Patent ID: 8530763
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G01G,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A counting scale for totaling the number of common articles transferred in stages relative to said counting scale, comprising: a weighing device for successively providing upon each staged transfer of the common articles a weight signal signifying the current weight, the weight signal having consecutive values progressively changing over the stages; a processing device coupled to said weighing device for calculating a count in response to the weight signal provided by said weighing device for staged transfers, said processing device being operable to programmatically apply more than one from a series of divisors to at least one of the consecutive values of the weight signal and obtain from one of the consecutive values a plurality of quotients, in order to automatically discern submultiples in the consecutive values by using a grading criterion selected from the group consisting of (1) closeness of a pair of quotients from different stages, and (2) nearness of a quotient to even division; and an output device coupled to the processing device for presenting the count calculated by said processing device.