Fiber additive concrete manufacturing method
AssigneeK-Five Construction Corporation
InventorsRichard M. Sniegowski, Arthur Robert Osborn
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing concrete with a fiber additive and other ingredients including the steps of mechanically manipulating a shipping container (36) having a gross amount of fiber additive (50) substantially greater than the an amount susceptible to unaided manual handling with a mechanical manipulator to dump the gross amount of fiber additive (50) from the shipping container (36) into an additive hopper (46) moving at least some of the fiber additive (50) dumped in the additive hopper (46) to an additive hopper-bin (20) by means of a mechanically powered fiber conveyor (48) and conveying a preselected amount of the fiber additive (50) from the additive hopper-bin (20) to a mixer (14) for mixing with the other ingredients of the concrete being made.
Claims15
A method of manufacturing concrete with a fiber additive and other ingredients, comprising the steps of:
- mechanically manipulating a shipping container having a gross amount of fiber additive substantially greater than an amount susceptible to unaided manual handling with a powered mechanical manipulator to dump the gross amount of fiber additive from the shipping container into an additive hopper;
- moving at least some of the fiber additive dumped in the additive hopper to an additive bin by means of a mechanically powered conveyor;
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- conveying a preselected amount of the fiber additive from the additive bin to a mixer for mixing with the other ingredients of the concrete being made.
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