Patents Assigned to Union Iron Works, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4347922
    Abstract: A grain distributor assembly for a grain elevator which includes a manifold plate having a plurality of discharge openings connected to respective downspouts. A distributor elbow having an inlet at its upper end coaxial with the central axis, and an offset outlet at its lower end, is arranged to discharge into any one of the discharge openings. Mounted below the elbow and swingable with it is a closure disc seated upon the manifold plate and having a single window therein providing passage for the lower end of the elbow. The remainder of the disc seats upon and closes off the inactive, non-registering ones of the discharge openings. A selector is provided for swinging the closure disc and elbow in unison about the central axis for positioning the elbow and window in angular register with a selected one of the discharge openings while maintaining all the other such openings securely covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Union Iron Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Curry, Richard C. Larson, Merle E. Clewett
  • Patent number: 4241823
    Abstract: A chain drag conveyor kit for converting a screw conveyor, of the type having a main trough with a semi-circular bottom and substantially flat cover, to a chain drag conveyor. The kit includes a pair of sprocket boxes dimensioned for assembly on the respective ends of the main trough and having mutually aligned sprockets therein including a drive sprocket. An endless drag chain is trained about the sprockets. The drag chain has conveyor flights secured at spaced intervals, the flights each having a semi-circular edge conforming to the bottom of the main trough and having a straight edge. A relatively shallow auxiliary trough of rectangularly U-shaped cross section is nested into the main trough, the auxiliary trough forming a return guide surface for the straight edges of the flights on the upper run of chain. A series of clamps along the edges of the cover hold the assembly together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: Union Iron Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Merle E. Clewett