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US 3,945,511 AGranted
Asphalt storage system
OwnerErnest Delormeinventor
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Abstract
An improved silo for storage of asphalt, or similar materials which contain several different components that tend to separate in handling and storage, comprises first deflector means adjacent the silo inlet for causing material entering the silo to fall evenly over the total silo cross-section and second deflector means adjacent the silo discharge opening for causing materials to fall evenly from the discharge opening.
Claims6
A silo for the storage of asphalt and like materials and subsequent discharge without substantial segregation into different size components which comprises:
- a. a vertically elongated housing,
- b. an inlet opening centrally located at the top of said housing,
- c. a discharge opening centrally located at the bottom of said housing,
- d. a first conical deflector fixed in position beneath said inlet opening adjacent the top of said housing, said first deflector consisting essentially of:
- a stationary cone having its apex facing toward said inlet opening,
- an annular frusto-conical member fixed concentrically around said cone, the maximum radius of said cone being less than the minimum radius of said member, and
- radial vanes extending between said cone and said member holding them in fixed concentric relationship with the top of said member being in substantially the same horizontal plane with the apex of said cone,
- e. a second conical deflector fixed in position above said discharge opening adjacent the bottom of said housing, said second deflector constituting means for causing material within the silo to fall evenly therefrom out of the discharge opening.
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