Mobile bin apparatuses and process of operation thereof

A mobile field bin of such large size and unloading features as to provide economically significant convenient and reliable feed to road transport container vehicles has wall and wheel support and adjustment structures and operations that provides for particularly improved road transport and ready location characteristics and unloading operation.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
1. The Field of the Invention 
The fields of art to which this invention relates are: Material-handling 
and Self-unloading vehicles with conveyors and successive handling means. 
2. Description of the Prior Art 
The prior art has not provided a combination of adequate volumetric 
capacity and readily transported and located bins: the instant apparatus 
and operations overcome such failings. Exemplary patents of such prior art 
are U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,806,475; 3,460,698; 3,455,475; 3,488,866; and 
2,834,493. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
A mobile bin of large capacity holds meaningful large volumes and provides 
mixing and thereby provides reliable, steady, and hence economic feed to 
large road transportation trucks. This mobile bin is readily located 
between accommodation of the large weight of material held thereby while 
still providing for ready transportability of such structure is 
accomplished by use of particularly located vertically extensible wheel 
support and positioning structures whereby such wheels may be extending to 
ground contacting transport position when the bin is empty, while wheels 
are withdrawn and the frame of the bin in used to support the weight of 
the contents in the bin when the bin is to be filled with grain and used 
as a holding structure between field gathering vehicles and road transport 
vehicles. 
As transportation to the locations at which the mobile field bin is usually 
used is usually along unpaved and or crowned roads, and tilting of such a 
bin structure parallel to the road surface and concomitant poor drawing or 
trailing characteristics would render the entire apparatus unreliable, is 
unsafe or impractable for the above purposes, such tilting avoided by 
wheel adjustment and support structures that are particularly located with 
their zones of ground support or contact symmetrically located about the 
vertical plane including the side wall and wall frames to which attached 
and the plane of vertical adjustment movement of such wheels with respect 
to each bin side wall to which attached is also in the plane of such wall 
or wall frame. Thereby the transversely spaced vertical bin walls may 
located at different heights relative to the sloped road or ground along 
which such mobile bin is drawn during transport along a sloped or crowned 
road whereby the wheels and the bin frame walls are able to be maintained 
so oriented to the vertical, as to provide greatly improved reliability 
and ease and safety in tracking or trailing characteristics of such 
wheeled bins in view of the particularly dimensionally stable side wall 
and frame structure provided.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
FIG. 1 is a side view of the mobile bin assembly 29 in its elevated mobile 
condition on a road 30 in combination with a tractor (28) as seen from the 
left side. 
FIG. 2 is a view of the apparatus combination of FIG. 1 as seen from the 
right side. 
FIG. 3 is an enlarged side view of zone 3A of FIG. 2 to show the adjustable 
wheel assembly 60. 
FIG. 4 is a side view of the wheel assembly shown in FIG. 3 at the same 
scale as in FIG. 3 when the bin is in its ground supported position. 
FIG. 5 is an overall diagrammatic view, in part through section 5A of FIG. 
2, of bin assembly 29 to show the overall operation of the bin of the 
system in combination with other apparatuses used therewith (a harvester 
and a grain truck) in operation of the overall system comprising the bin 
of FIGS. 1-4. 
FIG. 6 is a transverse sectional view through the vertical plane 6A-6B of 
FIG. 3 to illustrate the relations of the components of the wheel assembly 
bin support unit in the position thereof shown in FIG. 3. 
FIG. 7 is a vertical longitudinal section through the vertical plane 7A--7A 
of FIG. 6 in the position of the parts of apparatus shown in FIG. 4. 
FIG. 8 is an overall diagrammatic view of the hydraulic system of the 
apparatus 29. FIG. 8A is a portion thereof. 
FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic vertical transverse section through vertical plane 
9A--9A of with apparatus 28 on a crowned road 66. 
FIG. 10 is a rear view of the apparatus 29 as seen along the direction of 
the arrow 10A of FIG. 1. 
FIG. 11 is a perspective pictorial view from the rear and left side of the 
apparatus 29. 
FIG. 12 is an oblique perspective and pictorial view of the apparatus 29 
from the left side and front thereof with an operator in position for 
operation of the apparatus 29. 
FIG. 13 is a view of the interior of the compartment 50 as seen by the 
operator 127 when that bin compartment is empty. 
FIG. 14 is a front view of the front end of apparatus 29 illustrating a 
drawbar assembly 140.1. 
FIG. 15 is an oblique perspective view of the left front corner of the 
apparatus 29 to show the drawbar adjustment thereon. 
FIG. 16 is a side view of another bin support wheel assembly 170 shown in 
the bin elevating position generally as shown in FIG. 1 at ZONE 16A. 
FIG. 17 is a partly cut away showing of the wheel support assembly 170 
shown in FIG. 16 in the position of parts thereof where the apparatus 29 
is in contact with the ground 30 during the operative position of the 
apparatus as shown in FIGS. 5 and 24. 
FIG. 18 is in part a front end view of the front end of the bin with 
another drawbar assembly (180) than the assembly 140.1 shown in FIGS. 14 
an is also, in part, a sectional view through transverse vertical plane 
18A--18A of FIG. 19. 
FIGS. 19, 20, and 21 are views of the drawbar assembly 180.1 in the raised 
position of the bin frame as shown by frame number 182. FIG. 19 is a view 
from the right hand side thereof as shown along direction of the arrow 19A 
of FIG. 18 in the raised position of the drawbar. FIG. 20 is a view along 
the direction of the arrow 20A of FIG. 18 to show the drawbar-raising 
apparatus as seen from the left hand side thereof in the raised position 
of the drawbar assembly. FIG. 21 is a close-up front left side oblique 
view of the drawbar control linkage during the raised bin position of that 
draw bar assembly 180. 
FIG. 22 is a view of the drawbar assembly as seen from the left side 
thereof viewed from direction 19A of FIG. 18 when the drawbar control 
linkage assembly is in its made for lowered position of the bin 30. 
FIG. 23 is a view from the right hand side of the drawbar assembly; i.e. as 
seen along the direction of arrow 20A in the position of the parts of the 
linkage assembly when the bin is raised. 
FIG. 24 is a perspective view of the movable upper auger assembly 245 in 
its discharge operation. 
FIG. 25 is a side view of a ZONE corresponding to ZONE 16A of the apparatus 
shown in FIG. 1 utilizing another embodiment of wheel assembly. 
FIG. 26 is a diagrammatic sectional view through vertical transverse plane 
26A--26A of FIG. 19. looking forward in direction of arrows 26A--26A. 
FIG. 27 is a diagrammatic showing of the mechanical and hydraulic 
components and connections thereof for the movable upper auger discharge 
assembly. 
In the figures and text the term "left" refers to the side of the apparatus 
29 on the left hand side of a driver (59.4) of FIG. 1 and the term "right" 
refers to side of the apparatus on the right hand side of the driver 
(59.4) of FIGS. 1 and 2, which driver is shown as facing in the direction 
of forward movement of the tractor 28, forward being to the left as shown 
in FIG. 1, and forward being to the right as shown in FIG. 2. FIGS. 1 and 
2 are to scale and at the same scale. FIGS. 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 are to 
scale and to the same scale. FIGS. 10-25 are pictorial and, with allowance 
for perspective, to scale; FIGS. 16 and 17 are to the same scale. 
In the embodiment of FIGS. 1-15 overall dimensions are as set out in Table 
I (insert A) below: 
TABLE I 
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1. Length of compartment 55 
(wall 144 to wall 108) 40 feet 
2. Width of compartment 55 
(wall 291-293) 8 feet 
3. Height of frame 300 
(bottom of member 121 
to top of member 118) 9 feet 
4. Walls 291, 292, 293, 294 
12 ga. steel 
5. Empty weight of assembly 29 
12,000 pounds 
6. Tires 71 and 43, outside diameter 
27 inches 
Tread width 6 inches 
Pressure 60 psig 
Size 8.00 .times. 14.5 
7. Member 367, 368, x- section 
3".times. 4" 
8. Frame members 121 and 123, x-section 
2".times. 2" 
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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
The mobile bin assembly 29 comprises, in operative combination, a rigid 
truss frame, a longitudinally extending bin 50, auger assemblies 81-84, 
wheel and wheel support assemblies as 60 on each side of the bin, a 
drawbar assembly 140 (or 180) and a power assembly, 99, in operative 
combination. 
