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US 12,290,026 B2Granted
Apparatus for storing dry material
OwnerMark Frederick Hryniukinventor
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Abstract
A modular, low-profile apparatus for storing dry agricultural products has a horizontal configuration with coaxial aeration tubes and bi-directional distribution and dispensing augers. The apparatus provides access to dry agriculture products for storing, mixing, aerating, loading, unloading and processing.
Claims11
An apparatus for storing dry agricultural material comprising:
- at least one horizontal semi-cylindrical storage module having a center, an interior, an exterior, a long axis, a first terminal wall and a second terminal wall;
- and
- at least one aeration tube of a perforated material, coaxial with said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis, piercing said first terminal wall and said second terminal wall;
- and
- at least one upper auger residing above said aeration tube and parallel to said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis;
- and
- said at least one upper auger having a clockwise thread disposed from approximately a center of the semi-cylindrical storage module to said first terminal wall;
- and having a counter-clockwise thread disposed from approximately the center of the semi-cylindrical storage module to said second terminal wall;
- wherein
- feeding dry agricultural material into the center of said at least one upper auger, while said auger is rotating, disperses said dry agricultural material from the center toward the first terminal wall and second terminal wall of said storage module.
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An apparatus for storing dry agricultural material comprising:
- at least two semi-cylindrical storage modules paired side by side, joined at one exterior side;
- each semi-cylindrical storage module having a center, an interior, an exterior, a long axis, a first terminal wall and a second terminal wall;
- at least one aeration tube of a perforated material, coaxial with said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis, piercing said first terminal wall and said second terminal wall;
- and
- said at least one aeration tube in fluid communication with said exterior of said storage module;
- and
- at least one upper auger residing above said at least one aeration tube and parallel to said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis;
- and
- said at least one upper auger having a clockwise thread disposed from approximately a center of the storage module to a first end;
- and having a counter-clockwise thread disposed from approximately the center of said storage module to a second end;
- wherein
- feeding dry agricultural material into the center of said upper auger, while said auger is rotating, disperses said dry agricultural material from the center toward the first terminal wall and second terminal wall of said storage semi-cylindrical storage module;
- and
- reversing the direction of said upper auger, feeding dry agricultural material into an opening at one end of said upper auger, disperses said dry agricultural material from said one end toward the center of the storage module.
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