Liquid manure handling machine
AssigneeHesston Corporation
InventorsThomas A. Bedwell, Bruce L. Call
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Abstract
A liquid manure transport implement is provided with a vertically retractable loader and a spreader which are arranged to fit neatly within the general width and height dimensions of the manure tank on the rear end of the latter. An internally carried conveyor unit, associated with the loader and the spreader, has a pair of parallel, opposite lead augers mounted over the tank bottom in juxtaposition to the latter for swirling and agitating the manure within the tank and for concurrently functioning as conveyors during loading and unloading. The externally disposed spreader has a sump which extends slightly below the bottom of the tank to facilitate delivery of manure to the spreader by the conveyor unit during unloading of the tank.
Claims8
In a liquid manure handling implement having a holding tank for liquid manure obtained from a pool thereof:
- a pickup housing mounted on one end of said tank and adapted for insertion into said pool,
- said housing having an intake for manure from the pool and said tank having structure on said one end defining an inlet for picked-up manure from the housing;
- an agitator-loader device on said housing adjacent said intake for aggressively churning the pool to thoroughly admix all levels thereof and for concurrently drawing the agitated manure through the housing toward said inlet when the device is actuated,
- said housing being retractable from a lowered, loading position to a raised, transport position,
- said tank having an outlet on said one end for unloading stored manure from the tank;
- a conveyor unit within said tank for conveying manure away from said inlet and toward said outlet;
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- spreader mechanism mounted on said one end of the tank exteriorly thereof adjacent said outlet for distributing manure from the tank evenly over a field.
In a liquid manure handling implement:
- a holding tank having a bottom and a rear end and provided with an inlet and an outlet;
- a spreader mounted on said rear end of said tank exteriorly thereof for distributing manure from said tank evenly across a field;
- a pickup mounted on said rear end and extending rearwardly beyond said spreader, said pickup being adapted for loading manure into said tank through said inlet;
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- a conveyor unit within said tank adjacent said bottom for concurrently drawing manure away from said inlet and moving manure toward said outlet,
- said conveyor unit having means for creating countermoving streams of manure within said tank to thoroughly agitate the manure as the same is conveyed by said unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.