Patent ID: 11953361
Assignee: nan
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 15:
16. A method of determining in a mechanized food-process line a weight pick-up or loss value of a flowrate of food product pieces transiting across a weighing transfer conveyor; said method comprising the steps of:
providing in series a relatively upline food-process line coating machine and a relatively downline weighing transfer conveyor;
the weighing transfer conveyor comprising an endless conveyor belt having an upper, food-product carrying run and a lower, return run;
the upper, food-product carrying run of the weighing transfer conveyor being elongated between spaced nose ends, one being an upline nose end and the other a downline nose end;
the weighing transfer conveyor being provisioned with spaced dual output-provisions of weight-flow flowrate values, one of the output-provisions of weight-flow flowrate values being proximate the upline nose end of the weighing transfer conveyor and the other of the output-provisions of weight-flow flowrate values being proximate the downline nose end of the weighing transfer conveyor;
inputting an inflow of food product pieces into the relatively upline food-process line coating machine;
conveying an outflow of food product pieces from the relatively upline food-process line coating machine on the upper, food-product carrying run of the weighing transfer conveyor;
providing a monitoring machine;
the upline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor providing weight-flow flowrate values to the monitoring machine with an upline weight-flow flowrate value of the outflow of food product pieces out from the relatively upline food-processing coating machine;
the downline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor providing weight-flow flowrate values to the monitoring machine with a downline weight-flow flowrate value of the inflow of food product pieces therepast; and
the monitoring machine differencing the downline value provided by the downline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor and the upline value provided by the upline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor and whereby, with the upline value provided by the upline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor, determining the weight pick-up or loss percent of the flowrate of food product pieces across the weighing transfer conveyor between the upline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor for providing weight-flow flowrate values and the downline provision of the weighing transfer conveyor for providing weight-flow flowrate values.