Patent ID: 6220531
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: A01C

Abstract:
A mobile bin device comprising a main mobile frame with a elongated bin mounted thereon with said bin having an opening along its bottom along the length of the bin, a first elongated belt conveyor and a second elongated belt conveyor;said first conveyor being mounted at a fixed position on said frame beneath said bin opening and having remote ends and extending in length along the bin from one end of the bin to the other end of the bin,said second elongated conveyor being pivotally mounted at one of its ends on said frame at a location on said frame adjacent said one end of said first conveyor to pivot about a vertical axis from a storage position wherein said second conveyor extends parallel in length along the length of said first conveyor and bin and beside and adjacent said first conveyor to various different operative positions wherein said second conveyor extends laterally outward of said first conveyor with its one end below and beneath said one end of said first conveyor,said second conveyor being further pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis at its one end at said location adjacent said one end of said first conveyor to pivot said other end of said second conveyor upward or downward while said second conveyor is laterally outward from said first conveyor and the one end of the second conveyor remains beneath and below the one end of the first conveyor, said first and second conveyors each having movable belts thereon whereby material may be conveyed on said first conveyor belt from said bin opening along said first conveyor to said one end of said first conveyor and then conveyed onto said one end of said second conveyor belt while said second belt conveyor extends laterally outward from said first conveyor, and further may conveyed upward or downward away on said second conveyor belt from said first belt conveyor upward or downward laterally away from said first conveyor.