Mechanical - pneumatic meter of solid materials for agricultural machines and implements
AssigneeIndecar Maquinarias S.A.
InventorSergio Gastón Ricardo
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Abstract
A mechanical-pneumatic meter of solid materials for agricultural machines and implements that allows for an improved metering of the solid materials without the need of a forced suction or aspiration, covering the entire work width in a much more practical, simple and safe way, whether by metering the material either individually or combined with another type, and reducing, in turn, the negative impacts on the environment since it makes it possible to reuse those materials that have not been unloaded.
Claims17
A mechanical-pneumatic meter of solid materials for agricultural machines and implements, which is coupled to or mounted on the lower part of a hopper that contains one or more materials to be metered and has in its lower part at least two unloading openings or outlets that are selectively shutterable by means of respective guillotines, wherein the meter comprises:
- at least a main body that has at least two inner housings for the material reception, each of which coincides and communicates with each corresponding unloading opening or outlet of the hopper;
- at least a hollow cylindrical body arranged within each housing and having a plurality of pairs of loading and unloading openings;
- at least a gear train mounted within each cylindrical body;
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- at least a lower compartment in operative communication with said unloading openings of said cylindrical bodies and in communication with at least one turbine and some material unloading tubes or ducts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.