The bin 50, comprises in operative combination, a plurality of rigid walls 
as 108, 291-294 and 144 (FIGS. 1, 2, and 13) and a bin compartment, 55, 
therein. An operator's platform 125 is supported on the front bin wall 
144. Portions of a truss frame 300 are firmly connected to the bin wall 
panels and supports those panels while the wall panels also strengthen the 
frame, the panels between the frame members acting as webs. 
In the fixed location condition of bin 29 when it is used to hold, mix and 
dispense grain while acting as in intermediate repository between the 
containers of a field gathering harvester truck 51 and a highway transport 
vehicle as 56 (in FIG,. 5) the lower beams as 121 and 123 of the truss 
framework of bin 29 are on the ground as shown in FIGS. 4, 5, and 17 and a 
power take-off shaft 188 is operatively connected to the power take-off 
199 of the tractor 28 for mixing and discharge of the bin contents. Mobile 
bin 29 is, in its mobile condition, operatively attached to a tractor 28 
by a drawbar assembly for longitudinal movement of the bin and the bin 29 
frame is elevated over the ground 30 as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 16 by 
the vertical extension of the extensible wheel and wheel support 
assemblies and by the drawbar adjustment assembly. 
The walls of the bin assembly 50 are a vertically and longitudinally 
extending upper left side panel, 293, and a vertically and longitudinally 
extending upper right side panel, 291, spaced away from each other is a 
transverse direction, and a vertically and transversely extending front 
end panel, 144, and a vertically and transversely extending rear end panel 
108, and a centrally and downwardly sloped longitudinally extending left 
bottom panel 294 and a centrally and downwardly sloped longitudinally 
extending right bottom panel 292. The left bottom panel has an upper 
longitudinally extending upper edge 131.1 and a lower longitudinally 
extending central bin bottom edge 131.3. The left upper longitudinally 
extending upper edge 131.1 is joined to and is coextensive with the bottom 
edge of upper left side panel 293. The right bottom panel 292 has an upper 
longitudinally extending side edge 131.2 and a lower longitudinally 
extending bottom central edge (coextensive with edge 131.3 of the left 
bottom panel.) The upper longitudinally extending side edge 131.2 of the 
right bottom panel 292 is coextensive with and firmly connected to the 
bottom edge of the upper right side panel 291. The transversely extending 
tropezoidal front end panel 144 and rear end panel 108 are joined to the 
front and rear ends respectively of upper side panels 291 and 293 
respectively and to the front and rear ends of the bottom panels 292 and 
294. The lower longitudinally extending bottom central edges of each of 
the bottom panels 292 and 294 are joined to each other at bottom bin edge 
131.3. 
An open topped bin compartment 55 is defined between the upper left and 
right side panels 292 and 294 and the front and rear end panels 108 and 
144 and above the bottom panels 292 and 294. 
A rigid operator support platform 125 is firmly attached to and supported 
on the front bin assembly wall 144 and is provided with rigid railings 
127.1 and steps as 126 and located at a height permitting observation of 
the bin compartment 55 by an operator as 127 supported on that operator 
support platform as shown in FIG. 12. 
The auger assemblies include a front auger sub-assembly, 82.1 a rear auger 
sub-assembly 83.1 and a central auger sub-assembly, 81.1. 
The front auger assembly 82.1 comprises a longitudinally extending helical 
auger blade 82, and an auger blade support shaft 82.2, shaft supports as 
82.4 rotatably attached to each end of the auger blade shaft and firmly 
attached to and located in the bottom of the bin compartment 55 above and 
parallel to the bottom bin edge. The blade extends from near to the front 
end of the bin compartment (i.e. from immediately to the rear of front bin 
panel 144) toward the middle of the bin compartment 55. A hydraulic drive 
auger motor 85 is operatively connected by pulley 141.1 and belt 142.1 to 
the front auger blade. A hydraulic valve control 93 is operatively 
connected to a hydraulic pump 89 as a power source and to the auger drive 
motor 85 whereby to independently vary the direction and speed of rotation 
of the front auger blade; the control valve 93 for the motor for front 
auger 82 is located in a panel 128 on the railing 127.1 adjacent the 
operator's support platform, 125 and within ready reach of the operator 
127 while in position to observe the bin compartment 55, which compartment 
in within the walls of the bin assembly 50. 
The front auger blade has front and rear V-shaped roof panels 133 and 134 
thereabove; these panels slope laterally and downwardly from a center 
peak; and are firmly held a short distance (1-2 inches in the preferred 
embodiments) above and away from the front auger blade. Such roof panels 
are adjustably yet firmly held in position on rigid vertically extending 
threaded rods or columns as 130 (shown in FIG. 24) and 130.2, 130.21, and 
130.22 (FIG. 13) between nuts adjustably yet firmly held on those columns. 
Longitudinally and vertically extending openings as 130.1 and 130.3 (shown 
in FIGS. 13 and 24) are formed between the lateral and edges of the roof 
panels as 133 and 134 and floor panels 292 and 294 and allow passage of 
grain as 58 in bin 55 to the auger blade as 82 under the roof panels 133 
and 134. 
The rear auger assembly 83.1 comprises a longitudinally extending helical 
auger blade 83, and an auger blade support shaft 109, firmly attached to 
and supporting the auger blade 83, and auger shaft supports such as 82.4 
rotatably attached to each end of the auger blade shaft and firmly 
attached to and located in the bottom of the bin compartment 55 above and 
parallel to the bottom bin edge. The blade 83 extends from near to the 
rear end of the bin compartment i.e. from immediately to the front of rear 
bin panel 108 toward the middle of the bin compartment 55. A hydraulic 
drive auger motor 86 is operatively connected by pulleys 105, 106, and 
belt 107 to the shaft 109 of the rear auger blade. A hydraulic control 
valve 95 is operatively connected to the hydraulic pump 89 as a power 
source and to the auger drive motor 86 whereby to independently vary the 
direction and speed of rotation of the rear auger; the control valve 95 
for the motor 86 for rear auger 83 is located in panel 128 on the railing 
127.1 adjacent the operator's support platform, 125. 
The rear auger blade has front and rear V-shaped roof panels 132 and 131 
thereabove as 133 and 134 for auger 82. These roof panels 131 and 132 are 
held a short distance (1-2 inches in the preferred embodiments) above and 
away from the rear auger blade such roof panels are sloped downwardly and 
laterally from a central peak and are adjustably yet firmly held in 
position above the auger therebelow as are panels 133 and 134. Thereby 
longitudinally and vertically extending openings such as 130.1 and 130.3 
are formed between the lateral edges of the roof panels as 131 and 132 and 
floor panels 292 and 294 to allow passage of grain as 58 to the auger 
blade as 83 under the roof panels 131 and 132 in the same manner as for 
panels 133 and 134 and auger blade 82. 
The front auger has a rear, discharge end at 133.1 (FIG. 13) The rear auger 
has a front discharge end 132.1 located rearwardly of the discharge end of 
the front auger, as diagrammatically shown in FIG. 8 and pictorially in 
FIG. 13. 
The central auger sub-assembly 81.1 comprises a central two-part auger 81 
(which has two parts, 81.4 and 81.5) and and shells 113, 117, and 111 
therefor and a motor for their blades. Assembly 81.1 extends vertically 
and transversely from a lower central end 81.2 in the bin compartment near 
the bottom thereof to an upper end 112 located, as shown as FIGS. 10 and 
11, above the top edge of and substantially laterally beyond one side as 
293 of the bin compartment 55. 
