Removable feedgate
AssigneeThe Louis Berkman Company
InventorsRobert V. Vickers, E. Kent Daniels, Jr.
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Abstract
The dump body of a dump truck includes a tailgate having an opening through which material in the receptacle can be dispensed by an endless conveyor in the dump body, and a feedgate for adjusting the rate of discharge is removably mounted on one of the tailgate and the bottom of the dump body and has a passageway through which the conveyor belt extends and a door displaceable toward and away from the conveyor to adjust the size of the passageway and thus the rate of material discharge when the conveyor is in operation.
Claims4
In a dump body to be mounted on a truck, said body having a bottom, side walls extending upward from said bottom, a front end and a rear end, a tailgate with a lower opening and pivotally mounted to swing on said body into a position closing said rear end, an endless conveyor at said bottom and extending in the direction between said front end and said rear end for conveying material in said dump body rearwardly for discharge through said opening in said tailgate when said tailgate is in said closed position, a housing with a housing wall inwardly adjacent said tailgate, said housing wall having a passageway over said conveyor and a metering door on said housing wall to control the size of said passageway to control the rate said conveyor moves material through said lower opening of said tailgate, the improvement comprising:
- said housing being separate from said tailgate and a fastener mechanism releasably fixing said housing to said bottom of said dump body whereby the housing is aligned with the opening in the tailgate only when the tailgate is closed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.