Patent ID: 6112955
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: E04G,G01F

Abstract:
A grout dispenser comprising:(a) a grout hopper having four sides of substantially equal length joined together at corners to form a hopper chamber having an opening facing in a first direction, and wherein two of said hopper sides are disposed with lower ends closer together than upper ends forming a narrowed, bottom region of the hopper;(b) an elongated tube mounted to a first end of said hopper near the narrowed region of the hopper and extending longitudinally away from said hopper to a first tube end;(c) an aperture formed in a sidewall of said tube, said aperture facing in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction that the opening of the hopper faces;(d) a flexible hose mounted to the tube at the aperture, permitting fluid communication between a hose interior and a tube interior;(e) an auger removably mounted in the hopper and the tube, said auger extending through the tube and within the narrowed region of the hopper to be drivingly linked to a means for rotating the auger, said rotating means mounted at a second, opposite hopper end for rotating said auger to move grout from the narrowed region of said hopper, through said tube and through the aperture in said tube into said flexible hose; and(f) an auger removal cap mounted on the first tube end opposite the rotating means, wherein said cap is removably mounted to said tube for permitting removal of said auger from said tube through the first tube end.