Multiple conveyor
AssigneeTarrant Manufacturing Company
InventorBruce W. Taylor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a unit insertable in a truck or trailer body to convert same into a multiple conveyor having multiple hoppers and conveyors for removing granular material therefrom via a spreading, unloading or dumping mode. The unit has two embodiments: in the one embodiment there are two hoppers and conveyors, and in the other embodiments there are three hoppers and conveyors.
Claims9
A self-contained unit insertable in and in combination with a vehicle whose body has front and side walls, said unit being used with said vehicle body's front and side walls, said unit having multiple conveyors for spreading, unloading or dumping therefrom bulk granular material such as salt, sand, grain, fertilizer;
- said unit having a converging front wall, a vertical rear wall, two converging outside walls, and inverted, V-shaped longitudinal divider means, said vehicle body's front wall forming a continuation of said unit's front wall, and said vehicle body's side walls forming continuations of said units outside walls;
- said converging-front, vertical-rear and converging-outside walls, and said divider means, together with said vehicle body's front and side walls, defining multiple hopper compartments, and each of said hopper compartments having one of said conveyors operatively associated therewith for removing such material.
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