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US 4,420,119 AGranted
Horizontal silage unloader
OwnerVernon V. Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
This invention pertains to horizontal silage bag unloaders in general, and more specifically to an unloading mechanism which surrounds the open end of the bag, discharges the contents of the bag, slits the sides of the bag and rolls the bag up as it travels along the bags length towards a stationary backstops member disposed against the closed end of the bag.
Claims7
A horizontal silage unloader for use with an elongated plastic bag containing silage, comprising:
- an unloading mechanism which includes a wheeled framework which supports a plurality of driven rotary beater elements;
- a bed associated with the wheeled framework which accomodates a plurality of driven conveyor means;
- travel means associated with said unloader mechanism to move said unloader mechanism from one end of the plastic silage bag to the other end of the plastic silage bag;
- a plurality of driven plastic gathering rollers rotatably supported upon said wheeled framework;
- a plurality of cutter blades mounted on said wheeled framework and adapted to sever the plastic bag into sections as said wheeled framework moves from one end of the plastic silage bag to the other;
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- means associated with said driven plastic gathering rollers to attach the ends of said plastic sections to the gathering rollers to accumulate the cut plastic sections as the unloader mechanism moves from one end of the bag to the other.
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