Slurry handling apparatus
AssigneeCDE Global Limited
InventorsAlex Humphrey, Darren Eastwood
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Abstract
A slurry handling apparatus includes at least one reception hopper includes a base, a rear wall and opposing side walls, and an opening provided in the base. Slurry delivered into the reception hopper from a tanker can pass through the opening in the base, and a respective first dewatering screen having an apertured screening deck is located beneath the at least one reception hopper so that slurry passing through the opening is delivered onto the deck of the respective screen, with undersize material and water passing through the apertures of the deck to be received within a sump, and with oversize material passing over the deck to be discharged from a downstream end of the deck.
Claims27
A slurry handling apparatus comprising:
- at least one reception hopper adapted to receive slurry from a hydrovac tanker, said reception hopper comprising:
- a base defining an opening, wherein slurry delivered into said reception hopper from the hydrovac tanker can pass through said opening;
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- a rear wall and opposing side walls;
- a respective first dewatering screen having an apertured screening deck being located beneath said at least one reception hopper and configured so that slurry passing through said opening is delivered onto said deck of said respective first screen, undersize material and water passing through said apertures of said deck to be received within a sump, and oversize material passing over said deck to be discharged from a downstream end of said deck;
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- flow control members in the form of inverted V shaped plates mounted on and extending from said rear wall and/or said side walls, said flow control members adapted to arrest the flow of water up said walls when slurry is initially discharged into said reception hopper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.