Patent ID: 7849889
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: A24D,B65B

Abstract:
1. A machine comprising an applicator wheel for filling cavities with metered amounts of particulate material, a motivator for rotating the wheel, a series of equally spaced apart peripheral pockets on the wheel each having a perforated bottom wall, a vacuum manifold inside the wheel including a vacuum chamber for supplying vacuum to the perforated bottom walls of the pockets as the wheel rotates, a filling chamber of particulate material outside the wheel from which particulate material is withdrawn into the pockets by the vacuum chamber, a vacuum relief on the vacuum manifold for discharging particulate material from the pockets into the cavities at a predetermined discharge location on the wheel, and adjustment structure connected to rotatably adjust the position of the vacuum manifold within the applicator wheel to advance or retard the discharge location depending upon the speed of the machine.