Cement batcher
OwnerRobert C. Milekinventor
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Abstract
A cement batcher for use with a concrete plant and having a suspended, elongated, low profile, hopper secured to an inclined arcuate trough, a helical auger operably disposed in the trough for moving cement from the lower inlet end to the upper discharge end of the hopper, a discharge tube secured to the upper end of the trough for discharging the cement from the batcher, a valve in the discharge tube to control the flow, and a plurality of holding baffles mounted transversely of the tube in the hopper to prevent the excessive free flow of cement to the lower end of the hopper.
Claims10
A cement batcher for selectively receiving, holdig, and delivering a predetermined amount of cement to a mixer, the batcher comprising:
- inclined elongated hopper means having an inlet means at the lower end thereof and an outlet means at the upper end thereof;
- auger means disposed longitudinally in said hopper means for moving cement from said inlet means to said outlet means;
- valve means disposed in said outlet means to control the flow of cement therethrough;
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- a first vertical baffle disposed transversely in said hopper means above said auger to partially restrict the flow of cement from said hopper upper end to said hopper lower end when said valve restricts the flow of cement from said outlet means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.