| 摘要 |
A filler material dispensing and recycling machine including an emptying table with louvers for directing a flow of air over the surface of the table. Incoming packages may be emptied on the table, the items packed therein removed from the filler material which also was therein, and then the air flow sweeps the filler material from the table and back into a filler material hopper. Outgoing containers may also be packed with filler material, arriving on a conveyor, passing under a dispensing tube connected to the filler material hopper, filled with filler material from the hopper, and then traveling onward on the conveyor. A collection hopper adjacent the edge of the emptying table collects filler material swept off the table, and presents the filler material to an air conveyor system which carries the filler material back to the filler material hopper. Removable rollers may be placed above the emptying table, creating a filling configuration which allows packages to be filled with filler material from the dispensing tube, with overflow filler material passing through the rollers and then being recycled by the air conveyor system to the filler material hopper. With the removable rollers removed, an emptying configuration is created, allowing containers to be emptied on the emptying table. Pressurized plenums with angled louvered slits therein direct the flow of air over the emptying table and along the air conveyor system.
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