Patent ID: 6679694
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: B27N,G01G

Abstract:
Forming station comprising at least one dosing hopper, out of which a total material flow of flowable materials, comprising wood chips or fibers provided with a binder agent, is discharged onto a conveying apparatus and delivered by the conveying apparatus to at least one spreading apparatus, which spreads the total material flow of the chips or fibers in a controllable quantity to form a fleece thereof onto a forming belt, wherein the conveying apparatus comprises a dosing belt scale (2) which is arranged between the dosing hopper (1) and the spreading apparatus (3), and by means of which the an actual conveying rate of the total material flow on the dosing belt scale is determined as a mass per unit time, and further comprising a regulating unit, which regulates the conveying of the total material flow by the dosing belt scale based on the determined actual conveying rate (kg/s) and in consideration of a prescribed nominal conveying rate (kg/s).