Abstract: A system for operating hopper doors 14, 16 in a bulk transport vehicle comprises linkages 34, 36, 38, 40 forming an over-center locking arrangement and separate opening and closing trip levers 24, 50 attached to an operating shaft 30. The trip levers 24, 50 are operated by engaging associated cams 28, 54 as the vehicle is moved relative thereto. The cams 28, 54 are inactivated by being rotated, translated or lowered out of the path of the trip levers to a position where they do not trigger the operation of the doors 14, 16. A single door or pair of doors may be operated at the same time. To prevent false triggering of the door mechanism in transit, a secondary lock can be provided where a spring or counterweight is used to bias a lever which restrains a governor. The governor moves between stops which determine the angular positions corresponding to the door(s) 14, 16 being opened or closed.

Abstract: A cart for transporting grain and the like and unloading the grain using an auger system. The system has two augers, a lower auger that elevates the grain from the cart's grain storage hopper and deposits it into an upper auger that carries the grain out and away from the cart for discharge at the desired place. Each auger is independently driven by a hydraulic motor. The upper auger can be swung through a wide arc thereby allowing the grain to be discharged to almost any unloading position without moving the cart. Because the upper auger is independent, the arc through which it is swung is at a relatively low angle from the horizontal and the grain therefore can be discharged a greater distance from the cart. Also, the upper auger can be swung to a position alongside the hopper for over-the-road transport of the cart.

Abstract: A dump truck having an endless-conveyor structurally integrated into the bottom of the dump body, a conveyor hood opening in the tailgate of the dump body in longitudinal alignment with the conveyor and a conveyor hood mounted within the conveyor hood opening for being shifted between a forward extended position thereof covering the rear end of the conveyor and a rearward retracted position thereof generally flush with the inner face of the tailgate to facilitate use of the truck for open truck hauling with the tailgate in a flat open position extending rearwardly from the bottom of the dump body.

Abstract: A pipe hauling trailer is described for hauling and dispensing individual sections of elongated pipe for joining in end-to-end relation to form a pipeline. The trailer also includes structure for mounting pipe section end joining machinery, so the pipeline may be assembled directly from the trailer. The trailer includes racks for supporting the stack of pipe sections. Escapement cams are positioned at a bottom corner of the rack and are manually movable to engage individual pipe sections from the bottom of the stack, and to deliver the individual pipe sections to a dispensing station, where the pipe sections are supported by rollers for longitudinal movement rearward of the frame. A movable support is provided for a conventional pipe end joining machine on the trailer frame, so the successive pipe sections moving longitudinally from the frame may be joined end to end, thereby forming the pipeline directly from the present trailer.

Abstract: A dump trailer for the transportation of containers including a frameless trailer frame to receive and hold a rail transportable container for overland transport. A support system engageable on a fifth wheel of a tractor having a telescopically extensible hoist assembly and interconnected draft arms contains support and locking flanges to secure the container to the trailer and a pair of container contents transport guides extending over the trailer's frame to its free end during dumping.

Abstract: A wagon for transporting grain and other particulate matter. The wagon is adapted to be attached to a tow vehicle. The wagon has a container which is provided with a forward wall. Within the container is a conduit. The conduit has a part which protrudes outwardly from the container and forwardly from the forward wall. Within the conduit is an auger. Pivotally attached to the part of the conduit which extends outwardly from the forward wall is a conduit extension member. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position extending from the forward wall. Within the conduit extension member is an auger extension member. The auger extension member is operatively connected to the auger when the conduit extension member extends from the forward wall. Thus, a condition is established for discharging grain from the container of the wagon. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position closely adjacent the forward wall.

Abstract: A mobile basket for accumulating and transporting hay bales includes a container mounted on wheels. The container has a pair of side walls which are spaced from each other and the spacing is greater at the rear of the container than at the front thereof. A rear wall of the container is hinged at its top and opens by gravity to discharge the bales from the container. A chute is also provided at the front of the container to receive hay bales directly from a hay baler and discharge them to the container. The rear wall may be opened and shut remotely, and a plurality of the containers may be readily nested with relation to each other for shipment.

