US1301346A - Attachment for seed-package-filling machines. - Google Patents

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H. H. WILLIAMS.

ATTACHMENT FORSEED PACKAGE FILLING MACHINES.

TURNIP PPLICATION FILED mama. ms.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

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HERMAN H. wILLIAMs, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNbR To NORTHRUP, KING & 00., OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, AooRPoRA'rmN.

ATTACHMENT FOR SEED-PACKAGE-FILLING MACHINES.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN H. l/VIL- LIAMS, a citizen. of the United States, resident of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Attachments for Seed-Package-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

In fillingfpaper packages with seed preparatory to placing it uponthe market, a box or other similar receptacle is usually provided into which the filled packages fall from the filling machine. .VVhen the box is filled, it is placed in a storage rack and from these boxes the filled packages are picked out by hand and placed in the seed display cabinets or cases for consignment to the store where the seeds are to be sold. The packages lie in all positions in the receiving box, some fiat, some on edge, some at one angle and some at another, and considerable time is consumed by the person filling the seed cabinet in picking out and arranging these seed packa es.

The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide anattachment or adjunct to the package filling machine which will receive the filled packages and prevent them from piling one upon the other in the tray to which they are delivered from the filling machine.

My invention consists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating my invention in use in connection with a seed package filling machine,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same,

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2,

In the drawing, 2 represents a suitable frame on which the package filling machine is mounted. This machine is well known in the art and as I make no claim to any portion of it I have merely illustrated a part of the machine sufficient to make my invention clear and its operation in connection with this machine understood. 3 is a reciprocating spout to which the filled pack- Specification of Iletters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

Application filed December 3, 1918. Serial No. 265,153.

ages are delivered from a portion of the machine, which I will indicate by reference numeral 4:. A reciprocating movement is imparted to this spout to feed the packages by means of a rod 5 pivotally connected with the spout and mounted at 6 in a pivoted arm 7 that is engaged by a revolving cam 8 and through the movement of which the desired reciprocation of the spout 3 is obtained. The pivoted arm is held up against the cam 8 by a spring device, not shown, it being a part of .the package filling machine to which'I make no claim. This much of the apparatusis old and a well known feature of package -filling machines in general use.

9 is an extension of said spout, supported in a suitable frame 10 that is downwardly inclined from the spout 3 and communicates with a tray 11, preferably of metal, open at the top and seated in the frame 10. The tray 11 has an open end which registers with the end of the spout 9 with suitable guides 12 for directing the packages from the lower end of the spout 9 into the tra the lower packages being fed downward y the pressure of those above.

To prevent the packages from tipping over to a horizontal position and piling one upon the other inv the receiving tray, I provide a roller 13 mounted on a rod let that is vertically adjustable in slots 15 in the side walls of the spout 9. This roller is positioned above the spout to contact with and retard the upper ends of the packages while the lower ends thereof are pushed forward, over the bottom of the spout 9 by the action of the reciprocating spout 3, until the packages assume the inclined position shown in Fig. 1 and are so fed down into the receiving tray 11 and upon contacting with the lower end of this tray will rise to a substantially upright position and fill the tray. When the tray has been properly filled, the attendant will remove it from the end of the spout 9 and substitute an empty tray therefor, one of which is shown on the platform of the frame 10 in Fig. 1. The filled tray is taken away by the attendant and placed in a suitable storage rack where the trays are allowed to accumulate until it is desired to fill the seed display cabinets. The roller 13 is capable of vertical adjustment in its supports so that it can be readily adapted for seed packages of different height.

packages backwardly so that their lowerends will be in advance of the upper porti-ons thereof, and the packages will assume an inclined positionin said receiving tray -When movement of the packagesis hecked and pressure of the rear packages upon those in front is continued.

2. The combination, with a reciprocating seed package delivering spout, of a receiving tray therefor and means mounted transversely of said spout in the path of the tops of the packages: for tilting said packages. to deliver them to said'tray.

3. The combination, with a reciprocating seedpackage delivering spout, of a receiving tray therefor and means adjustable vertically for tilting said packages to deliver them in a backwardly inclined position in said tray. 7

4. The combination, with a reciprocating seed package delivering spout, of a receiving spout therefor, a roller adjustably mounted aboviesaid receiving spout for engaging the tops of the filled packages and tilting them backwardly as they pass from said delivering spout to said receiving spout, and a tray whereto the filled packages are delivered from said receiving spout.

5. The combination, with a seed package delivering means-,- of a stationary trough Whereto the filled packages of seeds are de livered, a receiving tray for said packages, standards projecting upwardly on each side of said trough and having vertical slots therein, and means mounted in said slots and adjustable therein toward and from said trough and underwhich the filled packages of seeds pass for tilting said packages back-wardly so that their lower ends will be in advance of the upper portions thereofi, for the mrpiose specified.

In witness whereof, Ixhave hereunto set my hand this=26th day of November 1918.

HERMAN H. WILLIAMS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing: the Gommisslonen of Patents,

Washington, D. i

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