Patent ID: 7278551

Claim:
A dosing hopper arrangement for supplying material strands for an apparatus for producing a structural panel from the material strands, said dosing hopper arrangement comprising: a hopper through which the material strands are to be fed, wherein said hopper has a hopper width in a width direction; and a feed arrangement adapted and arranged to feed the material strands into said hopper; wherein said feed arrangement comprises a dosing belt weighing scale, which comprises a feed conveyor belt arranged and adapted to convey the material strands in a conveying direction and a conveyor weighing device arranged and adapted to weigh the material strands on said feed conveyor belt; and wherein said feed conveyor belt has a belt width less than said hopper width in said width direction, and is pivotably or slidably displaceable horizontally in said width direction so as to be thereby adapted to distribute the material strands from the feed conveyor belt over said hopper width.