Patent ID: 6293426
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
Method for off-loading incoherent material from a container, for dispensing the incoherent material itself towards a user unit positioned inferiorly to the container itself, comprising the phases of connecting an outlet of said container to a superior extremity of a conduit connected with the other extremity to said user unit; to said outlet being associated a valve element and to said conduit being associated a plurality of shut-off elements mutually distanced along the conduit itself and each able to vary the amplitude of the passage existing inside the conduit itself between a condition of closure of the passage and a condition of maximum opening; of placing all said shut-off elements in said closure condition; of causing the opening of said valve element; and of causing the progressive disposition of said shut-off elements, starting from the highest one and proceeding downward, from said closure condition to said condition of maximum opening.