WEIGHING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G01G13/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: weighing apparatus for weighing sticky and/or flexible material of a product such as fresh meat, marinated meat, poultry meat, fish and corresponding pieces and/or sticky materials, has a feeding device for feeding material of the product to be weighed, at least one proportioner for controlled delivery of portions of the material of the product from said feeding device to the weighing system. Said proportioner has a conveyor screw driven by a motor, made in form of a spiral-shaped rod and placed in an open trough for delivering material of the product from the feeding device to the weighing system and a control unit for controlling the motor so as to feed the required portion of the material of the product into the weighing system, wherein the connection between the conveyor screw and the motor has clip-on mechanism to simplify assembly, dismantling, cleaning and replacing the conveyor screw and/or core.

EFFECT: possibility of smooth, accurate delivery of products which are not suited to vibration transportation or transportation by a conveyor screw, placed in a tubular casing.

15 cl, 3 dwg