Self-loading and self-unloading trailer
OwnerGustave Lucasinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus to be adapted to an agricultural trailer characterized by the fact that it allows the loading and unloading thereof without the need for any other engine or any labor by using only the motive power of the tractor to which it is hitched, the loading being carried out by picking up the product from the ground or from a silo and the unloading being carried out laterally or rearwardly of the trailer. The apparatus comprises a horizontal travelling endless conveyor mounted on the bottom of the trailer and a mechanical feeding and discharging vertical conveyor mounted on the trailer to load the product through its open top on the horizontal conveyor and to receive the product from the horizontal conveyor to discharge it out of the trailer.
Claims5
In self-loading and self-unloading apparatus comprising a vehicle having a bottom and enclosure-forming side walls, an open top portion at one end of said vehicle and a horizontal endless conveyor extending along said bottom wall, the improvement comprising:
- an upright frame mounted on said vehicle at said one end thereof;
- support means mounted on said frame for vertical displacement therealong;
- rotary pick-up means mounted on said support means and arranged to pick up products and throw the same upwardly;
- a fixed cover over the top portion at the other end of said vehicle;
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- a guiding chute means over said open top portion and said support means and rotary pick-up means and positioned to deflect said upwardly thrown products through said open top portion into said enclosure, said guiding chute means comprising a hood and a cover plate;
- said hood fixed to said support means and movable vertically with said support means and said rotary pick-up means;
- said cover plate hinged to said fixed cover and extending over said open top portion so as to be slidably supported on said hood.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.