Patent ID: 6206247
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: B65G,G01F

Abstract:
A rotary valve comprising:a housing having a cylindrical chamber provided with radially disposed inlet and outlet passageways;a shaft journaled in said housing extending through and disposed coaxially relative to said chamber; anda rotor mounted on said shaft within said chamber having a first set of circumferentially spaced material receiving pockets communicable with said inlet and outlet passageways for receiving material through said inlet passageway and discharging said material through said outlet passageway, and a second set of circumferentially spaced material receiving pockets communicable with said outlet passageway for discharging material through said outlet passageway;a cylindrical wall of said chamber having a passageway provided with an inlet communicating with a leading side of said inlet passageway and an outlet communicable with said second set of pockets for guiding material received through said inlet passageway and not received within said first set of pockets, to said second set of pockets.