Patents Assigned to Taylors Engineering (Blenheim) Limited
  • Receival hopper
    Patent number: 5961002
    Abstract: A receival hopper for delicate and fragmentary particulate material such as fruit berries or bark pieces, in which the hopper (2) includes a support frame (5) with a receiving bin (3) pivotally secured to the frame (5) and an auger (4) which includes an auger screw (8), extending along a peripheral lip of the receiving bin at or adjacent the pivot, with a pair of adjacent but spaced hydraulic rams (6) secured between the bin and the support frame for moving the bin between lowered and raised positions relative to the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Taylors Engineering (Blenheim) Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey James Wolfe Taylor, Wayne Matthew Taylor