ITEM-BY-ITEM FEEDING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food industry. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to equipment for transforming multi-pass flow of items with fragile case into one flow and it can be used, for instance, in candy curds production line for delivery of curds into automatic packing machine. Proposed device contains horizontal disk installed for rotation, fixed guard over periphery, feed conveyor, outlet and diverting channels, curvilinear guide mounted on bracket over disk and made to curve intersecting circular trajectories concentric to disk at constant angle α providing displacement of item from trajectory of minimum radius to trajectory of outlet channel at one revolution of disk. Angle α should not exceed 15 degrees. Device is furnished also with pusher to displace item from outlet channel into diverting channel. Pusher is rigidly coupled with adjustable stop installed for displacement across movement along outlet channel. Reciprocation of stop and pusher is adjusted by electromagnet and curd presence pickup. EFFECT: cut down losses caused by distortion of form and appearance of items in fragile case in process of orientated feeding. 3 dwg