Automatic folding and deploying deflectors for conveyor
AssigneeVermeer Manufacturing Company
InventorAaron Boese
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Abstract
A deflector for a mobile material separating machine includes a deflector body hingedly attached to a trommel screen frame and a conveyor movable with respect to the trommel screen frame. The conveyor has a stowed position and an operating position. The deflector system also includes an automatic linkage pivotably attached to the deflector body and to the conveyor. The linkage moves and guides the deflector body when the conveyor moves between the stowed position and the operating position.
Claims24
A deflecting system for a trommel screen comprising:
- a rotary trommel screen frame;
- a rotary trommel screen having an inlet end and an outlet end and being rotatably attached to the rotary trommel screen frame;
- a pair of deflectors hingedly attached to the rotary trommel screen frame and positioned at the outlet end of the rotary trommel screen;
- a conveyor pivotally attached to the rotary trommel screen frame and positioned adjacent the outlet end of the rotary trommel screen, the conveyor having a stowed position and an operating position;
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- a pair of automatic linkages each pivotably attached to both one deflector and the conveyor, wherein the linkages move the deflectors when the conveyor moves between the stowed position and the operating position,
- wherein the deflectors are configured to direct material exiting the outlet of the rotary trommel screen toward the conveyor when the conveyor is in the operating position.
A deflector system for a trommel screen comprising:
- a deflector body hingedly attached to a trommel screen frame;
- a conveyor movable with respect to the trommel screen frame, the conveyor having a stowed position and an operating position;
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- an automatic linkage pivotably attached to the deflector body and to the conveyor, wherein the linkage moves the deflector body when the conveyor moves between the stowed position and the operating position,
- wherein the deflector is configured to direct material exiting the outlet of the trommel screen toward the conveyor when the conveyor is in the operating position.
A deflector system comprising;
- a mobile material separator machine having a frame, the frame having a first frame member;
- a deflector body movably attached to the first frame member, the deflector body having a deployed position and a stowed position;
- a second frame member movable with respect to the first frame member, the second frame member having at least a stowed position, a first operating position, and a second operating position, wherein the deflector body is in stowed position when the second frame member is in the stowed position, and the deflector body is in the deployed position when the second frame member is in the first operating or second operating positions;
- wherein the deflector body is configured to deflect material in a direction toward the second frame member when in the deployed position;
- and an automatic extendable linkage pivotably attached to the deflector body and to the second frame member, wherein the extendable linkage has a first length when the second frame member is in the first operating position, and a second length when the second frame member is in the second operating position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.