Material or article handling – Static receptacle and means for charging or discharging – or... – Nongravity discharging means
Patent
1979-04-30
1982-05-11
Saifer, Robert W.
Material or article handling
Static receptacle and means for charging or discharging, or...
Nongravity discharging means
414320, 406114, B65G 6538
Patent
active
043291058
ABSTRACT:
A top unloading silo unloader pendantly supported in a tower silo. The unloader has a material collector moved around the silo with drive structure. An impeller receives material from the collector and throws the material into an out chute which directs the material to a doorway leading to an upright passageway. The drive structure mounted on the outer end of the collector has leading and trailing drive wheels connected with movable mounts to a leveling apparatus. Power is applied to both wheels by separate drive shafts connected to the power transmission for the augers of the collector. The leveling apparatus has a base secured to the collector. Supports pivotally mounted on opposite ends of the base are attached to the mounts for the wheels. A linear actuator connected to the supports operates to concurrently pivot the supports in opposite directions so that the outer end of the collector can be raised or lowered and held in a selected position. A lost motion connector attaches the linear actuator to one support to allow the linear actuator to have limited contraction without raising the drive wheels. The linear actuator has a reversible electric motor coupled to a motor controller. A generally horizontal reference arm attached to a non-pivoting part of the unloader is linked to the controller so that movement of the collector up or down actuates the controller whereby the motor operates the linear actuator to increase its overall length to raise the outer end of the collector or to decrease its overall length to lower the outer end of the collector thereby maintaining the outer end of the collector at a selected position.
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Anderson Clifton W.
Buschbom Floyd E.
Hansen Glen D.
Paulson Jerome T.
Bartz Richard O.
Burd L. Paul
Gutenkauf Robert W.
Saifer Robert W.
Veda, Inc.
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