Improvements in or relating to vehicles for carrying material in bulk

Abstract

Abstract 1,007,366. Unloading bulk granular material from vehicles. ATKINSONS OF CLITHEROE Ltd. July 8, 1964 [July 19, 1963], No. 28642/63. Heading B8E. [Also in Division G1] Granular material is moved to the rear of a vehicle 10, Fig. 1, by an endless belt conveyer where it is either bagged and weighed by a device 13, fed on to an endless conveyer 20, Fig. 4, or fed to a pneumatic conveyer 29. The conveyer in the floor of the vehicle is hydraulically driven either by the vehicle's engine or a subsidiary engine. Bags 14, Fig. 1, are suspended from a cradle 15 which is raised and lowered by hydraulically operated arms 18. An interlock ensures that the bags are not raised until they contain a certain minimum amount of material. The lifting means incorporates a bag counter, preferably electrical. The conveyer 20, Fig. 4, is normally stowed on the vehicle and is pivotably supported in use by a cable 21 and arms 22, 24. An electrically driven winch 26 raises and lowers the conveyer. The latter is hydraulically driven and may be slewed through 180 degrees. For pneumatic delivery pipes may be coupled to one or both sides of a reversible rotary seal 29.

Inventors

• 👤 Richard Leslie Atkinson

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