The present invention relates to a rotary-type metering device making it possible to dispense granular substances consisting of fine particles which are difficult to handle. The metering device consists of a spherical core rotating around a horizontal axis inside a casing comprising a feed orifice and an outlet orifice. The spherical core comprises at least one cavity having an opening at the surface of the core, and sides and bottom within the core. This cavity has the shape of a volume consist...

A powder dispenser for dispensing a metered predetermined volume of powder, such as instant coffee, in which a ratchet arm is slidably received within a slot in the bottom of a container, the ratchet arm being spring biased outwardly with a retaining shoulder and having a plurality of teeth in contact with the teeth of a circular ratchet gear which is fixedly attached to a stirring paddle rotating with the ratchet gear and stirring the contents of the housing; a dispensing disc coupled to the ra...

A device for dispensing a measured quantity of granular material from a container includes a cap adapted to be secured to the open end of the container, and a generally cup-like housing secured to the interior surface of the cap. A dispensing member is disposed within the housing, and is adapted to be rotated about the axis of the cap and housing by a lever which extends outwardly from the cap. The dispensing member includes a cylindrical chamber extending therethrough parallel to the axis there...

A plastic container is provided with a multi-part lid having a cutting edge which cuts into the side of the container and a dispensing compartment. Upon turning the lid in one direction a measured quantity of contents is forced into the dispensing compartment. Simultaneously a portion of the sides of the container are cut away and stored in a receptacle in the lid, the volume of the container being reduced an amount slightly greater than the quantity of contents dispensed. By turning the lid in ...

A measuring and dispensing closure for dispensing a measured amount of material from a container. The closure has a wedge rotatably secured between a pair of discs one of which is attached to the container and each having defined therein a dispensing slot which is offset from the other dispensing slot. The wedge has a metering chamber which is alignable with the dispensing slots in the discs for dispensing a metered amount of material from the container, and a sealing surface alignable with the ...

A device for the metering of plastic raw materials of granulate, or pulverulent, or highly viscous consistency in connection with plastic materials processing machines, where a rotating metering disc at the bottom of a drum-shaped receptacle discharges fixed amounts of material at a predetermined frequency, and where the semi-circular metering pockets on the periphery of the metering disc are wiped clean by a vertically extending radially and circumferentially flexible wiper finger which dislodg...

A technique for managing loops between network devices such as customer and carrier edge devices involves monitoring the MAC moves that occur at a device to detect the existence of a loop and initiating a loop protection action if the MAC moves indicate that a loop exists. The number of MAC moves that indicates the existence of a loop is user programmable and pre-established in the device configuration. The number of MAC moves can be expressed as a MAC move threshold, which is defined in terms o...

The invention relates to a network, in particular a PA PROFIBUS network having redundant properties and a linear topology. Two line ends are connected to a redundancy manager which disconnects said line ends in error-free conditions and connects them in error conditions. Said redundancy manager supplies voltage to the first line end for operating customers' mobile telephones each of which is connected to the network by a branching unit. After receiving a supply voltage on one connection thereof,...

A valve means having clustered sealable receiving chambers which after being filled material rotate to expose the chambers to an exit opening for emptying.

A method and apparatus for recovery from faults in a loop network (500) is provided. The loop network (500) has a plurality of ports (520, 530, 532, 534) serially connected with means for bypassing the ports (520, 530, 532, 534) from the loop network (500). A control device (522, 524) is provided with bypass control over at least one of the ports (530, 532, 534). A host means (502) sends a command to the control device (522, 524) at regular intervals and the control device (522, 524) has a count...