Movable or removable closures – Processes
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-13
2009-12-15
Redman, Jerry (Department: 3634)
Movable or removable closures
Processes
C296S056000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07631459
ABSTRACT:
A gate regulator assists in unloading agricultural material from forage boxes by enabling a box gate to swing open without restriction, but the controlled the gate for slow swinging closed. At a gate release position, the gate regulator releases control of the gate so it swings freely by gravity from the release position to the closed position, and the freely swinging gate has enough momentum to relatch the gate closed. The gate regulator includes a fluid cylinder with a cylinder pin that is received in an L-shaped slot on the gate. During controlled swinging closed, the cylinder pin is within one of the slots of the L-shaped slot. At the gate release position, the junction of the two slots is at the cylinder pin, which then has room to move freely in the other slot and release the slot from the cylinder pin.
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Decker Daniel J.
Ingersoll Kelly L.
Meyer Manufacturing Corporation
Redman Jerry
Ryan Kromholz & Manion S.C.
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