Hood for discharging the contents of an inverted container
OwnerLadislav Stephan Karpisekinventor
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Abstract
A hood for mounting over the open top of a container for allowing the container to stand inverted on legs of the hood. The container's contents can then be discharged through the open top of the container and the hood chute. The hood includes a latching device for gripping the container and further includes movable sockets for engagement by a lifting device required to place the hood on, and remove the hood from, the container. Linkages connect the sockets with the latching device and movement of the sockets, as the hood is lifted by a hood lifting device, moves the latching device from a latching condition, which is so biassed by, for example, compression springs, to a release condition.
Claims13
A hood for a container having four sides, a base and an open top;
- the hood comprising a four sided frame with a seating end to sit on top edges of the four sides of a container at the open top of the container, legs on the frame extend away from the seating end of the frame, a discharge chute having an entry end and a smaller discharge end with the chute ends separated by a tapered chute body, the chute entry end being fixed to the hood frame adjacent the frame seating end and the chute body extends away from the frame seating end in the same direction as the frame legs, socket means on the hood frame for receiving hood lifting means, said socket means being movable towards and away from the frame seating end between a working position and a rest position where the rest position is closer to said frame seating end than is said working position, latching means on the hood frame connected by linkage to the socket means, biassing means for the latching means, the latching means being movable between a latching condition for coupling the hood to a container and a release condition and is biassed by said biassing means to the latching condition, the latching condition and the release condition of the latching means respectively corresponding with the rest position and the working position of said socket means.
A hood for a container of the type having four sides, a base and an open top, said hood comprising:
- a frame having a seating end for engaging sides of a container;
- legs on said frame extending away from the seating end of said frame;
- a discharge chute having an entry end and a smaller discharge end separated by a tapered chute body, the entry end of said discharge chute being fixed to said frame adjacent the seating end of said frame, the tapered chute body extending away from the seating end of said frame in the same direction as the legs of said frame;
- coupling members pivotally mounted on said frame for coupling said hood to the container;
- receivers mounted on said frame for limiting linear movement towards and away from the seating end of said frame;
- means for resiliently biassing linear movement of said receivers toward the seating end of said frame;
- hood lifting means being engaged with said receivers;
- and,
- links connecting said receivers to said coupling members, with movement of said receivers in a direction away from the seating end of said frame by said hood lifting means engaged with said receivers being transferred through said links to said coupling members for pivoting the coupling members from a container coupling position to a container release position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.