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Class 414/317 - Route of material being discharged includes vertical segment through remainder of charge


Subclass of Class 414 - Material or article handling
Definition: Apparatus wherein the material being removed from the top
No. of patents: 19
Last issue date: 03/27/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7195440Agricultural silo auger system apparatus and method
An auger assembly that has three individual augers that function cooperatively to transport silage within a silo. Specifically, the auger assembly is used to manipulate silage during the loading and unloading of a silo. The first and third augers have the same fligh...
03/27/2007
7101140Apparatus for storage and unloading of granular material
The object of the invention is an apparatus for storage of wood chips in a curved-top stockpile the apparatus consisting of a central tower which supports a conveyor for loading the chips and a beam-like turning pile composer, and a unloading beam supported on groun...
09/05/2006
6944839Checking layout accuracy in integrated circuit designs
A method for checking layout accuracy in an integrated circuit design includes creating a schematic, adding a line width marker to selected lines having a width greater than an absolute minimum width, and assigning a line width to each line width marker. A layout is...
09/13/2005
6209964Dump truck vibrator
An apparatus for facilitating removing cargo from a dump truck. A plurality of air hammers are strategically located on an underside of a cargo bed of a dump truck and placed in operative communication with an on board air source carried by the dump truck...
04/03/2001
6203261Adjustable reclaiming device for moving bulk material
A reclaimer for moving grains and other bulk material in a desired direction includes a substantially cylindrical column upstanding within a storage silo. A track, mounted on the storage silo above the floor, concentrically encircles the column. A motoriz...
03/20/2001
5967729Bottom discharge, rotating ring drive silo unloader
This invention relates to a top loading, top unloading bottom discharge, ring drive silo unloader that is adapted for use with a hexapod suspension. The unloader features a stationary support frame with an open center concept. The support frame includes t...
10/19/1999
5203802Device forming an emptying screw for residual product stored in a silo
A device for the emptying of the residual product stored in a silo comprises a series of beams, for example, two or three beams. The first beam is mounted pivotably at a first end thereof on a pivot situated at the center of the discharge opening of the s...
04/20/1993
5112180Silo top unloader
A silo unloader having a framework and concentric oppositely driven rings with oppositely acting plows to shift particulate material in a silo to a central discharge defined by vertically spaced plates. The rings are driven by compressible rollers such as...
05/12/1992
4815925Circular storage container for granular materials with a vertically movable lateral conveyor
A circular storage container (1) for granular materials is provided with a central support column (4) for a top-loading filling device (9) and a lateral conveyor (20) for pivotal movement around the support column (4). The lateral conveyor (20) is connect...
03/28/1989
4775278Emptying device for silos
An apparatus for emptying silos enables a telescopically retractable vertical empyting pipe to retract downwardly with an overhead material gathering conveyor in continuous controlled motion without undesirable sudden retraction of individual telescopic c...
10/04/1988
4773808Emptying device for silos with telescopic fall pipe arranged in the silos
In the device according to the invention for emptying bulk material from silos (1), a telescopic fall pipe (24) is used as a delivery shaft for the bulk material to be emptied, which telescopic fall pipe (24) has at least one sliding pipe (27) which is ar...
09/27/1988
4721425Apparatus for conveying bulk material in silos
The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying a silo with bulk material and for discharging the bulk material from the silo, using a clearing unit which can be raised and lowered in the silo, and which at the same time is mounted pivotably about the...
01/26/1988
4645403Discharge installation for a silo
A discharge installation to be used in a silo for bulk material in powdered or granular condition comprising a central column of interspaced annular collar plates surrounding a central discharge chute, subsequent collar plates merging into each other form...
02/24/1987
4567920Force method of and apparatus for trickling siloed material from a silo
A force method of and assembly for trickling rock material from a silo. The bottom part of a silo is provided with a vaulting element and a pressure force is generated in a vaulting chamber or closed space below the vaulting element. For optimum trickling...
02/04/1986
4564317Silo for storing solidifying loose material, especially flue dust
Silo for storing solidify loose material, especially flue ash, which has a conveyor which can be moved on the surface of the stored material and which feeds the material loosened there to a conveyor device located in the silo which brings it to an exit op...
01/14/1986
4487542Gastight 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
4350468High-rise silos
A high-rise silo in which silage is fed radially by means of revolving feed members to a central vertical clearing shaft of the silo. The silage is withdrawn from the shaft at the bottom. The shaft itself is assembled from separate cylindrical pipe length...
09/21/1982
4214711Erosion device comprising a head with knives and process
An erosion device comprising at least one head and means for imparting to the head movements of rotation around an axis and of translation along said axis is improved due to the fact that: (a) the head comprises knives each having several teeth; on each knife ...
07/29/1980
4022335Spreading-unloading rotary sweep apparatus of the hole-forming sleeve type
A reversible rotary sweep has a single railless trough-less contemporaneously reversible 16" OD horizontal long auger and a depending holeformer composed of a 191/2" OD depending short auger and a surrounding 21" ID concentric sleeve. In unloading, a subs...
05/10/1977
 
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