Abstract: A portable low-profile tipper for dumping the contents from a trailer containing a dumpable material, includes a towable elongated and angled frame having a portion resting on the ground during dumping for greater stability. A deck is pivotally attached at an elevated position to the frame back end. The deck has a backstop for positioning the trailer during dumping. Actuators raise and lower the deck to dump the trailer contents. The tipper has a chute with fixed and pivoting components cooperating to guide the dumpable material from the trailer past the frame back end. Front and back stabilizers extend outwardly from the frame. The front stabilizers lift and lower the frame front end between a low-profile dumping position and a raised towing position. A method of successively removing the contents from a plurality of trailers using the tipper is also provided.

Abstract: An improved tractor-trailer assembly utilizes a trailer bottom wall having a drop center portion which is located rearwardly of the longitudinal midpoint of the trailer. The bottom wall of the cargo container is attached to and suspended from the upper edges of the sidewalls of the trailer. In one form of the invention, the bottom wall has a rectangular cross-sectional configuration, and in another form of the invention, the bottom wall has an arcuate U-shaped cross-sectional configuration.

Abstract: A conventional bottom dump truck includes doors which in a closed position are suspended underneath the bottom opening of the hopper of the trailer. The doors are opened outwardly and upwardly by pivotal action about an upper suspension point of each of the doors. The amount of movement of the door is limited by an abutment member mounted upon a vertical flange on the outside surface of the hopper bottom. The abutment member includes an abutment plate extending outwardly from the flange together with a bracket which has a slot slidable along the length of the flange and locatable at different points along the length of the flange by a pin passing through openings in the bracket and one of a plurality of openings in the flange. An elongate triangular body can be positioned between the doors during operation at minimum spacing so as to increase the angle of the surface of the doors beyond the angle of repose of the material to ensure complete discharge without hang up of the material on the doors.

Abstract: A dumper for use in dumping the contents of a container. The dumper includes a hollow receiving portion for receiving therein at least an upper end of the container and an outlet portion for guiding contents emanating from the container to a desired location. A mechanism for effecting a relative movement between the receiving portion and the upper end of the container and an orientation of the receiving portion onto the upper end of the container is provided. An inflatable bladder mechanism is mounted on an inwardly facing surface of the receiving portion and oriented to engage a peripheral side surface of the container, when inflated, with sufficient force to clamp and hold the container to the receiving portion. A tipping mechanism is also provided for tipping the receiving portion and the container in unison only when the bladder is inflated.

Abstract: A cement mixer truck that has an extendable chute assembly that permits extending one, two or more chute sections for discharge of concrete at a location remote from the mixer. The chute section is easily telescopic, can be locked in either the retracted or extended positions, and can be swiveled about a vertical axis. Further, for storage, the chutes will fold up automatically when at a proper position to engage an actuator to cause the chutes to fold. The truck shown is a front discharge mixer truck that can be adjusted in vertical height at a job site to permit a greater slope to the chutes and is available with a restricted height truck.

Abstract: An adjustable high discharge stub chute is mounted on a concrete hauling and discharge vehicle to allow discharge into a hopper or the like which is too high for access by the conventional discharge chute. The high discharge stub chute is hydraulically operated to provide a range of selected discharge positions and a lower inoperative storage position, the latter position being one in which the stub chute is completely out of the path of a conventional discharge chute of the swing-away type.

Abstract: A material handling system includes a hopper assembly for mounting on a vehicle bed. The hopper assembly has a rear leg for mounting on a rear end wall of the vehicle bed and a side leg for mounting on a sidewall of the vehicle bed. The hopper legs intersect at a corner which can be mounted adjacent to a rear corner of a vehicle bed. The hopper assembly includes an interior with a lowest point in the hopper assembly corner. A conveyor assembly includes a proximate end received in the hopper side leg and extending to the hopper corner. The conveyor assembly can be adjustably mounted on the vehicle bed sidewall for discharging material to various locations alongside the vehicle.

Abstract: A trailer (10) constructed in conformance with European specification has three wheeled rear axles (56, 58, 60) and is adapted for the gravity unloading of a container (18) loaded with particulate lading. A container support frame (20) is pivotally connected about a horizontal axis (86) positioned between the rearmost axle (60) and intermediate axle (58) and is raised by hydraulic cylinder (92) at an unloading site as shown in FIGS. 5 and 9 for the gravity unloading of the particulate lading into a hopper (100) positioned rearwardly of the rearmost axle (60) on a rear overhanging trailer portion (72). A rotary valve (116) in the hopper feeds the particulate lading into a high velocity air stream in a lower pneumatic hopper portion (120) for pneumatic discharge.

