中，而超声波传感器感测下一个物品或物品在每个输送路径中被送入锅中的体积，并且输送机或输送机被运行， 下一篇文章或文章最接近平底锅中所需物品的重量，或略高于它。 填充后，袋子在水平面上被一对隔开的夹持器移动，至少在袋子被移动时给袋子施加轻微的扭曲，使得袋子的开口至少开始移动以被封闭 。 然后，开放顶部与自动层进行操作关联，并关闭。

公开(公告)号：US4177621A

公开(公告)日：1979-12-11

申请号：US905173

申请日：1978-05-11

申请人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

发明人： Harry C. Powell, Jr.

IPC分类号： B65B25/04 ,  B65B1/32

CPC分类号： B65B25/04

摘要： A method and apparatus for bagging bruisable discrete articles, such as apples. The apples are fed single file to a weighing device, and the feed of articles is terminated just before the desired predetermined weight of apples to be bagged. The weighing device is allowed to reach equilibrium, and then the weight of the apples is compared to the desired predetermined weight. If the weight is less than the desired amount, the apples are fed one by one to the weighing device until the predetermined weight is reached or exceeded, at which time the apples in the weighing device are dumped onto a pair of spiral brushes which convey the apples to a bagging station. At the bagging station, a bag is clamped and blown open, and is filled with apples being fed one at a time. The bag full condition is automatically sensed, at which point one of the clamps is released, and an arm supporting the other clamp is pivoted to swing the bag into operative association with an automatic tying machine.

摘要翻译： 一种用于包装可分离制品（如苹果）的方法和装置。 将苹果单个文件输送到称重装置，并且物品的进料在要包装的苹果的所需预定重量之前终止。 允许称重装置达到平衡，然后将苹果的重量与期望的预定重量进行比较。 如果重量小于期望的量，则将苹果逐个加入称重装置，直到达到或超过预定重量，此时称量装置中的苹果倾倒在一对螺旋刷上， 苹果到装袋站。 在装袋站，一个袋子被夹紧并吹开，并且一次装满一个苹果。 自动检测袋全部状态，此时夹具中的一个被释放，并且支撑另一个夹具的臂枢转以使袋与自动捆扎机操作关联。