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The apparatus has a plurality of fluent-material-receiving chambers arrayed about a central, vertical pipe, and each chamber has a load beam extending therefrom. Gusset-type brackets, projecting from the pipe have slotted limbs through which the load beams pass, and opposite end of the load beams ar

The apparatus has a plurality of fluent-material-receiving chambers arrayed about a central, vertical pipe, and each chamber has a load beam extending therefrom. Gusset-type brackets, projecting from the pipe have slotted limbs through which the load beams pass, and opposite end of the load beams are coupled to load cells. Also, steel flexures are interposed between the limbs and the load beams pivotably to support the load beams thereon. Each beam has a counterweight fixed thereto, such counterweights being of weights which counterbalance the summed weight of its associated chamber and such components which are fixed to said chamber. Hence, weights of fluent materials introduced into the chambers can be directly read without there being a need to discount the chamber and components weight. Auger-type conveyors are provided for conducting fluent materials from each of the chambers to a blending tank. The latter has a mixing wand therein which is motor-driven to thoroughly mix the tank contents.

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Apparatus for weighing and blending fluent materials, comprising: means defining a support frame; a plurality of chambers for receiving fluent materials; means coupling said chambers to said frame; a pipe having a passage therewithin; said chambers being radially arrayed about said pipe; and conduit

Apparatus for weighing and blending fluent materials, comprising: means defining a support frame; a plurality of chambers for receiving fluent materials; means coupling said chambers to said frame; a pipe having a passage therewithin; said chambers being radially arrayed about said pipe; and conduits communicating said passage with said chambers; wherein said coupling means comprises load beams; each of said chambers has one of said load beams fixed, at a first end of each beam, to said chamber, said load beam extending from such chamber perpendicularly; each of said load beams penetrating said pipe; second ends of said load beams being fixed to load cells; said load cells being fixed to said frame; each of said load beams having prescribed counterweights secured thereto adjacent said second ends thereof; means coupled to said frame defining a blending tank; and means for communicating fluent material from each of said chambers to said blending tank.