Rick Wendell BAJEMA,Keith Alan BARBER,Stephen GRAHAM,Peter L. HAYES,Kevin KRETER,Julian ROMANCZUKIEWICZ
申请号：
US14624416
公开号：
US20160235110A1
申请日:
2015.02.17
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
A method and apparatus for controlling a flow of a product over a product attrition bed, where the product comprises a plurality of product units, for example, potatoes. In one aspect, apparatus comprises a product attrition bed and an auger positioned above the product attrition bed. The auger comprises a flow restriction mechanism to restrict a discharge flow of the product from the auger. In a second aspect, the method comprises feeding the product to the auger to provide a product charge substantially confining the product charge in a charge space rotating the auger to move the charge space, and thereby the product charge, in the flow direction and discharging the product charge from the auger through a flow restriction mechanism. In a third aspect, the method and apparatus controls the feed of product to the auger, for example, providing one control volume of product per revolution of the auger.
