Crook for filling a sandbox
AssigneeNEU International
InventorJack Morin
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Abstract
A sandbox filler crook comprising a feed pipe in which a granular material is transported by compressed air, which pipe presents successively an upstream portion for holding by an operator, a curved intermediate portion, and a downstream portion for insertion into a feed orifice of the sandbox, the upstream and downstream portions being rectilinear and substantially vertical during filling, wherein said downstream portion of the pipe includes at least one side orifice for air exhaust.
Claims11
A sandbox filler crook comprising a feed pipe in which a granular material is transported by compressed air with a flow that corresponds to transport in a dense phase or in a solid phase, which pipe presents successively an upstream portion for holding by an operator, a curved intermediate portion, and a downstream portion for insertion into a feed orifice of the sandbox, the upstream and downstream portions being rectilinear and substantially vertical during filling, wherein said downstream portion of the pipe includes at least one side orifice for air exhaust, the at least one side orifice being through a rectilinear side wall of the downstream portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.