Patent ID: 6379034
Filing Date: 2002-04-30
Classification: B01F,B65G,B67D

Abstract:
A device for emptying a storage and transport container for liquids, wherein the storage and transport container comprises an inner container made of plastic material, an outer container made of sheet metal or a mesh and surrounding the inner container, and a support frame on which the inner container and the outer container are positioned, wherein the inner container is comprised of four sidewalls, a bottom wall and a top wall, wherein the top wall has a closeable fill opening and a closeable discharge opening the device comprising:a base frame; a pivot frame pivotably connected to the base frame; a pivot drive connected to the pivot frame; the pivot frame having an initial low position and an upper pivot end position, wherein the pivot drive is configured to pivot the pivot frame from the initial low position into the upper pivot end position and from the upper pivot end position into the initial low position; wherein the pivot frame is configured to receive the storage and transport container in the initial low position and to secure the storage and transport container in the upper pivot end position; wherein the upper pivot end position is an emptying position of the storage and transport container received on the pivot frame, wherein: the base frame has a bottom frame with a forward frame end and a rearward frame end and lateral frame parts connecting the forward end and the rearward end, two forward upright supports connected to the forward end of the bottom frame, two sidewalls connected to the forward supports and the lateral frame parts of the bottom frame; the pivot frame is pivotably connected to upper ends of the two forward upright supports; the pivot frame has a base, a front wall, and two sidewalls and is open at a side opposite the front wall; the pivot drive is comprised of a hydraulic pump and two cylinder-piston-units connected to the hydraulic pump; each of the two cylinder-piston-units is connected pivotably to the bottom frame and one of the sidewalls of the pivot frame, further comprising a stirrer connected to the base frame, wherein: the stirrer comprises a motor, an immersion axle driven by the motor, and a folding propeller connected to an end of the immersion axle remote from the motor; the base frame has a rotary support connected to one of the two forward upright supports of the base frame; the rotary support has a pivot arm and the motor is connected to the pivot arm; the rotary support is configured to be height-adjustable automatically or manually in order to adjust a position of the pivot arm; the folding propeller is configured to be moved automatically or manually via the pivot arm from a starting position external to the base frame into a top position above the storage and transport container received in the pivot frame and from the top position into an operating position inside the storage and transport container by passing through the fill opening of the storage and transport container and to be returned from the operating position into the starting position.