Patent ID: 6503042
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A bulk material handling system comprising:a transportable container defining a compartment, having an upper wall and an end wall provided with a closable access opening in an upper end thereof; and an apparatus including a support means, a first housing mounted on said support means, a second housing, a pair of conduits each interconnecting and intercommunicating with said housings to provide a circuitous path, a housing mounted in each of said housings with a sprocket mounted in said second housing having a substantially vertical axis of rotation, a rope assembly having an endless rope disposed in said housings and said conduits, along said circuitous path, reeved about said sprockets and provided with a plurality of discs secured to and spaced along said rope, said first housing having an inlet for feeding bulk material therein and said second housing having an arcuate outlet opening relative to the periphery of said sprocket mounted therein whereby bulk material fed into said first housing will be conveyed by said rope assembly to said second housing and propelled substantially tangentially through said outlet opening as said rope assembly travels about said sprocket in said second housing; and said conduits having a cantilevered section, said second housing forming part of said cantilevered section, insertable into said compartment of said container through said access opening in said end wall of said container for loading said bulk material in said compartment.