Apparatus for Dividing Powdered Material into Equal Parts and for Filling the same into Paper Bags or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Apparatus for Dividing Powdered Material into Equal Parts and for
Filling the same into Paper Bags or the like.
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I, PAUL WAGNER, of Essen on Ruhr, 1, Gänsemarkt, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to speedily divide powdered or granulated
material as for example, colours reduced to powder, spices or other drugs and to
fill the obtained equal parts into paper bags or the like.
For carrying my invention into effect 1 proceed as follows:-The material to
be divided into the seperate bags first put into a rectangular box or case, open
at the top, in such a manner that it fills the bottom thereof up to a uniform
horizontal level.
Now I insert into this box a device consisting of boards crossing each other
so that they form as many compartments as are required for dividing the material
into equal parts.
These compartments are of square horizontal section and have hopper-like
openings at the top. These latter take an upward direction, when the device is
inserted and pressed upon the material to be divided, thus causing the hoppers
to stand upright in a reversed sense, they number just as many as there are
compartments on the other side, at the bottom.
On these reversed hoppers the paper bags or the like are placed with their
open ends downwards into which bags the powdered material is to be filled and
upon these bags a second box, with its open part downward is put, when the
whole will be turned upside down.
The material in the first box being divided into equal parts by means of the
said compartments of the inserting device, drops now through the hoppers into
the paper bags or the like, and when the first box and the inserting device are
removed the filled paper bags remain in the second box and each bag contains
exactly the same quantity of material.
Apparatus for Dividing Powdered Material into Equal Parts and for
Filling the same into Paper Bags or the like
I, PAUL WAGNER, of 20, Wernerstrasse, Essen-on-Ruhr, Merchant, late of
1 Gänsemarkt, Essen-on-Ruhr, aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a device for dividing a fixed quantity of powdered
material by mechanical means into many equal parts and filling it into as many
paper bags or the like. The device consists of three parts; a box A for holding
the material to be divided, an inserted part B for dividing the material, and
lastly a second box C for receiving the paper bags etc. when filled with the
material.
The box A intended to hold the material to be divided has handles a¹ and is
lined with a suitable material zine plate, tin plate, nickel plate or the like..
The part B which divides the material poured into the box A into equal parts
consists of a fixed number of exactly equal compartments having a rectangular
section at one end.
These compartments are constructed in such a manner as to form a packet
which fits exactly into the box A. The rectangular section of the one end of
each individual compartment b gradually changes into the circular section bat
the other end.
A frame connects and maintains the compartments together and at the same-
time also serves as a support-resting upon the edge of the box A-when the
packet of compartments is put in and when the whole apparatus is turned over
as described later on, it prevents the inserted part B from falling out of the box A.
The third part of the whole apparatus which is intended to contain the paper
-bags-when-full-consists of-a-box-C-the-four-sides-of-which are connected to the
bottom by hinges and have extensions moving up and down in guides
adjustable by screws so that the depth of the box can be altered to suit the
height of the bags or little sacks used for holding the divided material. The
bottom and sides of the box C are held together by a frame 1) consisting of an
outer strip and cross bar or support and provided with handles d. The
frame D is fitted over the box C so that the latter can be held together or closed
by it.
The apparatus described above is used in the following manner; the powdered
material is poured into the box A and evenly spread over its bottom by a suitable
device. After this has been effected the part B comprising the compartments bis
inserted into the box A and the rectangular mouths of the compartments are
pushed into the powder as far as the bottom of the box the frame of part B
supporting itself on the edges of the box A. During the operation of smoothing
the powder a paper bag or the like into which the powder is to be filled is placed
over each of the compartments whose circular openings are now directed
upwards and the second box C can now be turned over the inserted part B with
the bags placed upon it. As during this operation the paper bags which do not
always stand quite straight especially those near the edge are easily jammed
in between the edges of the box the sides of the box Care as already stated
moveably connected to the bottom so that they need not be closed in from the side
until the box C has been put in position. The frame I) is pushed over the box C.
The apparatus is now turned over by means of the handles the powder is poured
through the compartments & into the paper bags 2 which are now below, the
box A is lifted off, and the part B removed, the filled paper bags being left in
the box C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
A device for dividing material in the form of powder into equal parts and for
filling it into paper bags and the like distinguished by two boxes AC and
a part B consisting of metal compartments 6 held together by a frame 2 serving
also as a support and which on being pushed into the powdered material uniformly
distributed in the box A, divides it into equal parts that are then-on the two

page_text: boxes (provided with handles) being turned over-filled into the paper bags
placed over the metal compartments and kept together by means of the box C
provided with moveable sides, and supporting itself by means of adjustable
iron bands on the frame 2 holding the metal compartments together and thus
on the box A, the frame which holds the metal compartments together prevent-
ing the part B from sinking on the paper bags in the box C.
Dated this 17th day of October 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.