US937152A - Counting and receptacle-filling machine. - Google Patents

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B. E. KALLENBAGH. COUNTING AND RBGEPTAGLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-- 15, 190B.

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B-II. KALLENBAGH. COUNTING AND RBGEPTAGLB FILLING MAOHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD E. KALLENBACI-I, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO PFEIFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

COUNTING AND RECEP'IACLE-FILLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1909.

Application filed August 15, 1908. Serial No. 448,680.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. KALLEN- BACH, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Counting and Receptacle-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan View of a count-ing and receptacle-filling machine embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevational view thereof; Fig. 3 is a front elevational view thereof; Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view on the line 44:, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a crosssectional view on the line 5-5, Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a detail plan view of the disk-carrying ring, showing the cooperative relation between the tappets carried thereby and the slide-actuating lever and the disk-revolution counting-wheel or dial; Fi 7 is a horizontal sectional view on the line (7, Fig. 3; Fig. 8 is a detail view of the receptacle-shifting pawl or dog; Fig. 9 is a plan view of a counting and delivery disk for the tablets,

pills, or the like; and Fig. 10"is a fragmentary view of a modified form of tablet or pill counting and delivery disk.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in counting and receptaclefilling machines, and more particularly to machines for counting tablets, pills, or the like, and filling receptacles withthe-same, the object being to provide a machine of the kind described by which the handling and counting of tablets, pills, and the like is facilitated and the filling or packing into receptacles of a predetermined number or quantity of such tablets, pills, and the like is easily and quickly accomplished.

Vith this object in view, my invention consists in the provision of means for handling and counting tablets, pills, and the like of different sizes or forms in the same machine; in the provision of means for delivering and filling into receptacles of a predetermined quantity or number of such tablets, pills, or the like; in the provision of means for intermittently feeding receptacles or packages into position to be filled with said tablets, pills, and the like; and in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, all as will hereinafter be described and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a base, on which is mounted a frame comprising preferably a front-plate 2, a rear-plate 3, side or cross-pieces 4, and a top member or table 5. Upon table 5 is mounted a hopper 6, in which the tablets, pills, or the like are adapted to be laced preparatory to being counted and filled into the receptacles or bottles X.

Rotatably mounted on the bottom of hopper 6 is, what I term, a tablet-counting and delivering disk 7, which is provided near its margin and for the great part of its outer area, see particularly Fig. 9, with circular series of perforations or holes 7 but leaving along its margin a non-perforated section or portion 7'. The disk 7 is arranged to project at one side, see particularly Figs. 1, 2, and 4, outside hopper 6 through an opening 8 in the front wall of hopper 6, so as to overlie an opening 9 in the front part 10 of table 5, for which openin 9 said non-perforated section 7 of disk I is designed to act as a cover at a certain period of the revolution of said disk, and under which opening is adjustably mounted a chute 11 for delivering the tablets, pills, or the like received in and carried by perforations 7 in disk 7 into the receptacles or bottles X, as more fully hereinafter described.

Disk 7 is mounted on or carried by a rotatable ring or gear 12, which has a hub portion 13 projecting through a central opening 14 in disk 7. Ring 12 has also 011 its upper surface, see particularly Fig. 4:, a stud or tappet 15 adapted to project through a small opening or pocket 7 c in disk 7, whereby said diskis revolved or rotated on the rotation of said ring 12.

Hub 13 is arranged on a supporting spindle 16 having a base portion 17 arranged on a shelf 18 mounted on side-pieces 4: in the upper part of the frame of the machine and beneath the table 5. Ring 12 is provided on its under side with a circular beveled rack 19, which is adapted to mesh with a bevel pinion 20 secured on a shaft 21 journaled in said base portion 17; and in alinement with shaft 21' andon the opposite side of said base portion or frame 17 is journaled an idler bevel pinion 22, which also meshes with rack 19 and supports and balances said ring 12.

On the outer end of shaft 21 is mounted a pulley 23, which is belted down. to a driving pulley 24 mounted on a counter-shaft 25 arranged on rear-plate 3 of the frame of the machine. Shaft 25 has also mounted there ona pulley 26 adapted to be belted to an electric motor or other source of power 27. It will thus be obvious that, on the rotation of pulley 26, the disk '7, through the mechanism described, will be rotated to deliver through opening 9 into the receptacle X therebeneath the tablets, pills, or the like carried in the perforations 7 3 thereof.

