Cement charging, mixing and pouring apparatus attached on a heavy duty machine
OwnerYeong-sen Lininventor
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Abstract
A cement mixer pivotably mounted on a linkage of an arm assembly of a heavy-duty machine, for example, an excavator or a shovel. The cement mixer includes a barrel, an agitator assembly rotatably mounted on the barrel and used to agitate materials to be mixed in the barrel, a mounting beam connecting the barrel to the linkage, a funnel mounted on the mounting beam and positioned above the barrel and used to receive the materials to be mixed and a weight measuring device provided on the mounting beam and used to measure the weight of the materials received in the funnel.
Claims14
A cement mixer mounted on a linkage of an arm assembly of a heavy-duty machine, comprising:
- a barrel having a top opening for receiving materials to be mixed onto the barrel and a bottom opening for discharging mixed materials out of the barrel;
- a first valve and a second valve mounted on the barrel for respectively controlling an opening and closing of the top and bottom openings;
- an agitator assembly rotatably mounted in the barrel and used to agitate the materials to be mixed in the barrel;
- a mounting beam connecting the barrel to the linkage;
- a charging assembly mounted on the mounting beam and positioned above the barrel and used to receive the materials to be mixed and transferring a predetermined amount of the materials to be mixed into a barrel through the top opening thereof,
- a weight measuring device provided on the mounting beam and used to measure weight of the materials received in the charging assembly;
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- means for controlling the orientation of the cement mixer relative to the linkage.
A cement mixer according to claim 9 further the agitator asembly comprises a shaft extending through the barrel and a rigid helical blade fixedly attached to the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.