Patents Assigned to FB INDUSTRIES INC.
  • Patent number: 9975712
    Abstract: A portable drive-over conveyor is provided with a plurality of inlets and first and second conveyors so as to be arranged for simultaneously unloading multiple trucks side by side. Furthermore, the portable drive-over conveyor may be used in a system with another such drive-over conveyor in parallel to unload a truck having multiple discharges at each of the discharges by forming a bridge in between center structures of the drive-over conveyors allowing the truck to cross over the side by side drive-over conveyors and position the multiple discharges over the inlets of the side by side conveyors. Moreover, the second conveyor is swivably mountable on a frame of the drive-over conveyor such that particulate material is dischargeable at different locations angularly of a longitudinal axis of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FB Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Friesen
  • Patent number: 9580238
    Abstract: A storage tank defines a square hopper bottom converging to a bottom discharge located at one corner. The tank sits on a base frame defined by four vertical retractable legs with one leg at the discharge recessed inwardly from the corner. A discharge conveyor is mounted at the discharge for rotation about an upstanding axis at the discharge opening unimpeded by the recessed leg to move the conveyor from a retracted position along a side of the frame to an extended position at a selected angle outwardly from the frame. A horizontal platform and ladder is located at one side of the tank with the ladder being movable to a stored position parallel to the platform and both the ladder and the platform are movable to a stored position along the side of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: FB Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Friesen, Peter Friesen, Abram Friesen
  • Patent number: 8931996
    Abstract: A portable storage silo comprising a tank has a peripheral wall, a top wall and a bottom wall. There is provided a filling opening at or adjacent a top of the tank and a discharge opening at or adjacent a bottom of the tank. A support assembly for holding the tank with the bottom wall raised from the ground such that the discharge opening is raised for discharge into a receptacle at the ground. The support assembly includes a base for resting on the ground. The base including a plurality of arms connected to the base and located at spaced positions around the base. The discharge opening has an electrically actuated gate arrangement. The filling opening has an electrically actuated lid. The actuators at the discharge opening and the filling opening are solar powered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: FB Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Friesen, Hank Boschmann
  • Publication number: 20140093339
    Abstract: A portable storage silo comprising a tank has a peripheral wall, a top wall and a bottom wall. There is provided a filling opening at or adjacent a top of the tank and a discharge opening at or adjacent a bottom of the tank. A support assembly for holding the tank with the bottom wall raised from the ground such that the discharge opening is raised for discharge into a receptacle at the ground. The support assembly includes a base for resting on the ground. The base including a plurality of arms connected to the base and located at spaced positions around the base. The discharge opening has an electrically actuated gate arrangement. The filling opening has an electrically actuated lid. The actuators at the discharge opening and the filling opening are solar powered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: FB INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Henry Friesen, Hank Boschmann
  • Patent number: D819920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FB Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Friesen
  • Patent number: D824131
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: FB Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Friesen