Patent ID: 8371625
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: B60B

Abstract:
1. A vehicle salt dispensing system to be installed in the front end of a vehicle behind said vehicle grille or by installing an aftermarket adapter to be able to fit the vehicle salt dispensing system to the front of the vehicle on the outside of a vehicle bumper, comprising: a cap covering a spout, said spout is where salt is poured into, a tank connected to the spout for holding the salt, sight glass provides visible levels of said salt in the tank, and an opening for a radiator fan which circulates air to an engine, wherein the device further comprises bolt holders which fasten the vehicle salt dispensing device to a vehicle, the vehicle salt dispensing system also comprises: a rotating salt blade which fits into a blade housing, two flex pipes which are connected to the bottom of said tank, an upper cam rod, a lower cam rod, and also a sifting rod which are connected to butterflies, a plurality of gears are also connected to the upper cam rod and to the sifting rod, the plurality of gears including a drive gear which is connected to the sifting rod, a set of doors which are connected to the lower cam rod, the lower cam rod opens the set of doors to allow salt to dispense from the system, the system further comprising: a butterfly pipe connected to the flex pipes that allow the butterflies to open and close, the sifting wheels allow the salt to sifted directly to a set of front wheels of said vehicle followed by sifting to a set of rear wheels of said vehicle, said salt dispensing apparatus is powered by individual DC motors that are attached to the gears on the device, said upper cam rod and lower cam rod with push rods allow said butterflies to open and close on each side of the device to contain said salt in the salt tank or release it out of said salt tank on each side of the device to be dispensed to said wheels through housing doors and allow the salt to be sifted directly to each said front wheels through each of said flex pipes by the rotation of said salt blade in said salt tank by attaching said DC motors to a blade gear, an upper cam gear, and to a sifting main gear which are attached to secondary gears of said sifting main gear, in which the secondary gears are connected to said sifting wheels to dispense the salt to the wheels of the vehicle.