Apparatus for weighing, mixing and delivering bulk fertilizer material

Claim 1

A CONVEYOR-MIXER FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS, COMPRISING STRUCTURE DEFINING AN ELONGATED HOUSING CONSISTING OF A HORIZONTAL SECTION AND AN INCLINED SECTION EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THEREFROM, THE UPPER PORTION OF AT LEAST SAID HORIZONTAL SECTION CONSISTING OF DIVERGING INCLINED WALLS FORMING AN INVERTED TROUGH FOR SPLITTING THE FLOW OF SAID GRANULAR MATERIAL DISCHARGED THEREON, THE LOWER PORTION OF EACH SAID SECTION CONSISTING OF DIVERGING INCLINED WALLS FORMING A TROUGH FOR RECOMBINING THE SPLIT FLOW OF SAID GRANULAR MATERIAL, WITH SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF SAID GRANULAR MATERIALS RECEIVED BY SAID LOWER PORTION BEING SPLIT BY SAID UPPER PORTION, AN ENDLESS CHAIN POSITIONED WITHIN SAID ELONGATED HOUSING AND JOURNALLED AT OPPOSITE ENDS THEREOF, A STRUCTURAL MEMBER POSITIONED WITHIN SAID ELONGATED HOUSING AND FORMING UPPER AND LOWER TRACKWAYS FOR SAID ENDLESS CHAIN, SAID ENDLESS CHAIN HAVING FINGERS EXTENDING LATERALLY THEREFROM, SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBER CONFORMING SAID ENDLESS CHAIN TO THE LONGITUDINAL SHAPE OF SAID ELONGATED HOUSING BY GUIDE MEANS ENGAGING SAID FINGERS AT THE ANGLE BETWEEN SAID HORIZONTAL AND INCLINED SECTIONS, AND BLADE ELEMENTS SPACED ALONG SAID ENDLESS CHAIN AND CONFORMING TO THE SHAPE OF THE TROUGH ALONG THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID ELONGATED HOUSING FOR CONVEYING SAID RECOMBINED GRANULAR MATERIAL THEREALONG.