Feed mixer apparatus

Claim 1

A PORTABLE FEED MIXING APPARATUS FOR USE IN MIXING PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUCH AS GRAIN, FODDER AND THE LIKE, SAID APPARATUS INCLUDING A MOBILE FRAME, MIXING HOPPER MOUNTED IN VERTICALLY EXTENDING RELATION ON SAID FRAME AND HAVING AN UPSTANDING CONTINUOUS CLOSED PERIPHERAL WALL INCLUDING A DOWNWARDLY CONVERGING PORTION, A VERTICALLY DISPOSED MIXING AUGER ASSEMBLY CENTRALLY MOUNTED WITHIN SAID MIXING HOPPER, MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID MIXING AUGER ASSEMBLY TO CAUSE MIXING OF THE PARTICULATE MATERIAL WITHIN THE HOPPER, A CENTRALLY LOCATED REARWARDLY OPENING FEED OUTLET IN THE DOWNWARD EXTENDING PORTION OF THE MIXING HOPPER, ADJUSTABLE DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS INCLUDING A DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MECHANISM CONNECTED IN COMMUNICATING RELATION WITH SAID FEED OUTLET AND PROJECTING REARWARDLY THEREFROM, A PAIR OF ANGULARLY ADJUSTABLE AUGER SECTIONS EACH BEING COMPRISED OF A PAIR OF ANGULARLY CONNECTED LEG PORTIONS, ONE OF SAID AUGER SECTIONS HAVING A LEG PORTION THEREOF PIVOTALLY CONNECTED IN COMMUNICATING RELATION WITH SAID DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MECHANISM FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS LYING SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING VERTICAL CENTER LINE PLANE OF THE HOPPER, SAID LAST MENTIONED ADJUSTABLE AUGER SECTION HAVING ITS OTHER LEG PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO ONE LEG PORTION OF SAID OTHER ADJUSTABLE AUGER SECTION TO PERMIT RELATIVE SWINGING MOVEMENT OF THE LATTER ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED AXIS. THE ADJACENT LEG PORTION OF SAID ADJUSTABLE AUGER SECTION BEING OF A LENGTH TO PERMIT SELECTIVE POSITIONING OF THE OUTERMOST LEG PORTION OF SAID ADJUSTABLE AUGER SECTION ON EITHER SIDE OF AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SAID HOPPER AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF.