Conveyors – chutes – skids – guides – and ways – Chutes – Unloading
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-23
2009-08-25
Deuble, Mark A (Department: 3651)
Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways
Chutes
Unloading
C366S068000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07578379
ABSTRACT:
A multi-section chute of a type suitable for directing mixed concrete compositions from a discharge end of a transit concrete mixer truck to a desired receiving location. The chute includes a plurality of elongate chute sections, each having a wall with a low friction concave inter-surface configuration and a convex outer configuration wherein each chute section includes a pair of longitudinal channel shapes along and integral to longitudinal edges of the wall and a central longitudinal rib, the channel shapes and the rib re-enforcing the chute section against longitudinal bending, and a fastening assembly for removably joining the plurality of chute sections together in a consecutive longitudinal arrangement and wherein the plurality of elongate chute sections further comprise cooperating nesting configurations that enable formation of a compact stable interconnecting nesting storage arrangement.
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International Search Report and Written Opinion dated Sep. 5, 2008.
Altounian George
Bailey Randy K.
Datema Bryan S.
Gillmore Benjamin J.
Deuble Mark A
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc.
Mersereau C. G.
Nikolai & Mersereau , P.A.
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