Material or article handling – Self-loading or unloading vehicles – Separable load rack
Patent
1992-05-29
1994-03-01
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Self-loading or unloading vehicles
Separable load rack
220 15, 414608, B60P 164
Patent
active
052901394
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight, small portable hopper for bulk materials that is removably mountable on a tractor trailer is disclosed. Such trailer includes a trailer bed that is formed with a central opening, and the hopper is usable on it while also leaving space for transporting other items. The hopper includes an upright body with an inner surface that includes plural regions defining a bulk-material storage space. The body also includes a generally downwardly converging section that is supportably positionable on the trailer bed through the central opening, with a subsection terminating with a dispensing port. Also included is internal bracing structure attached to generally opposing regions of the inner surface of the body, and extending across the bulk-material storage space to promote self-supportability of the hopper when it is loaded. The internal bracing structure may include plural, laterally spaced, horizontally-positioned first braces attached to corresponding, generally opposing regions of the inner surface. Also, the internal bracing structure may include plural, laterally spaced, upwardly extending, opposing pairs of second braces that are attached to internal, upwardly extending surfaces of the body, with desired pairs being interconnected by a corresponding first brace. Also disclosed is stop structure positioned across the bulk-material storage space to block a bulk-material loader bucket from extending down and in through the open top of the body and against the inner surface of the hopper while loading bulk material into it. The hopper has an open top and a tarp rack for holding a tarp that is positionable over the top to protect the load from inclement weather conditions.
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Bucci David A.
Hedrick Concrete Products Corp.
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