US PATENT SUBCLASS 239 / 672
.~ Including driven conveyor or follower feeding material horizontally towards scatterer

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239 /   HD   FLUID SPRINKLING, SPRAYING, AND DIFFUSING

650  DF  CONTAINER FOR NON-FLUID MATERIAL, AND SCATTERING MEANS {21}
672.~ Including driven conveyor or follower feeding material horizontally towards scatterer {7}
673  DF  .~.~> Plural scatterers receiving material axially
674  DF  .~.~> Feed means outside of primary supply container
675  DF  .~.~> Screw conveyor
676  DF  .~.~> Including movable gate, barrier or valve upstream of scatterer
677  DF  .~.~> Speed varying means for driven scatterer or feed
678  DF  .~.~> Limit means stopping feed
679  DF  .~.~> Rotating scatterer receiving material peripherally {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 239/672

(under subclass 650) Apparatus comprising means acting on the material in the supply holder for delivering it in a horizontal direction toward the strew-means, said delivering means comprising (1) a driven conveyor or (2) a means acting as an end of the material in the supply holder.

(1) Note. If a series of strewing means is claimed, (e.g., a rotating "beater" throwing material to a rotating "widespread") a strewing means upstream of the final means is considered to be a kind of conveyor. If, however, such a series of strewing means is shown, but the final one is not

claimed then an upstream strewing means, e.g., a beater, which, as claimed, functions like a final strewing means, is considered to be a final strewing means for purposes of placement under the definition of subclass 650.

(2) Note. In order to qualify under this definition, there must be a substantial horizontal component of motion.

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671, for a supply holder and a means which acts substantially in a linear direction on the top portion of the material to move the material, in the manner of a rake, towards the strewing means.