Grain cleaner for auger-equipped elevators

Claim 1

A self-contained readily applicable and removable grain cleaning attachment for an elongated tubular auger-equipped grain housing having a bottom side with a discharge slot for weed seeds and extraneous matter, said attachment comprising: an elongated shallow open top box-like trapping and disposal trough embodying a bottom wall marginally surrounded by united upstanding longitudinal side walls and transverse end walls interconnecting said side walls, said bottom wall being provided at one end of the receptacle portion of the trough with a depending integral open-ended neck providing a discharge spout, said side walls having free upper lengthwise edges provided with complemental outwardly flaring lip-like adapter flanges, said flanges being commensurate in length with the length of said side walls and constructed and arranged to abut and firmly contact surface portions of the aforementioned housing along opposite lengthwise edges of said slot, the upper edges of said end walls being arcuately notched and constructed and arranged to conformingly embrace coacting exterior surface portions of the housing, a plurality of longitudinally spaced transverse adapter brackets having ends thereof fixed to interior surfaces of said side walls and located and confined in said receptacle portion and spaced above said bottom wall and constituting screen seating and supporting brackets, a manually insertable and removable channelshaped open ended screen having a convex bottom portion cooperatively fitted into said receptacle portion and perched and removably seated on the respectively cooperable brackets and oriented and positioned by said brackets, and means for suspending and retentively attaching said trough to the aforementioned housing.