Abstract: A portable low-profile tipper for dumping the contents from a trailer containing a dumpable material, includes a towable elongated frame having a back end with a deck pivotally attached thereto. The deck has a backstop for positioning the trailer during dumping. Actuators raise and lower the deck between a lowered position adjacent the frame and a raised position for dumping the trailer contents. The tipper includes a chute having fixed and pivoting components which cooperate to guide the dumpable material from a back opening of the trailer past the frame back end. The tipper frame has outwardly extending front and back stabilizers. The front stabilizers lift and lower a front end of the frame between a low-profile dumping position for receiving the trailer and a raised towing position for hitching and towing the tipper between dumping locations. A method of successively removing the contents from a plurality of trailers using the tipper is also provided.

Abstract: A truck body has at least one vertical, longitudinal divider forming two compartments. Separate chutes are located on the top of the body, one communicating with each compartment so that one particular type of refuse (e.g., paper, aluminum cans and glass) may be dumped into a specific chute to fall by gravity into a compartment. The body may be tilted to shift all refuse to the rear. Each type refuse is discharged through a separate door at the rear. Bins are lifted vertically by hydraulic means to the top of the body and then tilted to dump into chutes. The bins are tucked under the body during transportation to reduce overall width. Further, the bins fan outward to facilitate loading. Wheeled carts filled with refuse may be hooked to the upper edges of the bins so that the carts and bins may be tilted at the upper end of their travel to dump into the chutes.

Abstract: An unloading spout for grain trucks includes two spout wings each hinged to the rear wall of a grain truck on opposite sides of its unloading port, and two spout floors each hinged on outward edges to a bottom edge of one of the wings. The loading spout is held in operable position by bolting overlapping inward edges of the floors to each other. When not in use, the grain spout is stowed by unbolting the floors, folding them into parallel relation to the wings, and folding the wings into parallel relation with the truck wall. The wings and floors are then fastened to the truck wall in stowed condition.

Abstract: A safety brake is provided for a cement truck chute to immobilize the chute from lateral movement relative to the cement truck chassis. Movement of the cement truck chute is controlled by a ram which is secured to a vertically oriented ram pivot axle rotatably mounted in a sleeve secured to the truck chassis. A first horizontal brake pad is located concentrically about the ram pivot axle and is immobilized relative to the chassis. The safety brake includes a pneumatic actuator having a housing and a plunger actuable for reciprocal movement relative to the housing. A flat, horizontal ram coupling plate is rigidly secured to the ram pivot axle and holds the pneumatic actuator housing at a spaced elevation thereabove with the pneumatic actuator plunger coaxially aligned with the ram pivot axle. A horizontal intermediate plate is located between the ram coupling plate and the pneumatic actuator housing and is secured to the pneumatic actuator plunger.

Abstract: Discharge of fluid and debris onto a roadway from between the closure member and the rear of a truck body is eliminated by the use of a collection trough mounted beneath the rear of the truck body and a pivotally mounted slide member which can be selectively positioned to cover the trough while functioning as an asphalt slide or to act as a retaining wall to deflect and retain water and debris within the trough.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a bagging device for directing a flowable substance from a transport trailer to a flexible agricultural bag. The device includes a tunnel housing attached to the back of the trailer. The open end of the bag is held behind a ridge member and between the ridge member and a stretchable strap so as to resist release of bag until the bag on the ground has been filled. A tray beneath the housing supports the bottom portion of the bag to prevent it from stretching and ripping. A shield near the tires of the trailer prevent the bag from entangling in the tires. The device is especially appropriate for use with flowable commodities such as brewers grains and stillage by-product which rapidly deteriorate unless promptly stored in an air exchange-free enclosure.

Abstract: A rear dump truck for transporting particulate material and simultaneously discharging and sieving the material. The rear dump truck includes a load box divided into a front section and a rear section by a partition dump door. The front section of the box forms a load chamber space for carrying the particulate material and the rear section forms a load chamber space including wire sieves for sieving purposes. To adjust the flow rate of the particulate material passing from the front section into the rear section through below the partition dump door upon the tilting up of the box, a stopper which is tiltable by a hydraulic jack is positioned just before the partition dump door. The particulate material is supplied in a suitable amount at a given time through the adjustment of the tilting of the stopper and passes onto the wire sieves. The material is sieved and the sieved particles are discharged through rear dump doors according to the particle sizes.

Abstract: A selectively extendable chute assembly includes a fabric chute covering member having a plurality of extender tubes secured thereto. A coil spring is secured inside each extender tube to continuously urge the extender tube into a retracted position. Pressurized fluid is selectively provided to the extender tubes to urge them into an extended position whereby the chute becomes usable for unloading a vehicle or another type of storage facility.