The central auger assembly 81.1 comprises a lower central auger shell 117 a 
lower auger blade 81, an upper central auger blade 115, an upper central 
auger shell 113, an upper auger blade 81.5, a peripheral chute 111 and a 
hydraulic drive motor 87. The lower central auger shell 117 is a rigid 
tube that rotatably supports and houses the lower auger blade portion 81.4 
as shown in FIG. 8. A drive motor 87 is operatively connected by a pulley 
and belt connection 87.1 (similar to the belt and pulley assembly of 
elements 105, 106, 107, and 109) to the shaft 113.2 of the lower auger 
blade 81 which shaft is fixed to the lower central auger helical blade. A 
hydraulic control valve assembly 94 for the central drive motor 87 for 
rotating the central auger 81 is also located on panel 128 and is 
operatively connected to pump 89 and motor 87. 
The overall shell 135 for the central auger assembly is composed of a lower 
tube portion 117 and an upper tube portion 113 coaxial with the tube 117 
the bottom of the upper auger shell portion 113 is firmly attached to a 
plate 114 and the top end of the lower auger shell 117 is firmlly attached 
to a lower flat orifice plate 115 (shown in FIG. 10). The plates 114 and 
115 are flat and rigid and hingedly connected to each other at a pianl 
joint hinge 116 and have a coaxial central circular orifice of the same 
diameter size as the outer diameter of auger 81. The lower auger blade 
shaft 113.2 of blade 81 has an upper forked end. The upper auger blade 
shaft 113.1 has a lower forked end. These forked ends join, in the 
position thereof shown in FIGS. 8 and 11, to form a releasable drive joint 
or coupling 113.3. The upper auger shaft 113.1 of an upper auger blade 
portion 81.5 rotatably yet firmly held in upper auger shell 113. Piano 
hinge 116 has an axis of rotation parallel to and above and lateral to the 
upper edge of left panel 293 as shown in FIGS. 10, 11, and 12 to permit 
pivotal rotation of the upper chute 113 and the helical blade therein to a 
position extending into the bin compartment 55, as shown FIG. 10 (and in 
dotted line position 126.1 in FIG. 12). This pair of hinged orifice plates 
114 and 115 is a structural provision for an alternate or travel 
positioning of the lateral portion of the discharge chutes 113 and 111, 
which positioning reduces the width of the roadway required for on the 
highway movement of the bin 29, as shown in FIG. 10. In operation, as 
shown in FIG. 5, the plates 115 and 114 are held together by bolts as 
115.1 (FIG. 11). 
The overall central auger shell 135 has a top lateral discharge chute 111 
with outlet opening 111.1 at its lateral end, and an inlet opening 81.2 at 
its lower end. The inlet opening 81.2 is located to the rear of the front 
auger 82 and forward of the front end of the rear auger, and adjacent the 
bottom end of the central auger, as diagrammatically shown in FIG. 9. The 
central upper auger blade 81.5 is fixed to shaft 113.1 and extends upward 
from plate 114 (in position of parts shown in FIGS. 11 and 8) in upper 
auger chute 113 and a cylindrical discharge chute 111 extends laterally 
and downwards from the upper end 112 of chute 113 below the top thereof. 
The upper auger blade 81.5 is fixed to upper central auger shaft and is 
rotatably located in rigid cylindrical upper chute 113. 
The bin frame 300 comprises a left side truss frame 316, and a right side 
truss frame 137, a front frame 318 and a rear frame 319 Each of the left 
and right side frames 316 and 317 respectively comprise rigid 
longitudinally side members 123 and 121 and upper side members 118 and 
119, respectively. These rigid upper side longitudinal members are 
attached to the upper left and right side panels 293 and 291 near the top 
edge thereof and extending from the front to the rear of the bin 
compartment 55. The lower side longitudinal frame members 123 and 121 are 
located below the lower edges 131.2 and 131.1 of the side wall panels and 
below the bottom bin edge, 131.3. The left side frame 316 also comprises a 
plurality of rigid vertically extending members (291, 302, 304, 306, 307, 
309, 311, 313, and 102 from front to rear, (FIG. 1) each attached firmly 
as by welding at its upper end to the upper left each side attached firmly 
longitudinal frame member 118 and also firmly attached at the adjacent 
portions of panel 293 above the level of lower edge 131.1 of the upper 
left panel 293--such firm attachment being by continuous welding--to the 
outer side of the upper left side panel 293 Each such vertically extending 
member is also attached firmly at its lower end to the lower side member 
123. Rigid longitudinally extending diagonal frame members 301, 303, 305, 
308, 310, 312, and 314 each, as 303, join an adjacent vertical member as 
302 and 304 at its point of joining to the horizontal members as 123 and 
118 and form a side truss frame structure, extending in a vertical and 
longitudinal plane. 
The right side frame 317 also comprises a plurality of rigid vertically 
extending members 121.1, 322, 324, 326, 73, 76, 329, 331, and 333, 
(reading from front to rear as shown in FIG. 2) each attached firmly as by 
welding at its upper end to the upper right side longitudinal frame member 
119 and each firmly attached to all of its upper portion, i.e., the 
portion above the level of lower edge 131.2 of the upper right panel 
291--as by continuous or closely spaced spot welding--to the outer side of 
the upper right side panel 291. Each such vertically extending frame 
member is also similarly firmly attached at its lower end to a lower side 
frame member 121. Rigid vertically and longitudinally extending diagonal 
frame members 321, 323, 325, 327, 75, 328, 330, and 332, each, as 323, 
joined to adjacent vertical members at the points of their joining to the 
horizontal members as 121 and 119 and form a side truss structure, 
extending in a vertical and longitudinal plane transversely spaced from 
and parallel to frame 316. 
The members as 301-314 are rigid steel ells. The side frames 316 and 317 
are firmly jointed at their bottom longitudinal members (123 and 121) by 
rigid lower transverse frame members as 122, 122.1 (FIG. 12) 104, 104.1 
firmly attached thereto rigid transverse upper frame members as 54 rigid 
ells or square sectioned tubing at top of rear frame 319 and front frame 
144 are firmly attached at their ends to the upper longitudinal side 
members 118 and 119 of the side frame assemblies 316 and 317. 
The adjustable wheel assemblies comprise a left wheel support assembly 101, 
and like right wheel support assembly 60; each of said wheel support 
assemblies is a mirror image of the other so the description of assembly 
60 applies to assembly 101. 
The right wheel support assembly 60 comprises a separate rigid movably 
mounted T-shaped wheel support frame, 70, a pivotal support link 39 for 
that wheel frame and an extensible wheel frame positioning piston shaft 
36, and a left wheel and wheel assembly position drive piston 35; the left 
wheel support assembly 101 includes a corresponding left wheel and wheel 
assembly support drive piston 335. 
The embodiment of movable wheel support frame 60 comprises a rigid 
vertically and longitudinally extending T-shaped movable frame 70 formed 
of inner and outer parallel vertical members 367 and 62 (FIG. 6) and inner 
and outer bars 63 and 368 firmly joined together respectively and with a 
reinforcing plate as 377 (For 367 and 368). A rigid lower front 
cylindrical shaft 378 is attached to the lower end of plates 368 and 63 
and is located above a wear plate 42 fixed to beam 121. A rigid upper 
spacer block 38 is firmly joined to the top of plates 67 and 62; plate 38 
has a rear fork 37.1 and pin 37 to which extensible piston shaft 36 is 
pivotally attached. A rigid pivot link 39 is attached pivotally at its 
rear to a pivot link pin 32 held in a base 31 fixed to frame member 121 
near to a vertical frame member 76. The front upper end of rigid pivot 
link 39 is pivotally attached to a pivot pin 41 at top of members 62 and 
367 as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 6, and 7. The pins 37 and 41 are spaced apart 
from each other longitudinally. The extensible shaft 36 is longitudinally 
movable in a rigid hydraulic piston cylinder 35. The piston cylinder 35 is 
pivotally attached by a pin 34 to a clevis or fork 33 firmly attached to 
base 31. Plate 63 supports an inwardly extending axle 61 at its rear and 
plate 368 supports a laterally extending axle 369: axles 369 and 61 are 
co-axial and transverse to the length of bin 50. As outer wheel frame 42 
and tire 43 are rotatably attached to outer axle 369 and an inner wheel 
frame 72 and tire 71 are rotatably attached to axle 61. Thereby the upper 
end 38 of the rigid movable wheel support frame 70 is firmly yet pivotally 
attached to the bin frame adjacent to the vertically extending frame 
member 76 by the pivotal support link 39 pin 32 and base 31. The pivotal 
support link 39 is a rigid arm pivotally attached to one end to the pin 41 
in the rigid movable wheel support and another end thereof is pivotally 
attached to the bin frame at pin 32. 