Adjustably anddetachably mounted on the front-plate 2, see particularly Fig. his ar'bracket 28 having a supporting-arm -29 projecting forwardly atherefromi and on which arm is arranged. a work-table 30. The said bracket 28 has a slot-and-pin connection with said front-plate 2, whereby said bracket may be Vertically adjusted on front-plate'2, or may be, together with the parts attached thereto or mounted. thereon, entirely I removed from the machine,for purposes hereinafter stated, said bracket 28*:being secured to, and held in adjusted positions on, said front plate 2 by means of the thumbscrew=31.'.

Extending around one end of table 30 .is an endless feed-belt 32, which isadaptedito carry the receptacles of bottles .X inwardly to be filled. Belt 32 is carried at one side of table-3O by an idle roller 33 mounted in adjustable brackets 3-1 arranged onthe under side of table 30. Brackets 34 have a slot.- and-pinconnection with the under side of table 30, whereby slack .in belt--32 may be taken .up :whenever necessary, said. brackets beingheld in adjusted positions by thumbscrews 35. At the inner side of the table 30, belt 32 is carried by a driving pulley 36 fixedly :mounted on a shaft 37 journaled on the bracket 28. On the outer end ofshaft 37 is fixed a pulley 38, which is belted to a pulley 39 mounted on the shaft 21, whereby, on the rotation of ring 12, by the mechanism heretofore described, belt 32 will be rotated around said pulleys 33 and 36 for feeding bottles X or other receptacles inwardly to be filled. r

Adjusta-bly mounted on table 30 adjacent to and parallelwith feed-belt 32 is a guideplate 40, and atthe opposite side of said feed-belt and on saidv table 30 is adjustably mounted a, plate 41, whose inner portion is widened and terminates some distance short of the front face of bracket 28, thereby providing a passage-way across the front of the machine and beneath chute 11= for the receptacles X to be filled, as shown particularly inFigs. 1 andgt'. The plate 40has preferably .a' slot-and-pinconnection withthe table 30 and is secured in adjusted positions by a thumb-screw 12, said plate -10 being adj ustable laterally with respect to table 30, so that, in connection with plate 41, the passage-way over said belt 32 may be regulated to fit different sized receptacles to be filled. The plate +11 is provided with an enlarged circular opening 43, over which is adapted to be placed a washer 41 having a central opening therein, whereby said washer may be placed over a threaded pin or stud 15 mounted in table 30, the plate 41 being held in adjusted positionsion said-table 30 by a thumb-screw 46. fitting on said-pint5. By this arrangement, the plate 41 is universally adjustable, so that not only may the passage-way for the receptacles over said belt be regulated, in connection with .plate 40, but. also the said passage-way across the frontv of the machine and beneath chute 11 may be regulated to accommodate different sized receptacles whichrit may be desired to fill with the tablets, pills, or the-like, said receptacles .beingthus held in alinement and in proper position to. be filled.

In the front face of bracket 28 is formed a; groove or slide-way 17, which is preferably under-cut, so as to accommodate a beveled slide48, on the rear side of which slide is mounted-astud or pin 49 projecting i11- wardly :through an elongated .slot 50 in bracket 28. The pin 49 is. connected by a link-51 to a:.r.ocking-lever ,52 pivotally mountedwon front-plate 2. Slide; 48, is normallyheld in its retractedv position, as shown in'dotted lines in Fig. 3, by a spring 53,this spring 53'. being connected at one end to rocking-lever 52 and at its other endto the front-plate 2. The upper end of rockinglever 52 -.l1asaninturned portionor projection 54, whiclris adapted to be struck by. a tappet on the-periphery of disk-carrying wheel .12, seeparticularly Figs. 3 and 6, so that, once duringevery revolution of said ring 12, the rocking-lever 52 is rocked, thereby .moving the slide 48 and the receptacleshifting .pawl or dog 56 across the front of the machine to shift or feed a receptacle or bottle X under the chute 11. The pawl or dog 56 is pivotally mounted near the end of slide 18- and has at its inner end a tail-piece 57, adapted to contact with preferably a rubber bufi'er 58 arranged in .the end of slot 50 to :throw the dog 56 outwardly perpendicularto the slide 48-when said slidc'is in its normal or retracted position, ready to engage and shift'a receptacle or bottle X under chute 11 to be filled.

