Patent ID: 6970801
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: E02F

Abstract:
1. A movable bucket wheel device comprising: a forward jib; and a control system for the automatic control of the moveable bucket wheel device for the reducing of stockpiles and/or the piling up of bulk goods, whereby the bucket wheel device further comprises at least one bucket wheel for pile takeup of bulk goods; at least one measurement device for the measurement of the stockpile, and the bucket wheel device is automatically moveable to a desired reducing and/or a piling up position dependant on a measured and/or processed measurement data, the control system and the measurement device automatically and continuously monitor and capture an actual stockpile shape without carrying out a measuring pass, whereby the measurement device is a 3-D image capturing system for capturing the stockpile shape in the region of the forward jib to prevent the forward jib from bumping into the stockpile peaks; and a GPS system for capturing of movements and/or positions of the bucket wheel device.