The extensible piston shaft 36 and poston cylinder 35 provides an 
extensible assembly with a rigid end connector at each end thereof, one 
end thereof, 36, is pivotally attached to the wheel support frame at a 
point thereon (37) spaced apart from the attachment thereto (at 41) of the 
pivotal link 39. The other of the rigid ends of piston 35 is pivotally 
attached to the bin frame at pin 34 which is only slightly spaced away 
from the point of attachment to said bin frame of link 39 and the line of 
force 35.1, which is compressive, in the weight supporting postion of 
assembly 60 passes along the point of attachment of the bin frame to the 
extensible assembly (pin 34, cylinder 35, shaft 36, pin 37) and intersects 
the line of force 39.1 through the pivotal support assembly (pin 32, link 
39, pin 41) at a point along the straight line of length (76.1) of the 
adjacent straight vertical frame member, 76 (as shown diagramatically in 
FIG. 3) 
This wheel adjustment assembly provides that the wheels may be raised 
relative to frame 300 from the position shown in FIGS. 3 and 6 to the 
position shown in FIGS. 4 and 7 thereby the bin compartment 50 is 
supported in the ground through its frame members as 123 and 121 which 
rest on the ground for the full length of the frame while a load of grain 
is held in the bin compartment 55; the wheel as 101, 100, 43 and 71 
support no part of the load then in the bin: accordingly the wheel and 
wheel support assemblies may be light. Each of the pivotal elements as 35 
and 39 and 367 of assemblies 60 and 101 force a shaft as 378 firmly 
against a plate 42 in the fully elevated bin position. Stress due to road 
travel is applied directly to the frame members as 76 adjacent to the 
attachment of the wheel support assembly and from that member to the panel 
291. The panel 291 and truss members attached thereto form a vertically 
rigid structure. The wheels are readily moved into and out of vertically 
extended position and vertical movement of the bin compartment that might 
damage the bin by conventional springing is avoided. 
The hydraulic piston 35 is operatively connected to and actuates the 
extensible shaft 36. A hydraulic control valve 91 is, as shown in FIG. 8, 
operatively connected to the hydraulic pump 89 and to the piston 35: that 
valve, 91, like valves 91-96, 271 and 272 is located adjacent the 
operator's support platform in panel 128. 
The hydraulic control valve 92 is operatively connected to a hydraulic 
piston 335 for the extensible shaft like 36 for actuation of the wheels 
100 and 101.1 of assembly 101 comparable to wheels 43 and 71 of adjustable 
wheel assembly 60 on a frame 70.1 like frame 70. 
An adjustable drawbar assembly 140.1 comprises rigid left and right drawbar 
arms 142 and 152, in form of a rigid forwardly directed Vee (or V) shape. 
A hitch clevis 158 and hitch pin 159 are at the front end thereof. The 
arms 142 and 152 are pivotally attached by rigidly left and right ears 151 
and 141 rigidly attached to a front transverse frame member 122. Left and 
right drawbar pins 140 and 150 pivotally connect the drawbar frame arm 
members 142 and 152 to the ears 151 and 141. 
A pair of extensible hydraulic pistons assemblies left and right piston 
cylinder 155 and 148 with extensible left and right piston shafts 149 and 
154, respectively, are pivotally attached at their rear ends to rigid 
transverse front frame member 145 located above the transverse front 
member 122 by left and right lugs 156 and 146 in that bracket and left and 
right pivot pins 157 and 147 fixed to those piston ends and connecting 
those piston ends to those lugs or ears. The forward ends of the left and 
right piston shafts are connected by rigid ells to holes in plates 153 and 
143 respectively, for adjustment of length as needed. 
A hydraulic control valve 96 is operatively connected to each of pistons 
148 and 155 and the power source 90. Valve 96 is located in panel 128 on 
the railing 127.1 of the operator support platform 125. 
The wheels 43, 71, 100 and 101.1 of the assemblies 60 and 101, and the like 
functioning assemblies 70 and 250 of FIGS. 17 and 25 respectively, are 
located, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 closer to the rear wall 108 of the bin 
assembly 55 then to the front wall 144 thereof. The operator platform 125 
and the hydraulic pump 89 and return tank 88 and drawbar assembly 140 or 
180 are also located on or forward of the front bin wall. Accordingly the 
vertical location of the side frames 316 and 317 relative to the ground 
therebelow, as 66 is controlled by the postioning of the drawbar assembly 
as 140.1 or 180 and the wheel assemblies as 60 and 101 or 170. 
Accordingly, with the motor of the tractor 28 operating and powering pump 
89 and the drawbar assembly attached to the tractor 28, the operator 127 
at the panel 128 may raise and lower the front end of the bin frame 
relative to the ground by operating valve 96 and the positioning of 
pistons 35 and 335--which is also controlled by a operator as 127 
operating valves as 91 and 92 at panel 128-- provides for vertical 
positioning of the remaining portion of the bin assembly 29. 
The arms 368 and 63 of the wheel frame 70 loosely engage the sides of the 
bottom longitudinal side member 121 continuously while action of the 
piston 35 moves the axles 61 and 369 from the lowest position thereof 
(relative to frame 317) as shown in FIG. 4 to the highest position of 
those axles (as shown on FIG. 6). The cylindrical pins as 31 and 34 and 41 
and 37.1 that hold the upper end of assembly 60 in position primarily 
provide for pivotal movement of the elements attached thereto about the 
longitudinal axes of those pins as the center of rotation of such pivotal 
motion and those pins are elongated in directions parallel to each other 
and transverse to the length of the bin chamber. While there is some small 
(1 to 2 degrees) rotation about axes transverse to the length of those 
pins by the elements attached to those pins, the great length of arm 367 
above beam 121 relative to the distance of axles 61 and 369 below beam 
121--FIGS. 3, 4, and 6 are to scale--prevents any substantial movement of 
the center of the areas of contact of wheels 43 and 71 (and wheels 100 and 
101.1 of assembly 101 likewise) from moving away from the vertical plane 
in which the frame (317) and panel (291) supporting the wheel assembly 
(60) lies. The remaining structure of assembly 60 provides for the 
vertical movement and adjustment of the wheels of wheel assembly 60 being 
in the plane of the wall structure 317. 
The wheel and wheel support assemblies 60 and 101 provide independently 
vertically adjustable left and right sets of wheels (171, 43, 101.1, 100) 
and also provide that each such wheel set is independently movable up and 
down in a plane parallel to the side frame as 316 and 317 on which such 
wheel set, as 71 and 43 on the right side and 101.1 and 100 on the left, 
is supported. Further, the area of contact of 66.1 and 66.2 of the wheels 
71 and 43 of each wheel assembly as 60 with the ground as 66 therebelow in 
the mobile condition of the bin 29, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 9 are located 
symmetrically on both sides of a center line, as 66.3 which lies on 
surface of road 66 in the vertical longitudinal plane in which the side 
wall and frame as 31 lies and to which (side wall) the wheel frame support 
assembly as 60 is attached. 
The relative position of the ground support area as 66.1 and 66.2 of each 
wheel as 43 and 71 is readily adjustable vertically relative to its side 
frame as 317 by movement of the wheels, as 43 and 71 in a plane parallel 
to that side frame on which such wheel support assembly as 60 is 
supported. Each wheel and wheel support assembly as 60 (and like assembly 
101) thus provides for maintaining the side wall frame thereabove as 316 
(and 317) vertical even when the bin 29 is moved along one side of a 
typical farm road with a high crown as shown in FIG. 9; this is done by 
actuation of the wheel assembly as 70 to extend vertically sufficiently to 
keep the frame walls 316 and 317 vertical, while support assembly 70 is 
extended assembly 101 is not extended; the vertically deminsionally stable 
structure provided by frame 316 prevent sagging of the rear and of the bin 
and allows this differential of height to be maintained. The line 66.4 in 
FIG. 9 indicates the horizontal plane therein. 
