reciprocating or rotating cutter, a rotating hopper and spout, a
rotating slotted cone, a reciprocating hopper and fixed cutter,
bucket cutter with either bottom dump or inverting discharge,
slotted belt, rotary disk divider, mechanical stopped or moving belt sweeper, or other acceptable devices for dividing the
sample. Typical mechanical sample dividers are shown in Fig.
1. These illustrate various designs, but other acceptable designs
are available.