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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354235 | Discharge elbow for a forage harvester A discharge elbow for a forage harvester. The discharge elbow includes a frame-shaped support assembly and at least one locking element attached to the inside of the support assembly. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7008163 | Bulk storage bins and methods and apparatus for unloading same One embodiment provides for a material reclaiming apparatus for use with a bulk storage bin. The bulk storage bin includes a bottom which defines an elongated plurality of outlet openings from the storage bin. The material reclaiming apparatus includes a plurality o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6843633 | System and apparatus for filling containers with bulk particulate materials A particulate material conveying apparatus generally consisting of an upper conduit having a material receiving inlet; a first intermediate conduit communicating with the upper conduit and swivable relative to the upper conduit about a first axis; a second intermedi... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6632063 | Method and an arrangement for filing a silo A method and an apparatus for filling a silo (1) with a fluidizable material. The arrangement includes conveying devices (5, 9) for supplying material to an upper area of the silo and a central material distributor (10). The material distributor includes ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 5702183 | Discharge apparatus having orbitally moving discharge ring A silo-like container includes an apparatus for discharging material within the container. The container interior bottom member leaves an annular opening with respect to the container walls, through which opening material may fall to be collected. A prefe... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5685688 | Multi-stage inflatable floor bed for container or container liner A cargo flow control system for bulk cargo containers. The system uses an inflatable bag positioned between the floor of the container and the cargo. When the bag is inflated, it slopes downward from the front of the container to the discharge door at the... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5622467 | Discharge means for a silo A discharge mechanism for a silo comprising an entry chamber adapted to be in communication with the silo interior and having a directing member mounted in the entry chamber, for rotary movement about a vertical axis, to direct flowable material in the en... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5582796 | Feed and orientation mechanism in automated analyzer An analyzer for performing automated assay testing. The analyzer includes a storage and conveyor system for conveying cuvettes to an incubation or processing conveyor, a storage and selection system for test sample containers, a storage and selection syst... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5498120 | Mud pan apparatus A mud pan apparatus provided for use in combination with a well drilling device. The mud pan apparatus includes a housing having a bottom, opposed sidewalls and opposed end walls. Together, the bottom, sidewalls and end wall of the housing form a reservoi... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5286161 | Method of producing silage removal channel A method of producing a silage removal channel. The method comprises the steps of disposing an inflatable tube within an empty silo, inflating the tube, filling the silo with feedstuff, deflating the tube and then withdrawing the same from the interior of... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5093949 | Apparatus for cleaning liquid storage tank A self-propelled, sludge cleaning machine including a sludge auger, a sludge pump, crawler tracks and hydraulic motors for propulsion, steering and pumping is assembled at a job-site and inserted into the storage tank through a top access opening. A tethe... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5067928 | Coin and/or token operated and handling apparatus Supplemental coin and/or token storage, transportation and dispensing apparatus for coin and/or token operated and handling machines whereby the coin and/or token payout hopper of such machines may be rapidly replenished with coins and/or tokens. The supp... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5061145 | Apparatus for picking up and transferring lightweight articles An improved apparatus for picking up, transferring and depositing lightweight articles. The apparatus includes a driven rotary member having a pluality of tubular arms extending from circumferentially spaced portions of the member. The ends of these arms ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4998855 | Equipment for storing and unstoring bulk material An arrangement for storing and removing bulk material in a round pile, in which a truss is rotatable about a vertical axis on a substructure. The truss carries a material depositing belt and a bulk material receiver which is pivotable in a vertical direct... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4960229 | Vibratory type storage bin arrangement with internal baffling and low profile bottom A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin its... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4828448 | Non-consolidating discharge feeder Previously belts, drag chains or screw feeders have been used to discharge a bulk material, such as wood pulp and the like, from a storage bin or hopper at the required rate. A problem with such feeders is obtaining uniform withdrawal of material from the... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4810156 | Bulk bag unloading station A bulk bag unloading station having a frame from which a bag containing powdery, granular or fibrous material and having a bottom spout, may be suspended; a base plate with an opening; and a mechanism above the base plate for intermittently shaking a bott... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4806058 | Material handling device The device is operative to discharge the triangular ridge of grain, which remains in the bottom of a cylindrical storage bin after the bulk of the bin contents has been discharged by gravity through a central outlet in the bin floor. The device comprises ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4744714 | Bin vibrating discharge device for surge or blending bins or the like A vibrating discharge apparatus for discharging particulate stored material from a surge or blending bin or the like, having a discharge end, a discharge apron defining an support surface near the bottom of the bin extending in a substantially horizontal ... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4738289 | Apparatus for weighing granular or pulverulent bulk goods An apparatus for weighing granular or pulverulent bulk goods, where the bulk good is moved by reduced pressure from a silo through at least one conveyance duct to a scale and where the flow of material is lowered by increasing the proportion of air toward... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4732301 | Ice dispenser An arrangement for preventing the development of a frozen bond between individual pieces of cubed or crushed ice collected in a storage bin. The arrangement includes an upstanding flexible wall lining a majority of the inwardly facing wall surface of a st... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4702609 | Apparatus for mixing animal feed materials An apparatus for mixing materials for making animal feed, comprising a mixer including a pair of endless chains interconnected by parallel mixing members spaced from one another and forming a travelling endless conveyor. The chains are supported solely by... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4671030 | Bulk silo with aerated mixing or homogenizing chamber Bulk silo with essentially centrally located aerated mixing or homogenizing chamber whose wall comprises a plurality of permanent passage openings for the material from the main silo area and is connected to an inspection area. In order to improve inspect... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4583663 | Valve assembly and automatic control system for material handling and storage bin A flowable granular, powder or flake material storage bin of the type having an inflatable generally cup-shaped bag with a blower for inflating and a blower for deflating the bag has a valve assembly of unique construction for controlling high-volume low-... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4578013 | Device for picking up loose articles This device for picking up separately selected slack articles from a heap of articles disposed in a container comprises a movable handling arm adapted to be lowered into the container for picking up the selected article, for example a textile, just as it ... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4541765 | Trailer unloading apparatus and method Apparatus and method for unloading bulk material (M) from a rectangular trailer (10') comprising a collapsible rectangular liner (29) having a collapsible funnel-shaped base (31), said liner being hung extended in said container with said base (31) collap... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4536120 | Feeding means for feeding solid fuel from a storage silo or equivalent into a solid fuel heating boiler The invention concerns an apparatus for feeding solid fuel from a storage silo or equivalent to a solid fuel-using heating boiler. The feeding apparatus comprises a piston, which has been disposed to carry out a reciprocating motion within a tube which th... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4492508 | Bulk-storage apparatus with unloader A bulk-storage apparatus has a large hopper adapted to hold a large supply of bulk material and having a floor formed with a central outlet opening centered on a vertical axis and a side wall extending upward from the floor. An upwardly tapered hood gener... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4487542 | Gastight high-rise silos This invention relates to the draining of bulk materials which are not spontaneously flowable, from a high-rise silo in which the bulk material is fed from the top layer of the bulk material at any instant, into a central gravity shaft having a bottom ext... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4453875 | Displaceable liner for unloading wheel supported receptacles A wheel supported open top receptacle such as a railway car is provided with a liner arrangement comprising a plurality of belt members arranged between the end walls of the car with the sides of adjacent ones of the belts overlapped in the direction betw... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4415102 | Device for emptying a round bulk-material silo Device for emptying a vertical, round, bulk-material silo of simplified construction and reduced maintenance and cost of manufacture, and prevention of bulk materials discharged through an annular gap being impeded in its passage through a chute. Motor dr... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4408889 | Universal blending silo The present invention is a universal blending system and method for blending the material contents of a silo having a predetermined interior cross-sectional area by layer blending or across vertical columns, column blending, or a combination of layer and ... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4407035 | Modularized pneumatic tractor with debris liquefier By providing a tractor with easily disassembled and assembled modular construction, with pneumatic drive and with high-pressure hydraulic means and vacuum means for, respectively, liquefying collected debris and exhausting it from the work area, an unique... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4396337 | Grain silo for storage and mixing of layers of different grain kinds A round silo for storage of different kinds of grain, especially damp grain, in layers one above the other, in a predetermined ratio, so as to facilitate a desired mixture of different grain kinds. The silo is of the type including a central bottom outlet... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4358237 | Recovered solid waste storage building and method A large volume of recovered solid discrete waste material is adapted to be stored over a large storage area at the bottom of large volume bin space within a building having opposite sides and opposite ends and providing an enclosing housing having upstand... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4353676 | Bunker for tunnel boring The open topped telescoping bunker body is filled from above and material in the body can be discharged when the tail gate at the rear is opened. A double acting push plate is used to push material through the open tail gate and material falling into the ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4330948 | Method and apparatus for controllably breaking caked bed of drying hops A plurality of elongated flexible members are initially disposed in generally parallel relation over a foraminous support structure upon which a bed of hops to be dried is subsequently placed and through which heated drying air is to be subsequently pumpe... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4243346 | Unloader for taking feed from a horizontal silo Crank-operated rods are mounted on two vertically spaced apart crankshafts, which are driven to rotate in the same sense. Working tools are carried by said rods on the side thereof which faces the body of silage and penetrate said body as they move downwa... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4200422 | Closures of bunkers for holding refuse A refuse bunker of the kind having a horizontal open-topped pressing box disposed beneath a filling hopper and a pressing plunger which is movable longitudinally in the pressing box to feed refuse through an outlet opening of the bunker and, in use, into ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4157761 | Discharger mechanism A discharger mechanism is disclosed for discharging solids from the bottom of a pile. The discharger has a single reciprocating stoker rod and thus avoids misalignment and distortion so common in two reciprocating stoker rod discharger mechanisms. The dis... | 06/12/1979 |