The wheel support assemblies as 60 and 101 and the similarly functioning 
structures of FIGS. 16, 17, and 25 (assemblies 170 and 250) provide that 
the bin 29 in its mobile condition reliably and safely and controllably 
move in a straight line behind a tractor, as 28, drawing it along such a 
crowned road as one set of wheels, (as 101.1 and 100) is readily located 
by hydraulic control assembly 99 at a higher or different vertical level 
than the other set (such as wheels 71 and 43) to provide such relationship 
and maintain it. The vertically dimensional stable wall structure is 
provided by cooperation of the truss frame 300 and the large vertical 
height of the wall panels as 293 and 291 (which act as reinforcement for 
such truss structure) provides a rigid vertically deep beam member firmly 
resisting any vertical movement up and down from the position provided 
thereto by the drawbar attachment adjustment assembly as in FIGS. 14, 15, 
and 18-23 and the wheel support frame positioning pistons as 35 adn 335 of 
assemblies 60 and 101 and the similar wheel positioning assemblies of 
FIGS. 16, 17, and 25. 
Accordingly the rear end of the bin 50 does not shake or vibrate vertically 
to any appreciable degree during movement of bin 29 along the usual 
unimproved unpaved roads hence allows full use of the differrence of the 
vertical extensibility of the left and right wheel and wheel support frame 
assemblies as 60, 170, and 250. 
A tarpaulin 144.1 is usually applied and held by cables as 144.2 over the 
top of the bin compartment 55 to protect the contents therein from weather 
during storage and to improve road trailing characteristics of assembly 29 
during windy days. 
Each of valve 91-96 in panel 128 is similar to valve 96 and comprises a 
throttle and cut-off valve as 97, the body of which (99) is operatively 
connected to a high pressure line 90. A movable spool, 98, is located in 
valve body 99 and has conventional internal connection for forward, 
reverse and hold position and a control handle as 89 as diagrammatically 
shown in FIG. 8A. 
A discharge chamber is formed within the upper chute 113 and is located 
adjacent the upper end of the central auger 81. That chamber has an 
opening adjacent the upper end of the auger 81 (discharge) end, and a 
rigid horizontally extending upper chute 111 extends laterally from that 
discharge chamber to an outlet 111.1. In operation grain is passes by and 
from auger 82 and 83 to auger 81 and to chute 111 to fill an open topped 
grain truck 56 located to the side of bin 55 when the bin 29 is in its 
fixedly located operative condition, as in FIG. 5 with a mass of grain 58 
therein. Such mass of grain comes from a harvester truck 51 which 
discharges through a chute no. 2 a stream of grain 53 to the interior of 
bin compartment 55 on the bin assembly 50. In that position of bin 29 the 
wheels of the wheel support assemblies as 60 and 101 are raised to a 
vertical level at which the bottom of such wheels are higher than the 
bottom of side bottom longitudinal frame members as 121 and 123 
respectfully as shown in FIGS. 4 and 7. 
In an alternative embodiment, shown in FIGS. 24 and 27 the pivotal or 
rotatable auger assembly 245 of FIGS. 24 and 27 is used in place of the 
pivotal assembly comprising auger blade 81.5 and tube 113 of FIG. 8. 
The movable assembly 245 comprise a rotatable upper auger 270 fixed to a 
shaft 244 which is rotatably mounted in a shell 241. The shaft 244 is 
connected to and driven by a hydraulic motor 249. The motor 249 is 
connected by hydraulic lines 246 and 246.1 to a control valve 271 on panel 
128. 
A rotatable support 248 assembly 245 is formed by an outwardly or radially 
extending circular lip 273 on tube wall 117. A lower plate 274 with a 
circular orifice fits around tube 117 under lip 273 and is attached to a 
circular rim plate 275. The rim plate is firmly held to a top plate 278. 
Plate 278 is fixed to tube 241. And hydraulic motor 274 is attached by 
bracket 240.1 to shell 117. A chain 276 is fixed to rim 275 and is engaged 
by a gear 277. Gear 277 is driven by hydraulic motor 240. Lines 247.1 and 
247 connect motor 240 to valve 272 in control panel 128. The rotatable 
chute support plate assembly 248 rotatably supports the auger 245; in one 
position, as shown in FIG. 24, assembly 245 extends transverse to the 
length of bin compartment 55. By controlling the motor 240 the assembly 
245 is rotated and may extend forward of the chute 117 to a position as 
shown as 242.2 or 242.1 in FIG. 24; there the assembly 245 extends 
forwardly and does not extend transverse to the bin and provides for 
decreased overall width and transportation of the bin assembly is 
facilitated. The upper chute postioning motor 240 is operatively connected 
to the chute 245 for movement thereof. The outer end 242 of the chute 
assembly 245 may be rotated in the path as 243 within the container of a 
truck 56 so as to longitudinally distribute the grain passed from the mass 
58 in the bin compartment 55 to an even height within the container 
compartment 240 of the truck 56. This may be done by an operator standing 
in position of operator 127 in FIG. 12 and such distribution to the truck 
56 may be effected while that bin 29 is being loaded as shown in FIG. 5 by 
the truck operation of 56 so that no time is wasted by the truck operator 
in waiting for his truck to be loaded. This arrangement also provides for 
an even distribution of the grain in the truck 56 while the truck is 
stationary rather than requiring the truck 56 to be moved longitudinally 
of the bin assembly 29 during such loading. 
This assembly 245 when placed in position as 242 and 241 in FIG. 24 also 
provides that a mass of grain as 58 in the bin compartment 55 may be moved 
by movement rearwardly of auger 82 and then be moved from the rear end of 
that auger 82 to the bottom end of auger 81, then up the chute 117 to 
chute 241, then by auger 270 to end 242 therof, then at the front end of 
bin 55, and then to the portion of mass 58 at the front end of bin 55, 
then downward to the front end of auger 82 and back again to auger 81, and 
thereby provide circulation and mixing of the grain in the holding bin 29. 
Alternatively, the chute 245 may be directed by motor 240 and valve 272 
toward the rear of the bin compartment 55 and grain circulation in bin 55 
may be from the mass as 58 within the bin forwardly by auger 83, then 
upwardly along auger 81 and then rearwardly along auger 270 and then back 
to top of mass 58 at rear of bin 55, and then again to auger 83. 
In embodiments of FIGS. 16 and 17 the left wheel support assembly 170 
comprises a separate rigid movably mounted T-shaped wheel support frame 
160, like 70, and a pivotal support link 173, like 39, for that wheel 
frame and an extensible wheel frame positioning piston shaft 163, like 30, 
and a left wheel and wheel assembly position drive piston cylinder 164, 
like 35; the right wheel support assembly then includes a corresponding 
right wheel and wheel assembly support drive piston. 
