Patents by Inventor Gene F. Cripe

Gene F. Cripe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4838443
    Abstract: A rectangular bin body having a top wall, front and back walls, side walls and bottom wall with an inlet opening in the top wall and a discharge opening in the front wall at the juncture of the front wall with the bottom wall and one of the side walls. The discharge opening is aligned with an internal corner of the bin at the juncture of the back and bottom walls with the one side wall so that when the bin is tipped upwardly about a generally horizontal axis located to one side of the bin and inclined with respect to the back the one side wall, the internal corner is located at an elevation below the remainder of the interior of the bin. In this position of the bin, the side walls, the back wall and the bottom wall function as a hopper to direct the bin contents to the internal corner so that the entire contents of the bin can be emptied by directing a suction tube inwardly of the bin straight through the discharge opening and into the internal corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Thomas Conveyor Company
    Inventors: Gene F. Cripe, Robert W. Luebbe, Andrew W. Snyder