Abstract: An improved lower rear transfer brace member for a rear loading compactor type refuse truck body having a continuous lower rear transfer brace member, the truck body being designed to be accommodated on a truck chassis having a pair of spaced, substantially parallel longitudinal main chassis members which abut the continuous transfer brace substantially at right angles therewith and spacing the tailgate from the rear wheels is disclosed which accommodates the ends of the spaced longitudinal main chassis members without loss of continuity to thereby, in effect, move the relative position of the rear wheels back and allow the tailgate to be mounted closer to the rear wheels.

Abstract: A self-unloading load hauling box for use on a towed carriage or carried by a powered mobile vehicle wherein the box is a rigid unit having a bottom wall with a floor plate and side walls and front end wall projecting up from the rigid bottom wall. An endless belt is looped around the bottom wall and runs on a driven roller at the rear end and an idler roller at the front end of the box. The endless belt is driven through an arc of selected length at spaced apart intervals to unload contents from the box. The jerky action from intermittently driving the belt has a tendency to cause a vibration, loosening the content in the box and thus results in a relatively even discharge during unloading. Between the upper run of the endless belt and the upper surface of the floor is a friction reducing pad which also absorbs shock loads tending to reduce damage to the belt and/or floor when loading heavy chunk material.

Abstract: A two-wheeled grain cart adapted for pulling by a tractor includes a downwardly tapered lower hopper section with a discharge aperture and a hydraulically controlled, sliding access door. A conveyer having a first inlet end and a second discharge end is coupled to an outer side of the grain cart and is movable between a generally horizontal transport/storage position and an upright use position through the use of a hydraulic cylinder. When in the use position, the open inlet end of the conveyer is aligned with and disposed over the hopper discharge aperture for receiving grain under gravity feed and displacing the grain via a chain driven, paddle-type conveyer to its second discharge end for off-loading. A lower end of the conveyer is coupled via a sprocket drive arrangement to a shaft coupled to a tractor's power take-off (PTO) unit for driving the chain and paddle combination.

Abstract: A wagon for transporting grain and other particulate matter. The wagon is adapted to be attached to a tow vehicle. The wagon has a container which is provided with a forward wall. Within the container is a conduit. The conduit has a part which protrudes outwardly from the container and forwardly from the forward wall. Within the conduit is an auger. Pivotally attached to the part of the conduit which extends outwardly from the forward wall is a conduit extension member. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position extending from the forward wall. Within the conduit extension member is an auger extension member. The auger extension member is operatively connected to the auger when the conduit extension member extends from the forward wall. Thus, a condition is established for discharging grain from the container of the wagon. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position closely adjacent the forward wall.

Abstract: A wagon for transporting grain and other particulate matter. The wagon is adapted to be attached to a tow vehicle. The wagon has a container which is provided with a forward wall. Within the container is a conduit. The conduit has a part which protrudes outwardly from the container and forwardly from the forward wall. Within the conduit is an auger. Pivotally attached to the part of the conduit which extends outwardly from the forward wall is a conduit extension member. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position extending from the forward wall. Within the conduit extension member is an auger extension member. The auger extension member is operatively connected to the auger when the conduit extension member extends from the forward wall. Thus, a condition is established for discharging grain from the container of the wagon. The conduit extension member is pivotally movable to a position closely adjacent the forward wall.

Abstract: The invention provides a self-propelled fully operational loose bulk material slinger in a vehicle equipped to be driven. A slinger and hopper is mounted on a chassis supported by a triangular arrangement of road wheels. Individual powering of two road wheels, one on each side of the chassis, allows self-powered mobility and the road wheels can be steered for directional release of a material being stockpiled. A third small road wheel attached to swivel, balances the vehicle and can be retracted and extended to angle the vehicle for increasing and decreasing trajectory height of material being stockpiled. An engine and a hydraulic system provides mobility and mechanical adjustability to the vehicle. A stand-on control station allows the slinger vehicle according to the invention to be fully controlled by a single operator.

