Portable pneumatic blower
AssigneeFinn Corporation
InventorDoug Wysong
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Abstract
A portable unit for pneumatically blowing landscaping and/or building materials, such as bark, mulch, fertilizer, compost, wood chips, grass clippings, leaves, gravel/stone, straw, hay, sawdust and combinations thereof is provided. The unit is transportable by: a car trailer, truck trailer, garden tractor trailer; on stakes of a stake bed truck; by a three point hitch; by a forklift and any combination thereof. The unit includes a hopper having an integral airlock feeder in one preferred embodiment. The unit either includes an on-board power supply device, such as an engine, or provides connections for receiving power remotely.
Claims16
A portable landscape/construction material blowing unit comprising:
- a base;
- a material hopper supported by the base, the hopper including an opening sized and positioned to receive a supply of material;
- an augur carried within the material hopper, the augur at least substantially vertically aligned and configured to contact at least a portion of the supply of material near the opening and transport said portion away from the opening;
- a hose extending from the hopper, the hose including a distal end through which material exits the hose;
- a blower supported by the base and connected fluidly to the hopper, the blower operable to force air through the hopper and material through the hose;
- and
- wherein the base, hose, hopper and blower are configured and arranged to be transported on another device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.