Truck dumper dust control
AssigneeAir-Cure Incorporated
InventorMichael R. Harris
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Abstract
A truck dumper including a material receiving hopper, a tilt table configured to dump a load from the truck or truck trailer into the material receiving hopper. The invention includes a stilling shed positioned above the material receiving hopper and at least one curtain baffle suspended below the roof of the stilling shed. The curtain baffles are positioned such that there is a gap located near the roof and an upper margin of the at least one curtain baffle through which air can flow. The invention further includes an air exhaust structure configured to exhaust dust laden air from the interior of the stilling shed.
Claims18
A method of emptying contents from a truck bed, comprising:
- driving a truck having the truck bed onto a truck dumper, the truck bed containing the contents to be emptied therefrom;
- positioning at least a rear portion of the truck bed at least partially in a stilling shed having a roof and sidewalls that also encloses a material receiving hopper of the truck dumper;
- raising the truck bed on the truck dumper to an angle sufficient to facilitate dumping the contents from the truck bed into the material receiving hopper of the truck dumper;
- placing a rear portion of the truck bed in contact with a first curtain baffle suspended within the stilling shed near a roof of the stilling shed wherein there is a gap located proximate a junction of a top margin of the curtain baffle and the roof;
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- exhausting dust laden air from the stilling shed to an air exhaust structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.