Abstract: A unit train consisting of a plurality of hopper cars and a multi-purpose trailer car. The hoppers cars have one or more hoppers each having a bottom discharge opening and a controllable gate. An endless belt conveyor traverses the length of the train including a portion of the trailer car, and underlies the hopper discharge gates so that the hoppers may be emptied sequentially onto the train conveyor to unload the entire train. The trailer car includes a lift portion of the train conveyor to elevate the material for discharge onto a transfer conveyor carried on the trailer car. The elongated transfer conveyor is pivotally mounted at the receiving end to be swung laterally to discharge the material received from the train conveyor at some selected point relative to the trailer car. The trailer car may include the power systems and control systems for operating the conveyors and the hopper gates.

Abstract: A portable, self-unloading cart (12) for handling granular material is disclosed, which cart (12) has a fixed, single auger tube (63) with a recessed end (68) connected to a hopper (22) for drawing material from below the hopper sump (23), and with a modified frame (24) providing for the remainder of the auger tube (63) extending both forwardly and sidewardly of the hopper (22) in an angular relation with the hopper (22), and with the auger tube (63) having pivoted sections enabling an upper section (69) in use to be extended rearwardly alongside the hopper (22) during transport, the discharge end (73) remaining disposed within the confines of the hopper and frame length.

Abstract: A bale handling system which avoids the necessity of using a thrower mechanism. A loading chute guides the bales from the baler to the hay basket. The chute guides the bales of hay up and into the hay basket without any mechanical assistance being provided aside from the force of the baler ejecting additional bales of hay. The chute reliably guides the bales of hay to the hay basket even when the baler is turning at sharp angles or is in rough ground.

Abstract: An unloading flap of a stationary or mobile silo for pourable particulate material having at least one outlet opening comprises an upper part that is secured to a first silo wall and a lower part that hinges on the upper part and can be tilted into the open and closed positions by means of an actuating rod that can be power driven.The lower edge of the straight or angled lower part with respect to the upper part is in the form of a projecting support. In the closed position this support rests along a line or area on a longitudinal groove in the region of the lower edge of a second silo wall. A device attached to one of the two parts of the flap exercises a moment of rotation on the other part of the flap such that the angle (.alpha.) between the upper and lower parts is reduced to an angle (.alpha.

Abstract: A cylindrical bale forming machine has a bale transfer unit yieldably maintained in a transport or rest horizontal position located below the bale discharge gate to receive a bale discharged from the machine for transfer to a ground location rearwardly clear of the discharge gate. The transfer unit is operated in response to the movement of the discharge gate into its open or bale discharge position and is returned to its rest position in response to movement of the discharge gate out of the open position therefor.

Abstract: A rotatable conveyor apparatus for selectively discharging bulk material in any direction from the hopper of a belly-dump trailer is operatively supported in horizontal cantilever fashion by a rotatable material feed joint located beneath the hopper for rotation about a generally vertical axis. The conveyor and feed joint assembly are rigidly attached to and supported by an elongate, vertically oriented rotary shaft which is journaled in widely-spaced bearings which are positionally fixed by a rigid framework within the hopper of the trailer. The rigidly connected shaft, feed joint, and conveyor are operatively carried by the vehicle and may be rotated in unison to discharge the load to either side of the trailer without operatively disconnecting the conveyor from the trailer.

Abstract: An apparatus for discharging material from the tail gate of a truck box comprises a first auger mounted on the tail gate. A second auger can be coupled to the first and is movable between a stored position and a position extending from one side of the truck by a pivot arrangement between the two augers. A third auger arrangement can replace the second auger and is movable between a first stored travelling position to a second working position providing an alternative path for the material by which the material can be discharged from a high point. Details of the couplings between the folded portions of the augers are disclosed.