Abstract: The self-propelled load carrying vehicle includes a vehicle framework supported by road wheels, and railroad wheels are mounted on the framework and are movable up and down with respect to the framework for supporting the vehicle from the railroad track. The rear road wheels propel the vehicle along the track. A sub-frame is rotatably mounted on the vehicle framework about an upwardly extending axis, and dump body is pivotally mounted on the sub-frame about an approximately horizontal axis. A conveyor is mounted to the rear end of the sub-frame and rotates with the sub-frame and dump body and receives the load from the dump body when the dump body is tilted and progressively urges the load on beyond the rear opening of the dump body.

Abstract: A device attachable upon a dump truck bed for dividing a load being dumped. The device including a unit that is shaped like two adjacent sides of a pyramid, and an anchoring means along a lower edge of the two sides for securement near a rear end of the truck bed in a position so that the two walls spread apart rearwardly prow-like from a forward connected edges.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for unloading melamine powder from a bulk shipping or transporting containers. The apparatus is comprised of a uniquely designed portable hopper or discharge chute provided at its discharge end with a rotary pump that is removably attachable to a tiltable bulk container. The process of unloading the bulk container involves the creating of a particular shaped flow from the bulk container so that bridging and other flow problems associated with flowing melamine powder does not occur.

Abstract: An inclination maintaining system for a discharge chute of a ready-mix concrete truck or the like including a body on which the chute is pivotally mounted for movement about an axis extending horizontally and transversely of the chute, the system having sensors mounted on the chute for sensing inclination thereof relative to the horizontal about the axis, an extensible and contractible member interconnecting the body and the chute in attitude controlling relation to the chute, and control elements responsive to the sensors for extending and contracting the member so as to maintain the chute at the inclination.

Abstract: A transport container on a truck or a trailer may be lifted by means of two pivot arms operated by hydraulic jacks. The container is rotated in response to the lifting movement and in the final emptying position, the center of gravity of the container is still vertically inside the track of the wheels of the truck or trailer.

Abstract: A windrow pickup attachment for asphalt pavement laying apparatus provided with a feed hopper for receiving soft asphalt aggregate laid in a windrow in front of the apparatus. The attachment comprises an upwardly inclined chute hinged to a low lying hopper front wall and a flight conveyor overlying both chute and hopper. The flight conveyor is hinged to a relatively elevated hopper back wall. Skids support the lower forward end of the chute on the pavement. A chute conveyor support supports the lower forward end of the chute conveyor on the chute. Drive mechanism pivotally attached to the forward portion of the chute reciprocates the same, and hence the chute conveyor resting thereon, between lowered working and raised transport positions.

Abstract: A dump trailer or cart is disclosed suitable for use in a low clearance environment such as an orchard. The cart includes ground support members and a bin useful in a first clearance position to receive material and in a second, elevated position to dump material. Means are provided to lift the bin and means are included to tilt the bin to the second position for dumping the bin into a relatively high-sided container positioned adjacent the cart and laterally spaced therefrom in a manner avoiding instability of the cart. The bin includes a chute that is extensible from the bin side for guiding material into the container at a position past the ground support members and that is retracted during all other times.

Abstract: A concrete transporting and placing vehicle wherein the frame of the material receiving body is slidably seated on a sub-frame that is fixed to the chassis of a truck, for movement by a hydraulic cylinder, about a fixed vertical axis, either to the left or the right, from a centered transport position aligned with the truck chassis to a diagonal discharge position in which the material discharge mouth at the rear of the body is at one side or the other of the vehicle; depending upon whether the body frame was shifted to the left or the right; and wherein upon return of the body frame to its transport position, a locking pin automatically engages to releasably hold the body frame in its transport position, the locking pin being automatically retracted to release the body frame for movement from its transport position, concomitantly with pressurization of the cylinder to effect such movement.

Abstract: A feed box includes a chamber defined by oppositely positioned downwardly and inwardly sloping end walls, a vertical side wall and a bottom wall extending downwardly and laterally across said box to the vertical side wall. The vertical side wall may have a slight laterally inward slope to it. A discharge opening is provided in the bottom wall adjacent the vertical side wall and a spout is positioned under the bottom wall opening to direct material flowing from the chamber back towards the longitudinal centerline of the box. The vertical side wall also includes a discharge opening at its lower end and a spout is provided to receive material from the box chamber for directing it laterally away from the box in the opposite direction from the spout associated with the bottom wall opening. Closure gates are provided for each of the discharge openings in the bottom wall and side wall.