Vehicle mounted spreader
AssigneeAOB Products Company
InventorsSeth Wheeler, Ryan Varnum, Timothy S. Kinney, James Tanyon, Aaron Wood
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Abstract
A vehicle mounted spreader and components thereof. The material spreader includes a mount and a spreader assembly. The mount is mountable to a vehicle such as an ATV, UTV, truck, and/or the like. The spreader assembly is mountable to the mount thereon. A user may change the speed at which material is dispersed from the spreader assembly.
Claims35
A material spreader usable with a user-operated All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) or Utility-Terrain Vehicle (UTV) to spread material, the material spreader comprising:
- a mount configured to mount to the ATV or UTV;
- a spreader assembly comprising:
- a base;
- a hopper supported by the base and including an interior configured to hold a supply of the material, the hopper having an inlet through which material can be delivered to the interior and an outlet through which material can exit the interior;
- a thrower supported by the base and configured to spread the material from the hopper onto a surface over which the ATV or UTV moves;
- a control system including a power source and a motor operatively connected to the thrower;
- a flow rate assembly configured to control a flow rate at which the material flows to the thrower, the flow rate assembly including:
- gate passage structure configured to permit material to flow therethrough;
- a flow adjustor moveable with respect to the gate passage structure to change a degree of openness of the gate passage structure to adjust the flow rate at which the material flows to the thrower;
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- a gate moveable with respect to the gate passage structure and the flow adjustor, the gate being moveable between a closed position and an open position, the gate when in the closed position preventing flow of material from the hopper to the thrower, and the gate in the open position permitting flow of material from the hopper to the thrower through the gate passage structure.
A material spreader usable with a user operated All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) for spreading material, the material spreader comprising:
- a mount configured to mount to the ATV;
- a spreader assembly comprising:
- a base;
- a hopper supported by the base and configured to hold a supply of the material;
- a thrower supported by the base and configured to spread the material from the hopper to a surface over which the ATV moves;
- a flow rate assembly configured to control a flow rate at which the material flows to the thrower;
- a control system including a power source and a motor operatively connected to the thrower;
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- a user interface operatively connected to the control system, the user interface includes at least one actuator configured to permit the user to adjust a speed setting of the motor and turn the motor on and off, the at least one actuator including a first actuator configured to turn the motor on and off, wherein the first actuator is disposed at an elevation above the thrower and is arranged to be reachable by a driver sitting in a driver seat of the ATV when the material spreader is mounted on the ATV.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.