C, H, MALLETT,

CAN FILLING MACHINE,

APPLICATION FILED APR, 11, 1908,
920,597. Patented May 4, 1909.

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GEORGE HENRY MALLETT, OF COPAKE, NEW YORK.
CAN-FLING WASCENE.
No. 920,597. Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed April 11, 1908. Serial No. 426,510.
To all whom it may concern.
Be it known that , GEORGE HENRY MAL
LETT, a citizen of the United States, and a
resident of Copake, in the county of Colum
bia and State of New York, have invented a
new and Improved Can-Filling Machine, of
which the following is a full, clear, and exact
description.
This invention 'elates to can filling mal
O chines of the general character shown in Let
tel's Patent No. ST0,979, granted to me No
vember 12, 1907, for weighing unachines.
The laneans shown in said Letters Patent,
howevel, aie designed ior filling cans with a
powdered Ol' granulated material, whereas
the special purpose of this invention is to
pl’ovide means foi' filling the cans with cof
fee and other commodities in a whole or un
ground condition, and to enable the material
to be 'eadily and evenly delivered from a
hopper to the receiving cans.
Other objects 1'elating to the special con
struction and Special ali'angement of the sev
eral parts will be understood from the fol
lowing description and accompanying draw
ings, in Winich drawings like characters of
reference indicate like parts throughout the
views, and in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device em
30 bodying my invention provided with a hop
per, partly broken away; Fig. 2 is a hori
ZOntal section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig.
1; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on
the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.
35 As illustrated in the drawings, the main
frame of the device consists of vertical
standards 1, provided with cross arms 2 hav
ing a bearing 3 for a rotating shaft 4, the
upper end of the shaft being provided with
40 a beveled gear 5 which meshes with a corre
spondingly beveled gear 6 fixedly attached to
a shaft 7, which shaft is journaled in bearings
8 and provided on its outer end with a drive
wheel 9 having a clutch 10 of ordinary con
45 struction attached thereto. A scale for
Weighing the material may, if desired, be
used in connection with this invention and
an auxiliary frame supported upon the plat
form 11 of the scale. This auxiliary frame
50 consists of vertical standards 12 having a
transverse shelf 13 attached thereto, and
adapted to receive a tray 14 which holds a
plurality of receiving cans 15, the open ends
of which cans are arranged in line with the
55 lower ends of a plurality of pockets 16 hav
ing their lower ends provided with trap
Patented May 4, 1909.
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door's 17 and hinge pins 18, by means of
which the doors are secured to the pockets.
Springs 19 are connected with the trap doors
and the pockets so as to ciose said doo's 60
against the bottom of the pockets. A re
ciprocating rod 20 is mounted to slide longi
tudinally in the uprights 12 of the auxiliary
frane, and provided with laterally extend
ing ai'ins 21 which are connected with the 65
free ends of the doors 17 of the pockets,
thereby adapted to open and close said dool's
in unison. The upper ends of the pockets
16 are airanged in line with chutes 22 at
tached at their upper ends to the base 23 of 70
a hopper 24. The base of the hopper is at
tached to the uprights 1 of the main frame,
and is provided with a plurality of discharge
apertures 25 which are preferably arranged
in a circular line, as shown in Fig. 3, while 75
the pockets 16 may be auranged in straight
lines, if desired, the Outer pockets being in
clined at their lower ends so that the lower
ends of Said pockets will extend in line with
each other. Blades 26 are attached in 80
any suitable manner to the outer portion of
a disk 27, which disk is rigidly attached to
the shaft 4. The diameter of the disk 27 is
less than that of the hopper 4, leaving a
Space between the outer periphery of said 85
disk and the inner wall of the hopper for
the material within the hopper to drop down
on to the base of the hopper between the
blades 26, while the disk 27 serves to support
the bulk of the material in the hopper and 9 ()
prevent said material from packing togethe'.
After the material within the hopper has
dropped between the disk 27 and the inner
wall of the hopper 24, said material is drawn
inward by the curved blades 26 and drawn 95
over the apertures in the base of the hopper
which are below the plate 27, therebyena
bling Said material to pass through the open
ings 25 in the base of the hopper, the chutes
22, and into the pockets 16 from whence the 100
material is discharged into the receiving
cans 15. The blades 26 preferably corre
spond in number with that of the discharge
apertures in the base of the hopper, and
these blades are preferably spaced from 105
each other to correspond with the distance
between the apertures in the base of the
hopper so that each blade will feed an equal
amount of material into the pockets 16 ar
ranged below the chutes 22 connected with O
the openings in the hopper.
The disk 27 by extending over the aper
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'es of the hopper not only supports the
sterial Within the hopper, but also pre
hts the material in the hopper from chok
ing Said discharge apertures and enable a
polition of the matelial in the hopper to fall
between the disk 27 and the wall of the
hepper, and be drawn under the disk 27 by
the blades 26 thereby insuling an even dis
tribution of material into the respective
O chutes and pockets connected therewith.
liaving thus described the invention, what
claii) as hew and desire to secure by Let
tel's latent is:
1. The combination with a hopper pro
vided with a plurality of discharge aper
tiles, of a 'otatable shaft arranged within
Said hopper, a disk fixedly secured to said
shaft and arranged within said hopper with
its periphery spaced fron the inner wall of
2 said hoppei', and extending over said dis
sharge apertures, and a plurality of blades
having their inner ends arranged back of
said disk and adapted to travel over said
apeitures, and their outer ends extending
approximately to the inner wall of said 25
hopper.
2. The combination with a hopper pro
vided with a plurality of discharge aper'-
tures of a rotatable shaft arranged within
said hopper, a disk fixedly secured to said
shaft, smallel in diameter than that of the
hopper, extending over Said discharge aper
tures, and a plurality of curved blades ar
l'anged back of said disk and adapted to
Sweep over said discharge apertures and to
extend at their outer ends approximately to
the inner wall of Said hopper.
In testimony whereof I have signed my
name to this specification in the presence of
two Subscribing witnesses.
GEORGE HENRY ALLETT.
Witnesses:
PETER. S. WILSEY,
FRANK WILCOX.