The chute 11- is preferably adjustably mounted on-the under side of the forward portion 10 of table. 5 by means of an anglebracket 59. One arm of said brackethas preferably a slot-and-pin connection with chute 11, and the other arm :of said bracket has preferably a slot-and-pin' connection with portion 10 of table 5, whereby said chute is not only adjustable vertically, but

also laterally, with respect to said table 5, and may also be swung outwardly away from front-plate 2, the said chute being held in adjusted positions by means of thumbscrews 60. Chute 11 is thus adjustable to accommodate different sized receptacles and to properly feed the tablets, pills, and the like thereto.

Adjustably mounted in the front wall of hopper- 6 is a slide 61, which has a slot-andpin connection therewith, the slide 61 being held in adjusted positions by means of a thumb-screw62. This slide 61, when in its lowered osition, is adapted to nearly touch against disk 7, thus not only assisting to keep disk 7 in position on hub 13, but also closing opening 8 in the front wall of hop per 6, so as to prevent'the escape of any tablets, pills, or other articles therein. It will also be seen that the tablets, pills, or the like will be forced into proper position in perforations 7 a by said slide 61 before they can pass thereunder on the rotation of said disk 7. i

63 indicates what might be termed a defiector-plate, which is somewhat of a conical shape and is adapted to fit on the bottom of hopper 6 over the central part of disk 7, as shown particularly in Fig. 5. Plate 63 is provided on its under side with a central bore 63 adapted to fit hub 13 of ring 12 and is also provided on its under side with a circular groove 63 to allow for the passage of stud or tappet 15 on the rotation of ring 12 and disk 7. This plate 63 thus not only serves to cover the said hub 18,- but also to deflect the tablets, pills, or the like outwardly on to disk 7 and into the perforations 7 therein, this plate 63 being cut-away at one side, see Fig. 1, so asto fit closely up against slide 61, when saidslide 61 is in its lowered position. As shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, the deflector-plate 63 may be made of various diameters, so as to regulate the capacity of disk 7 by covering part of the perforations 7 a therein, for purposes herein after stated.

From the above description, the operation of my machine is clear. The tablets, pills, or'the like are placed or put in the hopper 6, which is usually kept pretty well filled, the tablets, pills, or the like falling or being deflected into the perforations 7 of the disk 7. Depending-upon the number of tablets, pills, or the like it is desired to fill into a receptacle X, the disk 7 will have so many holes or perforations, that is to say, should it be desired to pack, say, fifty tablets in a bottle X, the disk 7 will have fifty perforations therein to accommodate and deliver to said receptacle fifty tablets. It will be seen that disks 7, as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, may be made with various numbers and sizes of perforations to accommodate different sizes and numbers of tablets to be packed in the receptacle, each perforation being large enough to accommodate and deliver one of the certain kind or size of tablet, pill, or other article, but not large enough to accommodate or deliver two such tablets, pills, or

other article. It will also be plain that such disks 7 may be made in any number and are readily interchangeable in the machine, the disk 7 being easily removable after elevating slide 61 and raising the deflector-plate 63.

