HIGH SPEED TRANSPORTING AND WEIGHING MACHINE

摘要

5913 HIGH SPEED TRANSPORTING AND WEIGHING MACHINE There is disclosed a machine for transporting and weighing or checkweighing articles passing in succession thereon at high speeds, such as for use in conjunction with a rapid article feeding and take-away conveyor system or the like and with weight-signal transmitting/converting/calculating printout devices for visual display and price labeling operations or the like. The machine includes a stationary machine base and a vertically flexible weight-measuring means supported by said base. A rigid cage-like structure encompasses and is supported by said weight-measuring means, and an article conveying device and a power supply means therefor is carried by said cage-like structure and comprises in combination therewith the minusculely vertically shifting tare weight component of the machine. The conveying device and the power supply means and the construction elements of the cage-like structure are so weight-related and positioned in the cage-like structure as to be substantially statically balanced and in equilibrium about the axes of the weight-measuring means. Therefore, the measuring means is shielded from effects of transitory force impingements upon the tare weight assembly such as would otherwise induce torque moments to operate on the assembly about the axes of the measuring means.