Abstract: There is disclosed a mobile cargo container for transporting fluid-like materials such as cannery waste. The cargo container includes a floor conveyor extending rearward of and beyond the container bottom for discharging materials from the container through a rear discharge outlet. A trailer door is connected to the container to pivot between an open position wherein the door is above the discharge outlet, and a closed position wherein the door seals the container in a fluid tight fit. The discharge outlet is defined by side walls of the trailer which are angled downwardly in a rearward direction from the top of the container to a point wherein the side walls project downwardly in a forward direction to meet with a bottom portion of the container.

Abstract: A wagon for hauling earth, ore, and like materials is connected to a tractor by a gooseneck. The front wall of the wagon comprises an ejector and hydraulic cylinder-piston devices are secured substantially centrally of the wall and to the gooseneck for effecting ejection. A power-operated tail gate at the rear of the wagon secures an overlying mud gate in closed position for travel.

Abstract: An auger wagon of a type used in the transport of grain wherein the wagon has a grain box with inwardly sloping sides supported on a wheel mounted frame. A vertical auger is pivotally mounted at the center of the box floor and may be pivoted into a position for dispensing grain from any side of the grain box. A rotating head chute at the top of the auger allows grain to be directed toward the interior of the box. A grain cover operated by an external handle controls the inflow of grain at the auger base. A sliding door positioned on the lower portion of one of the grain box walls allows the auger wagon to function as a gravity box with or without the auger. The auger wagon functions as a gravity flow box, an auger wagon and a mixer wagon.

Abstract: A wheel-supported, fluid-tight, top filling, rear discharge cargo box having a door pivotally supported in suspension for closing the rear discharge opening, a hydraulically actuated latching mechanism for controlling the operation of the door and a drag chain totally confined within the cargo box characterized by a pair of horizontally spaced, endless chain members disposed in horizontally spaced vertical planes and a discontinuous series of drag bars extended between the lower runs of the chain members for the drag chain defining a load receiving opening between the opposite ends of the series for facilitating a top-loading of the cargo box.

Abstract: A dump spreader achieves both slow speed spreading and high speed dumping of material from truck body 10 having a bottom conveyor 11 and hopper-shaped side walls. A fixed rear wall 12 secured to the side walls closes the rear end of the body above the conveyor, and the rear wall has a bottom opening 13 approximately the width of the conveyor and extending from the conveyor upward to one-half to three-quarters of the height of the rear wall. A vertically movable door 20 supported on the rear wall opens and closes the opening; and a hydraulic system raises and lowers the door to set the door at a desired low level above the conveyor for spreading, to raise the door fully so the conveyor can move a substantial depth of material rapidly through the opening for dumping, and to close the door through a depth of material on the conveyor after a partial dump.

Abstract: The specification describes a beet harvesting machine having apparatus for digging the beets and apparatus for elevating them either to a truck or to a holding tank in which the holding tank is provided with a horizontal conveyor for discharging the beets from the holding tank and with a downwardly and inwardly sloping front wall which terminates short of the horizontal conveyor and the bottom portion of which is hinged on a horizontal axis so that it can be swung to a vertical position to minimize the opening between the front wall and the horizontal conveyor or to a forward extended position to maximize the opening between the front wall and the horizontal conveyor.

Abstract: A forage wagon includes an interior storage area having a rear access opening. An endless belt conveyor assembly is carried within the interior storage area and includes a rear drive gear mechanism mounted along the rear access opening. The forage wagon further includes an access door hingedly mounted on the rear access opening and movable between an open and closed position. The access door includes an inside surface area facing toward the interior storage area, an outside surface area facing away from the interior storage area and an integral baffle assembly attached to the inside surface area and adapted to enclose the rear drive gear mechanism when the access door is in the closed position.