Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Conveyor
Patent
1992-04-30
1994-11-15
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Conveyor
414303, 414310, 414326, 414503, B60P 142
Patent
active
053642236
ABSTRACT:
A mobile metering and storage apparatus which includes a mobile unit such as, for example, a tractor of a tractor-trailer unit adapted to transport, store and meter material accommodated in the mobile unit. A discharge conveyor is provided at a floor level of the mobile unit for receiving and discharging material from the mobile unit. At least one feed conveyor is disposed at a floor level of the mobile unit for feeding material to the discharge conveyor. The feed conveyor may take the form of a single tapered screw supported in a cantilever fashion along one side of the mobile unit or may be fashioned as two cantilevered tapered screw conveyors supported on a head assembly disposed substantially centrally of the mobile unit and extending in a longitudinal direction thereof. The feed conveyor may also be fashioned as a drag chain for feeding the material from one end of the mobile unit to the discharge end, with an arrangement being provided for breaking up the pile of material so as to facilitate the feeding thereof to the discharge conveyor.
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DMS, Inc.
Huppert Michael S.
Keenan James W.
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