In Fig. 1, the parts are shown as just finishing the filling of a bottle X with the tablets or pills carried and delivered by the perforations 7 of disk 7 on one revolution thereof and said non-perforated section 7" of disk 7 is just beginning to cover and close said opening 9 in part 10 of table 5; the tappet 55 is also about to contact with projection 54 of rocking-lever 52 to actuate slide 48' to bring forward or shift, by means of dog 56, an empty receptacle or bottle X under chute 11. When the revolution of disk 7 is completed, said non-perforated section 7 thereof will cover said opening 9, during which time, tappet 55 having become engaged with rocking-lever 52, an empty receptacle is being automatically shifted under chute 11 by dog 56 on slide 48. The passage-way over said belt 32 and across the front of front-plate 2 and under chute 11 having been regulated by the adjustment of plates 40 and 41 to accommodate a certain sized receptacle or bottle X, and chute 11 having been adjusted to cotiperate with, and to properly deliver the tablets or other articles into, said receptacle or bottle, the said receptacles or bottles X are fed on to belt 30, which carries the same into contact with or adjacent to slide 48. Now, when said tappet 55 engages with said rockinglever 52, said slide 48 and therewith dog 56 are actuated, against the tension of spring 53, and the dog 56, engaging the receptacle or bottle X brought adjacent to slide 48 by belt 32, shifts the same across the frontplate 2 in the passageway described under chute 11. On the continued revolution of ring 12 and disk 7, said non-perforated section 7 is removed from above opening 9, and, the perforations 7 registering therewith during such continued revolution of disk 7, the tablets, pills, or the like carried therein fall therefrom through chute 11 into said receptacle. As soon as tap-pet 55 is disengaged from rocking-lever 52, the slide 48 fiies back to its normal or retracted position, due to the tension of spring 53, during which movement of slide 48,-t-he dog 56 is flat against the outer surface of said slide, soas, in returning to its outermost position, to pass and not upset the succeeding receptacle or bottle which has been brought forward by belt 32 adjacent to slide 48 and readyto be shifted by dog 56 under chute 11. After said dog 56 has thus passed said succeeding receptacle and has reached the end of slot 47, the tail-portion 57 thereof strikes against buffer 58 and throws dog 56 outwardly perpendicular to slide 48, in position to engage and shift the next succeeding receptacle under chute 11.. As soon as disk 7 has, made a revolution and emptied the tablet-s, pills, or the like therefrom into the receptacle under chute 11, said non-per forated section 7 again closes opening 9, tappet 55 contacts with or strikes rockinglever52, slide 48 is actuated, and the nextsucceeding bottle or other receptacle is shifted by dog 56 under chute 11, ready to be filled on the continued revolution of disk 7 and the opening of opening 9 with a predetermined number of tablets, pills, or the like, of a certain kind or size depending upon the number and size of the perforations 7 of disk 7, the said succeeding receptacle, on being shifted under chute ll, pushing from under chute 11 the preceding receptacle which has just been filled, and so on, the same series of operations being gone through with on each revolution of disk 7, the hopper 6 being kept filled with tablets, pills, or the like, and the bottles X or other receptacles being fed along belt 32 and intermittently shifted by dog 56 under chute 11 to be filled. As stated, as each bottle or other receptacle is shifted by dog 56 under chute 11 to be filled, it pushes the preceding bottle or receptacle out from under chute 11 and along said passage-way across the front of the machine, the receptacles or botl tles being thus delivered on the work-table 30 to an operator, ready for sealing, wrap in or otherwise.

The plates 40 and 41 may be readily and quickly adjusted to fit any sized receptacles, such as bottles, boxes, or other packages, so that there .will be no play and such receptacles will be exactly placed under the chute 11, as before described, and chute 11 may be lowered or adjusted laterally along the forward part 10 of table 5, whereby the delivery-opening therein is brought above said receptacle and the escape of tablets prevented. I

