Arrangement for counting and apportioning of rod-shaped uni-directionally oriented goods, in particular electrode rods

摘要

An arrangement for counting and apportioning uni-directionally arranged rod-like goods, such as electrode rods. The arrangement includes a horizontal driven conveyor belt which transports the electrode rods along a predetermined feed path thereof to a rod feeding end of the conveyor belt. A paddle wheel and curved guide member are mounted immediately underneath the rod feeding end of the conveyor belt and conjointly form a rod receiving compartment. A light barrier having a light emitting path extending across the conveyor belt emits a pulse each time a rod moves past the light emitting path. A belt conveyor having a plurality of equidistantly mounted rod receiving chambers mounted thereon is disposed immediately underneath the paddle wheel and moves in synchronism with the paddle wheel. A brake motor or equivalent structure is drivingly connected to the paddle wheel and operatively connected to the light barrier, so that when a predetermined number of pulses, representing a given portion of the rod-like goods to be counted, have been emitted by said light barrier in accordance with the number of rod-like goods moving past the light emitting path, the brake motor cyclically and stepwise advances the paddle wheel so that the last rod forming said given portion of rods is dropped from said rod feeding end between adjacent paddles just prior to the paddle wheel being rotatingly advanced or indexed by the brake motor.