Apparatus for preparing explosives

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND TREATING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING MEANS DEFINING AN ENCLOSED ROOM INCLUDING PARTITION WALL AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID ROOM, EACH SAID PARTITION WALLS HAVING AN OPENING THEREIN, DISPLACEABLE SHIELDING PLATES ON SAID PARTITION WALLS COVERING SAID OPENINGS, FIRST CONVEYOR MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH THE OPENING OF ONE PARTITION WALL, CONTAINER MEANS MOUNTED ON THE CONVEYOR MEANS AND ADAPTED FOR CONTAINING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, DRIVE MEANS FOR DRIVING THE CONVEYOR MEANS IN RECIPROCATION TO INTRODUCE THE CONTAINER MEANS INTO THE ROOM AND TO REMOVE THE CONTAINER MEANS FROM THE ROOM, MEANS COUPLING THE SHIELDING PLATES OF SAID ONE PARTIAND THE DRIVE MEANS TO OPEN SAID OPENING IN SAID ONE PARTITION WALL ONLY WHEN THE CONTAINER MEANS IS TO PASS THERETHROUGH, MEANS IN SAID ROOM FOR REMOVING THE EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL FROM SAID CONTAINER MEANS, A VIBRATING DRYING CONVEYOR POSITIONED ADJACENT THE LATTER MEANS FOR RECEIVING THE REMOVED EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL THEREFROM, THE EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL BEING ADVANCED ALONG THE DRYING CONVEYOR BY THE VIBRATION THEREOF, MEANS FOR HEATING THE DRYING CONVEYOR TO DRY THE EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL THEREON, WEIGHING MEANS ADJACENT THE DRYING CONVEYOR TO CONTINUOUSLY RECEIVE DRIED EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL THEREFROM AND TO ACCUMULATE AND DISCHARGE A PRESCRIBED QUANTITY OF MATERIAL, DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS EXTENDING THROUGH THE OPENING