It may sometimes be desired to fill a receptacle with a larger number of tablets, pills, or the like than could be accommodated and delivered by a disk 7 on one revolution thereof. In such event, either the next succeeding receptacle is removed by the operator before it has been shifted by dog 56, the first receptacle being thus allowed to remain under chute 11 for two revolutions of said disk 7, and so on; or the bracket 28 and therewith table 30 and associated parts may be easily removed from front-plate 2 by unfastening thumb-screw 31, disconnecting the belt-connected pulleys 38 and 39, and disconnecting stud 49 from link 51, after which the receptacle may be placed under chute 11 and allowed to remain there any length of time, depending upon the number of tablets it may be desired to place therein. And in order to facilitate the counting of the number of revolutions of disk 7 so that the proper predetermined number of tablets may be packed in such receptacle, I rotatably mount in a cut-out portion in the lower central part of the front surface of slide 61 a star-wheel 6%, which is held in place in said cut-out portion by a plate 65, the outer surface of plate 65 being flush with the outer surface of slide 61. Star-wheel 6& has a dial on its outer surface containing or bearing usually the numerals 1 to 10 inclusive, one of which numerals is adapted to show through a small circular opening 66 in the plate 65 on each revolution of disk 7, to indicate to the operator the number of revolutions of disk 7, the projecting prong or tooth of said star-wheel, as shown particularly in Figs. 3 and i, being actuated on each revolution of disk 7 by tappet 15 striking thereagainst and rotating said star-wheel to show the next succeeding numeral through opening 66. In this way, should it be desired to fill a receptacle with, say, 1000 tablets and the disk 7 then in the machine only had perforations to accommodate and deliver tablets, the operator would know by watching said dial when twenty revolutions of said disk had been made and that 1000 tablets had then been packed into said receptacle. On the other hand, should it be desired to fill a receptacle with a smaller number of tablets, pills, or the like than there are perforations in the disk 7 then in the machine, to save the time required in removing said disk 7 then in the machine and inserting another disk 7 containing or bearing said smaller number of perforations, a deflector-plate 63 of larger diameter, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, may be substituted for the deflector-plate of smaller diameter. Thus, should the disk 7 then in the machine have perforations for accommodating and delivering 50 tablets, but it was desired to pack only 25 tablets in a receptacle, it would only be necessary to remove the deflector-plate 63 and substitute a deflectorplate of larger diameter which would cover the inner series of perforations 7, leaving hut perforations to accommodate and (leliver that numberof tablets.

It is thus seen that by my machine the tablets, pills, or other articles are easily and automatically handled and counted and that the various receptacles to be filled therewith are intermittently and successively shifted into proper position to be filled, it being only necessary, as is obvious, to keep the machine. supplied with the tablets, pills, or the like, and the receptacles fed to the ma chine, a great saving of time and labor being effected. Should it be at any time desired to clean hopper 6, I provide a small slide 67 in one side thereof for such purpose;

It is to be understood that while I have 1 herein described my machine as being used v and combination of the several parts may be made and substituted for those-herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention! Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of means adapted to intermittently feed receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said hopper, perforated means rotatably mounted in said hopper,'said perforated means being adapted to be continu ously rotated and to deliver into each of said receptacles a predetermined plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, and mechanism for operating each of said respective mean's'synchronically; substantially as described.

2. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of perforated means rotatably mounted in said hopper, said perforated means being adapted to be continuously rotated and, on each rotation thereof, to remove from said hopper and deliver to a receptacle to be filled a predetermined plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to continuously rotate said perforated means, and means adapted to automatically and intermittently feed receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said hopper on the rotation of said perforated means; substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of

reciprocatory means adapted to shift receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said hopper, perforated means rotatably mounted on said machine adapted to remove from said hopper and deliver to said receptacles a number of said tablets, pills, or

the like, mechanism for intermittently actuating said shifting means on the rotation of said perforated means, and mechanism for rotating said perforated means; substantially as described.

4. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of pills, tablets, or the like, of perforated means rotatably mounted in said hopper and adapted to periodically remove from said hopper and deliver to a receptacle to be filled a predetermined number of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism for rotating said perforated means, and reciprocatory means adapted to intermittently shift receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said hopper on the rotation of said perforated means; substantially as described.

5. In a machine of the kind described, the combination With a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of means having a plurality of perforations rotatably mounted in said hopper and adapted to remove from said hopper and deliver to receptacles to be filled a predetermined plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to rotate said means, and reciprocatory means adapted to intermittently shift said receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said hopper on the rotation of said perforated means; substantially as described.

6. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, perforated means rotatably mounted on said machine, said means being adapted to be continuously rotated and to intermittently remove from said hopper and deliver to said opening a predetermined plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to continuously rotate said perforated means, and means adapted to intermittently feed receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said opening on the rotation of said perforated means; substantially as de scribed.

7. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, perforated means rotatably mounted on said machine and adapted to periodically remove from said hopper and deliver to said opening a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism for rotating said means, and reciprocatory means adapted to intermittently shift receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said opening on the rotation of said perforated means; substantially as described.

8. In a machine of the kind described, the

combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a perforated disk rotatably mounted on said table and having a non-perforated section, said disk being adapted to be continuously rotated Within said hopper and over said table-opening, means adapted to pills, or the like, a perforated disk rotatably mounted in said hopper and having anonperforated section adapted to periodically cover said table-opening, means for rotating said disk, whereby on the rotation thereof said non-perforated section is periodically removed from over said opening and a number of said tablets, pills, or the like is periodically delivered through said opening, and reciprocatory means automatically operated on the rotation of said disk and adapted to intermittently feed receptacles to be filled into proper position relative to said open ing; substantially as described.

10. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a disk rotatably mounted on said table and adapted to rotate within said hopper and over said table-opening, said disk being provided with a plurality of perforations for accommodating a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, and with a non-perforated section, means for rotating said disk, whereby said table-opening is periodically closed and the tablets, pills, or the like carried by said perforations are periodically delivered through said opening,

; and reciprocatory means adapted to intermittently feed receptacles to be filled into operative position relative to said opening on the closing thereof during the rotation of said disk; substantially as described.

11. In a machine of the kind described,

the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted thereon and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a disk rotatably mounted on said table, said disk being provided with a plurality of perforations and with a non-perforated section and rotating within said hopper and over said tableopen ing, whereby on the rotation thereof said table-opening is periodically closed by said non-perforated section and said perforations periodically deliver to said opening a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to rotate said disk, means adapted to feed receptacles to be filled beneath said table opening, and reciprocatory means adapted to automatically shift said receptacles under said opening on the closing thereof; substantially as described.

12. In a machine of the kind described,

the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to contain a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a disk rotatably mounted on said table and adapted to rotate within said hopper and over said table-opening. said disk being provided with a plurality of perforations for accommodating a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, and with a non-perforated section, means for rotating said disk, whereby on each revolution thereof said table-opening is periodically closed by said non-perforated section and the tablets, pills, or the like carried by said perforations are periodically delivered to said table-opening, means adapted to feed to said table receptacles to be filled, and reciprocatory means adapted to successively shift under said table-opening on the closing thereof during the rotation of said disk said receptacles to be filled; substantially as described.

13. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper mounted on said frame and adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a beveled rack rotatably mounted on said frame, a perforated disk adapted to rotate within said hopper and over said frame-opening, a stud on said rack adapted to engage said disk to cause the same to rotate with said rack, a shaft meshing with said rack, and means adapted to rotate said shaft; substantiallv as described.

14. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper mounted on said frame to one side of said opening and adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a disk having a plurality of perforations and a non-perforated section, said disk being adapted to rotate within said hopper and over said frame opening, whereby said frame-opening is intermittently closed and tablets, pills, or the like are intermittently delivered to said frame-opening, a beveled rack rotatably mounted on said frame, a stud on said rack adapted to removably engage said disk to cause the same to rotate with said rack, a rotatable shaft meshing with said rack, and means adapted to rotate said shaft; substantially as described.

15. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of perforated means adapted to intermittently remove from said hopper a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to actuate said perforated means, reciprocatory means adapted during the a tuation of said perforated means to intermittently shift into operative position relative to said hopper receptacles to be fill-ed, and.

means adapted to feed said receptacles to said reciproeatory means; substantially as described.

16. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, of rotatable perforated means adapted to intermittently remove from said hopper plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to rotate said perforated means, reciprocatory means adapted during the rotation of said perforated means'to intermittently shift into operative position rel,- ative to said hopper on the rotation of said perforated means receptacles to be filled, and means adapted to feed said receptacles to said reciprocatory means; substantially as described.

17. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame, of a hopper thereon adapted to holda quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, rotatable perforated means mounted on said frame and'adapted to interniittently remove from said hopper a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to rotate said perforated means, a reciprocatory device adapted during the rotation of said perforated means to ntermittently shift receptacles to be filled into operative position relative to said hopper and perforated means, a belt-conveyer adapt.- ed to feed said receptacles to said reciprocatory device; substantially as described.

18. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper on said frame adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, means rotatably mounted on said frame and adapted to intermittently remove from said hopper and deliver through said frame-opening a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to rotate said means, a slide mounted on said frame, a dog on said slide adapted to engage receptacles to be filled, and means adapted to intermittently actuate said slide on the rotation of said rotatable means, whereby said receptacles to be filled are intermittently shifted into operative position relative to said frameopening; substantially as described.

19. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper on said frame adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, means on said frame adapted to rotate within said hopper and over said frame opening and to remove from said hopper and deliver to said opening a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, a rotatable gear on which said means is mounted, mechanism adapted to rotate said gear, a slide on said frame, a dog on said slide adapted to engage a receptacle to be filled, a rocking-lever on said frame, a link connecting said slide to said rocking-lever, a tappet on said gear adapted to intermittently engage with said rocking-lever on the rotation of said gear, whereby said dog is intermittently actuated to shift a receptacle to be filled into operative position relative to said frame-opening, a spring adapted to normally hold said rocking-lever in position to be engaged by said tappet, and a conveyor adapted to feed to said dog receptacles to be filled; substantially as described.

20. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame, of a gear rotatably mounted thereon, mechanism adapted to rotate said gear, a slide on said frame, a dog on said slide, a rocking-lever on said frame, a link connecting one end of said rocking-lever to said slide, a tappet on said gear adapted to intermittently engage the other end of said rocking-lever on the rotation of said gear, whereby said slide and dog are intermittently reciprocated on the rotation of said gear, and a spring connected to said frame and to said rocking-lever and adapted to normally hold said rocking-lever in position to be engaged by said tappet; substantially as described.

21. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a table having an opening in its top, of a hopper mounted on said table to one side of said opening and adapted to hold a quantity of tablets, pills, or the like, a chute adjustably attached to said table under said opening, a disk provided with a plurality of perforations rotatably mounted in said hopper and adapted to intermittently remove therefrom and deliver to said chute a plurality of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to rotate said disk, and reciprocatory mechanism adapted to intermittently shift receptacles to be filled under said chute during the rotation of said disk; substantially as described.

22. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, of a rotatable disk adapted to periodically remove from said hopper a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, said disk being removably mounted in said hopper, a plate adapted to removably hold said disk in position, and means adapted to rotate said disk; substantially as described.

23. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, of a rotatable disk adapted to periodically remove from said hopper a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, said disk being removably mounted in said hopper, a deflector plate adapted to removably hold said disk in position, and mechanism adapted to rotate said disk; substantially as described.

24. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a hopper adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, of a disk provided with a plurality of perforations rotatably mounted in the bottom of said hopper and adapted to periodically remove therefrom a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to rotate said disk, and interchangeable deflectors of various diameters adapted to be placed over said disk, whereby the effective capacity of said disk may be varied; substantially as described.

25. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame, of a hopper thereon adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like and having an opening in one side thereof, a disk rotatably mounted in said hopper and adapted to project through said opening in the side thereof, said disk having a plurality of perforations adapted to receive a number of said tablets, pills, or the like, mechanism adapted to rotate said disk, whereby said perforations are successively carried outside said hopper, and plates of various diameters adapted to be placed over said disk, whereby the effective capacity of said disk may be varied; substantially as described.

26. In a machine of the kind described,

the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper on said frame adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, means rotatably mounted on said frame and adapted to remove from said hopper and deliver to said opening a predetermined number of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to rotate said rotatablymounted means, a table on said frame adapted to support receptacles to be filled, means on said table adapted to form an adjustable passage-way thereon for said receptacles, and means adapted to intermittently feed said receptacles along said passage-way into operative position relative to said opening during the rotation of said rotatably mounted means; substantially as described.

27. In a machine of the kind described, the combination with a frame having an opening in its top member, of a hopper on said frame adapted to hold tablets, pills, or the like, means rotatably mounted on said frame and adapted to remove from said hopper and deliver to said opening a. predetermined number of said tablets, pills, or the like, means adapted to rotate said rotatablymounted means, a table on said frame adapted to support receptacles to be filled, a plate adjustably arranged on said table and adapted to form an adjustable passage-way thereon for said receptacles, means adapted to intermittently shift receptacles along said passage-way into operative position relative to said opening during the rotation of said rotatably mounted means, and means adapted to feed receptacles to said shifting means; substantially as described.

I11 testimony whereof, I. have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDIVARD E. KALLENBACH.

Vvitnesses IV. S. GAIWIN, JAMES L. $120012.

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