The embodiment of movable wheel support frame 160 comprises a rigid 
vertically and longitudinally extending T-shaped movable frame that is 
formed of like inner and outer parallel vertical members 167 and 63.1 
(like 367 and 62 in FIG. 6) and like rigid inner and outer bars 168 and 
168.1 firmly joined together respectively with a reinforcing plate as 177 
(for 167 and 168). A rigid lower front cylindrical shaft 169 is attached 
to the lower ends of bars 168 and 168.1 and is located above a wear plate 
176 fixed to beam 123. A rigid upper spacer block like 38 is firmly joined 
to the top of plates as 167; that block, 167.1, like plate 38, has a rear 
lug, 161, and pin, 179, to which extensible piston shaft 163 is pivotally 
attached. A rigid pivot link 173 is attached pivotally at its front to a 
pivot link pin 174 held in a ear 175 fixed to frame member 123 near to a 
vertical frame member 307. The rear upper end of rigid pivot link 173 is 
pivotally attached to a pivot pin 172 at top of member 167 as shown in 
FIG. 16. The pins 172 and 179 are spaced apart from each other 
longitudinally. The extensible shaft 163 is longitudinally movable in a 
rigid hydraulic piston cylinder 164. The piston cylinder 164 is pivotally 
attached by a pin 166 to a clevis or fork 165 firmly attached to base 
member 123 near vertical frame member 309. Inner bar 168.1 supports an 
inwardly extending axle like 61 at its rear end; plate 168 supports a 
corresponding laterally extending axle 178 (like 369): these axles, like 
369 and 61, are co-axial and transverse to the length of bin 50. As outer 
wheel frame as 42 and tire as 43 are rotatably attached to outer axle 169 
and a corresponding inner wheel frame as the tire as 71 are rotatably 
attached to axle of member 63.1. Thereby the upper end of the rigid 
movable wheel support frame 160 is firmly yet pivotally attached to the 
bin frame adjacent to the vertically extending frame member 307 and 309 by 
the pivotal support link 173 pin 174 and ear 175. The pivotal support link 
173 is a rigid arm, pivotally attached at one end to the pin 172 in the 
rigid movable wheel support frame 160 and its other and is pivotally 
attached to the bin frame at pin 174. 
The extensible piston shaft 163 and piston cylinder 164 provide an 
extensible assembly with a rigid end connector at each end thereof; one 
end thereof, 162 is pivotally attached to the wheel support frame at a 
point thereon (lug 161) spaced apart from the attachment thereto (at 171) 
of the pivotal link 173. The opposite end of cylinder 164 is pivotally 
attached to the bin frame at pin 165 which is joined to an ear 165. Ear 
165 is firmly joined to longitudinal side member 123 adjacent to vertical 
frame member 309. 
This wheel adjustment assembly provides elevation of the bin frame side 
walls by movement of the support wheels in a plane parallel to and with 
center thereof substantially coplanar with the frame wall to which 
attached, as do wheel support assemblies 70 and 101 above discussed as 
well as that the wheels may be raised relative to frame 300 from the 
position shown in FIG. 16 to the position thereof shown in FIG. 17 and 
thereby, as for assemblies 70 and 101, the bin compartment 50 is supported 
on the ground through its frame members as 123 and 121 which rest on the 
ground for the full length of the frame while a load of grain in held in 
the bin compartment 55 and the wheels of each assembly as 170 then support 
no part of the load then in the bin. 
In the use of wheel and wheel support assembly 170 of FIGS. 16 and 17 in 
place of assemblies as 70 and 101 in the assembly 29, the hydraulic piston 
164 is operatively connected to and acutates the extensible shaft 
therefor, as 163, and hydraulic control valve 92 is, as shown in FIG. 8, 
operatively connected to the hydraulic pump 89 and to the piston 164 and 
hydraulic control valve 91 is operatively connected to the piston in the 
wheel support assembly corresponding to assembly 170 on the other side of 
bin assembly 29. 
The solid angle of the bottom wall panels as 292 and 294 with the 
horizontal is 34.degree.; the panels bottom panels provide a rigid ribbed 
corner structure at the bottom edge 31.3 which edge is rigid in the 
transverse and vertical direction and limits side-to-side sway of the 
vertically extended side wall panels as 291 and 293 The stiffness of the 
vertical panels 291 and 293 and their resistance to change in vertical 
dimensions permits a large differential in height of walls 316 and 317 for 
a small vertical extension of the wheels from the bin frame edge in the 
grain holding position thereof, as in FIGS. 4, 5, 17, and 25. 
The substantially vertically extending (in position shown in FIG. 3) frame 
member 367 and 63 of frame 60 (and like members 167 and 63.1 of assembly 
160) are rigid sturdy steel (about 3 .times. 6 inches) bars (note FIGS. 1, 
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 16, and 17 are to scale) and the horizontally extending (in 
FIG. 3) bars 63 and 368 of frame 60 are also rigid sturdy steel bar 
rectangular in section (about 3 .times. 6 inches) as are the members 169 
and 168.1 of FIG. 16. The frames 70 and 160 are structurally and 
functionally the same although the pivotal and extensible link connections 
thereof to the bin frame on wheel supported are different, and the 
referent members are different because of necessity therefor to avoid 
confusion in the description of the different overall assemblies. 
The horizontal (in FIGS. 3 and 16) lower bar members as 368, and 63 in FIG. 
3 and 168 and 168.1 in FIG. 16) are firmly held to the vertically 
extending members thereabove (as 63 for member and for member) by welding 
and a reinforcing web plate as 177. The vertically extending frame members 
(as 367 and 63 in assembly 70, as well as the like members 167 and 63.1 in 
assembly 160) are held firmly and spaced apart by a rigid plate (as 38 and 
167.1) at their upper ends (as shown in FIGS. 6 and 16 for assemblies 43 
and 160 respectively): parallel spaced apart lower horizontally extending 
members as 368 and 63 in assembly 60 and similar members 168 and 168.1 in 
assembly 160 are firmly attached to by the rigid bar therebetween (bar 378 
in assembly 60 and bar 169 in assembly 160) and thereby held in firm fixed 
spatial relationship to each other by that rigid bar. The vertical paired 
members 368 and 63 and 168 and 168.1 as well as the horizontal members 63 
and 368 and 168 and 168.1 are parallel to each other and spaced apart only 
far enough to form a easily sliding fit on the adjacent side surfaces of 
the longitudinally extending bottom side frame member (121 in FIG. 3, 123 
in FIG. 16). 
The bottom members 368 and 63 and 168 and 168.1 each have a flat side 
facing the bin frame member (as 121 or 123) to which such wheel frame 
member is adjacent as shown (in FIGS. 6 and 17) The vertically and 
longitudinally extending surfaces of the pivotally movable wheel support 
frame members (of frames 70 and 160) central and lateral of the adjacent 
side frame member as 121 or 123 are thus held in a close but slidable fit 
with that longitudinally extending bottom side frame member as 121 or 123 
in the use in assembly 29 of the wheel and wheel support assemblies as 60 
and 101 shown in FIGS. 3-6 and in the use of the wheel and wheel support 
assemblies as 170 shown in FIGS. 16 and 17 for bin assembly 29. Each 
support frame, as 70 and 160 is accordingly shaped like an inverted letter 
"U" when seen in transverse cross section, as in FIG. 6 although shaped 
like an inverted "T" when seen from the side, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 17. 
The axles on each U-shaped sectioned wheel support frame, as axles as 61 
and 369 on frame 60--and like axles on the frame 160 of assembly 
170--which axles support the wheels as 71 and 43 respectively are 
accordingly constrained to move vertically and longitudinally only in 
vertically and longitudinally extending planes (in flat surfaces) each at 
a fixed horizontal distance from the frame member (as 121 or 123) located 
between, or embraced by, the horizontally extending members, as 368 and 63 
(or 168 and 168.1) of that wheel support frame. 
Therefore, in the operation of raising and lowering of the wheel and wheel 
support assemblies -- as 70 and 170 of FIG. 6 and of FIG. 16 -- the center 
-- as 66.3 -- of the overall areas of the wheels ground support of each 
such wheel and wheel support assembly, as 101 (in FIGS. 9 and 10) is 
located substantially in the plane of the bin wall side frame, as 316, to 
which side wall frame such wheel and wheel support assembly (101 or 160) 
is attached when the side frame is vertical as in FIG. 9. 
The bin assembly 29 is also made in a 45 ft. .times. 9 ft. high .times. 9 
ft. wide size having a carrying capacity of 150,000 lbs. of grain. FIG. 25 
shows the wheel and wheel support assembly 250 in such modification: it 
uses 9L - 15 size tires. Such tires have a tread diameter of 8 inches, a 
wheel diameter of 15 inches, an outside diameter (as axle 260 to edge of 
tire 258) of 28 inches, and have an outside chamber wall width distance 
(parallel to axle 260) of 81/2 inches. Corresponding data for tire 43 are 
6 inch tread, 14.5 in. wheel diameter, outside diameter of 27 inches, and 
wall width of 61/2 inches. While the radii of the wheels 43 and 71 and 258 
and 257 used in the particular embodiments shown are about 15 inches, 
larger diameter wheels may be used, and while the stroke or vertical 
motion of the wheel support assemblies applied to the wheels of the wheel 
and wheel support assemblies is about 20 inches in the particular 
embodiments 70, 170 and 250 shown, larger stroke movements are within the 
scope of apparatuses and process steps herein disclosed, although the 
stroke and wheel diameters above disclosed are adequate for the purpose of 
wall alignment discussed for use on conventional farm roads with usual 
slope of 6 to 12 inches in 10 feet of road width on one side thereof. 
