Apparatus for silo clean out
OwnerDavid Farajuninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning out material which remains within a confined space, such as silos, hoppers and the like, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a power driven device for impacting the material which is hung up within the silo to loosen it and allow it to fall downwardly of the silo. The device for impacting the material is suspended from and powered by a cable/hose which is reeled onto a drum supported above the material in the silo. The drum is rotatable to payout or rewind the cable/hose in positioning the impacting device in the area of the material to be loosened. The apparatus includes provision for automatically reciprocating the impacting device along the material face and in the event of a material avalanche, releasing the drum to allow the impacting device to fall downwardly with the flowing material.
Claims22
An apparatus for cleaning out material which remains within a storage area of a silo or the like, said apparatus comprising a power driven means for impacting said material, to loosen the material and allow it to fall downwardly of said storage area;
- means for suspending said impacting means from above said material in said silo and supplying power to said impacting means;
- said suspension/power means being sufficiently flexible to permit swinging movement of said impacting means about said storage area within said silo;
- a drum supported from a roof for said silo above said material in said silo about which said suspension/power means is wound, drive means for rotating said drum to pay out or rewind said suspension/power means in positioning said impacting means in the area of said material to reciprocate thereby said impacting means along a face of said material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.