The wheel and wheel suport assembly 250 comprises a vertically movable 
wheel support frame sub-assembly 250.1 and a wheel frame positioning 
sub-assembly 255.1. The wheel frame positioning sub-assembly 250.1 
comprises a vertically extending frame post 254, a piston cylinder 251, a 
positioning piston shaft 252 and a yoke positioning sleeve 253 and a frame 
arch sub-assembly 262.1. The movable wheel support frame sub-assembly 
255.1 comprises a vertically extending rigid yoke 255, a horizontally 
extending rigid longitudinal axle arm 256, axles 260 and 261, and a pair 
of tandem wheels 258 and 257. 
Axles 260 and 261 extend horizontally, transversely, and laterally from and 
are rigidly and firmly fixed to arm 256 and parallel to each other and 
rotatably support wheels 258 and 257 of equal size. (9L-15 size) 
The lower longitudinal member 123 of side frame 316 is broken away near the 
position of the central auger 81 to provide, as shown in FIG. 25, a frame 
arch sub-assembly 262.1. Arch sub-assembly 262 is composed of front 
vertically extending arch arm 262, a top longitudinally and horizontally 
extending frame arch arm 263, a rear vertically extending arch arm 264, a 
lower longitudinal well arm 265, and lower transverse well frame member 
265.1 and 265.2. 
Vertical support arm 254 is a rigid vertical steel beam firmly attached to 
plate 293 and upper longitudinal frame beam 118. Arch beams 262, 263, and 
264 are rigid beams firmly attached to each other and vertical beams 307 
and 309 of side frame 316. Transverse members 265.1 and 265.2 are firmly 
attached at their lateral ends to frame members 121 and 123 and lower 
longitudinal low arm 265 is a rigid arm firmly attached at its front and 
rear ends to transverse members 265.1 and 265.2 centrally of the wheels 
257 and 258 in well 257.1. 
The yoke 255 is firmly yet pivotally fixed by a rigid pivot pin 259 to 
rigid arm 256 at a fork at the bottom of yoke 255. At its top yoke 256 is 
a rigid beam of rectangular cross section and is firmly yet slidably held 
by sleeve 253 of similar internal cross section. Yoke 256 is firmly 
attached at its upper end to the lower end of piston 252 and is moved up 
and down by the piston shaft 252. Piston shaft 252 is slidably held in 
piston cylinder 251 for vertical motion therein. 
The extensible piston shaft 252 and piston cylinder 251 provide an 
extensible assembly with a rigid end connector at each end thereof; the 
lower end of shaft 252 is attached to the wheel support frame yoke arm 
255. The other of the rigid ends of piston cylinder 251 is attached to the 
bin frame at arm 254. 
This wheel adjustment assembly provides elevation of the bin frame side 
walls by movement of the wheels 257 and 258 in a plane parallel to and 
substantially co-planar with the frame wall to which attached, as do wheel 
support assemblies 70 and 101 above discussed as well as that the wheels 
may be raised relative to frame 300 to the positon shown in FIG. 25 and 
thereby, as for assemblies 70 and 101, the bin compartment 50 is then 
supported on the ground through its frame members as 123 and 121 which 
rest on the ground for the full length of the frame while a load of grain 
is held in the bin compartment 55 and the wheels of each assembly as 250 
then support no part of the load then in the bin. 
In the use of wheel and wheel support assembly 250 of FIG. 25 in place of 
assemblies as 70 and 101 or assemblies as 170 in the bin assembly 29 the 
hydraulic piston 251 is operatively connected to and acutates the 
extensible shaft therefor, as 252 and hydraulic control valve 92 is, as 
shown in FIG. 8, operatively connected to the hydraulic pump 89 and to the 
piston 251 and hydraulic control valve 91 is operatively connected to the 
piston in the wheel support assembly corresponding to assembly 250 on the 
other side of bin assembly 29. 
The wheel support assemblies, as 60 and 170 as well as wheel support 
assembly 250 thus maintain like alignment relations of the bin side frames 
as 316 and the wheels on the wheel support assemblies (as wheels 43 and 71 
on assembly 60 and wheels 101.1 and 100 on assembly 101 and like wheels on 
the wheel support assemblies as 160) attached to such bin side frames and 
as provided by wheels 258 and 257 of wheel and wheel support assembly 250. 
Panel 291 (like 293) is 5 feet high from its bottom edge 296 (like 297) to 
its top at beam 119 (like 118) in the 40' .times. 8' .times. 8' embodiment 
of FIGS. 1, 2, and 10 and the volume of the bin compartment 55 in that 40 
foot long, 8 foot high, 8 foot wide embodiment is 1840 cubic feet. 
An adjustable drawbar assembly 180 may be used in place of the drawbar 
assembly 140.1. Drawbar assembly assembly 180 comprises rigid left and 
right drawbar arms 184 and 187, in form of a rigid forwardly directed Vee 
(or V) shape. The arme 184 and 187 are firmly attached to a front 
transverse frame member 183 identical to frame member 122 of FIG. 12. FIG. 
18 shows at 125.1 a variation of the operator support platform 125 and a 
variation of the location of steps (126.1) to the platform from the steps 
126 in FIG. 12. The railing 127.2 functionally corresponds to railing 
127.1 of FIG. 12 and supports the valve control panel 128 thereon. The 
rear end of a pivotally supported beam center arm 197 is supported on a 
pin 216 and lug 217 and a hitch plate 203 is at its front end thereof 
rigidified by a web plate 213. A hitch plate clevis 204 and hitch pin 202 
are at the front end of the plate 203. A reinforcing pillar plate is 
firmly attached to the top of the arm 197 over a notch 232 for a pin 194. 
A series of rigid links 207, 209, 269 and plate 195 and their connecting 
pins 268, 218, 294 connecting the pins and piston 190 serves to raise and 
lower the front end of the frame 300 on actuation of the piston assembly 
composed of shaft 190 and cylinder 191 when the clevis 204 is firmly 
attached to the hitch as 201 of a tractor as 208 through the pin 202 of 
the clevis 204. 
The extensible piston shaft 190 actuated by piston 191 is pivotally 
connected by a clevis 212 and pin 211 to a rigid longitudinally and 
vertically extending control plate 195. Plate 195 is pivotally supported 
on pin 194. The plate 192 is firmly attached to arm 184 and like rigid 
plate 210 is firmly attached to arm 187. Plates 192 and 210 may be joined 
firmly in spaced apart relation to each other and on each side of beam 
197. 
A lower front pin 268 forwardly and longitudinally spaced from the rear 
control plate pin 194 is releasably held in the plate 195 by the cotter 
pin 196. The pin 268 is connected by rigid links 209 and 269 to pin 218. 
Pin 218 is rotatably and firmly connected in the base pillar block 221. 
In operation of the drawbar raising apparatus in FIGS. 19-23 as well as the 
drawbar assembly 140 and the wheel and wheel frame support assemblies 70, 
101, 160, and 250, the tractor 28 has the power take-off 205 thereof 
connected by telescoping tubes 198 and 188 to the pump 89 which pump is 
located on a bracket as 181 on the front frame 144 generally as shown in 
FIGS. 19-23 and diagrammatically in FIG. 8. 
In operation the extensible piston shaft 190 is actuated by power to the 
piston 194. That piston bears against a pin 214 on ear 215 on the 
transverse frame member 183 annd move the plate 195 in a clockwise 
direction as shown in FIG. 19 to raise the frame members 184 and 187 to be 
adjacent to the arm 197. When the piston 191 is actuated in the opposite 
direction the plate 195 rotates counterclockwise (as shown in FIG. 22) 
about the pin 196 and lowers the pin 194, thereby putting the front end of 
frame 300 on the ground 30 as shown in FIG. 22. 
In the raised position of the frame 300 as shown in FIG. 20 a locking pin 
233 passes through the hole 234 in the plate 210 and hole 231 in block 
221. In such position of the pin 233 where at its locks the plate 210, the 
arms 187 and 184 are held upwards. 
The piston 191 is connected to the valve 96 in place of the pistons 148 and 
155 and the position of the arm 197 relative to the frame 300 is 
controlled by the operator 127 by his actuation of the valve 96 in the 
panel 128 in the same manner as actuation of the drawbar assembly 140 
would have been effected: in the embodiment shown, the distance between 
axis of pin 194 and 268 is 12 inches: between 268 and 211 is 14 inches; 
between pins 268 and 218 is 12 inches. 
In combination with the wheel and wheel support assemblied 60, 170, and 250 
shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 6, 7, 16 and 25 the adjustability of the height of 
the front end of the bin compartment by adjustment of the extensible 
piston shafts of such drawbar assemblies as 140.1 and 180 allows a 
horizontal positioning of the lowermost longitudinal members as 121 and 
123 of the bin wall side frames as 316 and 317 close to but reliably 
spaced from the road surface and provides, accordingly, a maximum use of 
the available differential in height of the side frames provided by the 
wheel and wheel support assemblies of the bin assembly 29. 
Farm roads have slopes from 1/4 inch to 2 inches per foot in a lateral 
direction, with shoulders formed on relatively soft dirt so that tilting a 
mobile bin on such roads is a serious problem during transport; such 
problem is overcome by the bin assembly 29 and its process of operation as 
herein described. 
In its operation (as well as structurally) bin assembly 29 may use the 
drawbar apparatus 140 (of FIG. 14) or apparatus 180 (of FIG. 18) and may 
use or incorporate the wheel and wheel support assemblies 60 and 101 (of 
FIGS. 3.4, 6, and 7) [assembly 101 is a mirror image duplicate of assembly 
101] or the wheel and wheel support assemblies as 170 with a corresponding 
assembly on the opposite side of bin frame 300, (such corresponding wheel 
and wheel support assembly being a mirror image of assembly 170) or using 
the wheel and wheel support assembly 250 and a corresponding assembly on 
the opposite side of bin frame 300, such corresponding assembly being a 
mirror image of assembly 250. In operation, all of such alternative 
apparatuses are used in combination with a tractor as 28 operatively 
connected to the bin assembly 29 by as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 8, 19, 20 with 
the drawbar assembly 140 or 180 for traction and lifting of frame 300 and 
operatively connected by a power take-off shaft, as telescoping splined 
shafts 188 and 189, converted at its front to the tractor power take-off 
199 by a universal joint as 205 and at its rear to the hydraulic pump 89. 
In operation the tractor 28 draws the bin 29 to transport that large 
holding bin as 27 from one site of operation as in FIG. 5 to another along 
one side of a laterally downwardly sloped road as in FIGS. 9 and 10 while 
the drawbar assembly and the wheels and wheel supporting assemblies as 70 
and 101 (or 160 or 250) are in their bin frame raising position is shown 
in FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 16, and 25. During such process of transportation 
the lateral side wall as 291 of that bin is raised to a greater height 
over the ground on which supported than the height of the more central 
wall 293 of that bin over the ground on which that more central wall is 
supported. Such raising is effected by applying the tractor engine power 
to the pump 89 and driving hydraulic fluid 88.1 in system 99 through 
valves 91 and 92 to piston cylinders as 35 and 335 of assembly 60 and 101 
or like pistons as 164 of assembly 170 or piston as 251 of assembly 250 as 
well as the pistons of the drawbar assembly used to extend such pistons 
and holding the drawbar assembly and the wheel support frame assemblies in 
desired position by locking or closing the hydraulic control valve thereto 
(as 96) in hold position and so holding such wheel support frames 
assemblies and drawbar assemblies in desired extended position. 
To provide the best tracking characteristics, at a given slope of road (as 
shown by angle between plane 66,4 and surface of road 66 in FIG. 9) which 
is usually the most severe slope expected to be met during travel of the 
empty bin assembly 29 the wheel assemblies are extended and walls 291 and 
294 are raised by the hydraulic assembly 99 over the ground supporting the 
wheel assemblies as above described so that the walls 291 and 294 will be 
vertical in such expected worst condition, as when moving the bin assembly 
along one side of a sloped road and it is to be moved further to the side 
to allow other vehicles to pass. Such raising is done prior to initial 
transport or may be effected during transport by an operator on platform 
125 during such transport of the bin assembly. 
Accordingly, in usual travel over a crowned road at a downward and lateral 
slope less than the worst expected, the lateral wall of the bin and the 
central wall are parallel to each other and both are directed upwardly at 
an angle less than 90.degree.from a horizontal plane as 90.1 located 
between the inner and outer wall by one to three degrees (1.degree. to 
3.degree.). The vertical positioning of the side walls provided by the 
selective and adjustable extensibility of the wheels (and wheel support 
assemblies) attached thereto substantially increases the effective 
strength and dimensional stability of those walls in the vertical plane 
and make transport of the assembly 29 on sloped or crowned country roads 
controllable, rapid and safe. However, a small (1.degree. to 3.degree.) 
tilt centrally is toleratable and improves control along roads although at 
a slight but negligible decrease in vertical rigidity. Such minor tilting 
of the bin usually is also used to tilt the bin walls upward and towards a 
direction from which wind is coming when the bin 29 is drawn on a road in 
a direction transverse to direction of a crosswind. During such travel 
along a transversely downwardly sloped road, where the central wall as 293 
and wall frame 316 are spaced at a lesser height from the road therebelow 
than the lateral wall as 291 and wall frame as 317 in assembly 29, the 
differential in height over the sloped road as 66 (FIG. 9) of the lateral 
and central wall frames produced by the difference in vertical extension 
of the wheel and wheel support frames of bin assembly 29 from frame 300 is 
not counteracted and vitiated by the lack of vertical dimensional 
stability of the walls and, also, such differential in vertical extension 
of the wheels and wheel support frames is accomplished with a minimum 
increase of the total height of the assembly 29 during its travel along a 
usual crowned country road; in particular, this structure of bin assembly 
permits passing under overpasses where a maximum permissible vertical 
height of vehicle to pass thereunder limits vehicle height. The rigidity 
of the bin frame in the vertical direction results from the cooperation of 
the height of the panels 221, and 293 used as very deep although thin 
beams to which stress is transferred by the vertically extending members 
as 301-314 and 321-332. As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 12, 14, and 18, the 
railing as 127.1 and 127.2 and control panel 128 are close to but below 
the upper edge of frame 300. 
After such travel of the bin assembly 29 over a road as 66 while connected 
to and behind a tractor as 28, the bin assembly 29 is drawn by the tractor 
28 to a site in a cultivated field, as in FIG. 5, whereat harvesters as 51 
may transfer grain to the bin assembly compartment 55. During such 
off-the-road travel to such site in a cultivated field, the hydraulic 
system 99, especially valves 91, 92, and 96 is activated by an operator as 
127 at panel 128 to extend the piston shafts of the wheel and support 
assemblies, as shafts 36, 163, or 252 of assemblies 70, 170 or 259 
respectively, and firmly locate the wheels of such assemblies at the 
maximum vertical extension position thereof as well as bring the drawbar 
assembly positioning pistons to a position of the front end of frame 300 
(e g member 122) corresponding to a substantially horizontal position of 
the lower members as 121 and 123 of the frame assembly 300, This actuation 
of the hydraulic assembly 99 and assemblies connected thereto extends the 
bin frame to its maximum height of about 10 inches over the surface of the 
usually rough ground found in cultivated fields and raises the bin walls 
from the somewhat lower road travel position of the unequally and less 
vertically extended position of wheel and wheel support assemblies. Such 
raised position of the bin frame improves maneuverability of the bin 
assembly 29. 
After the bin assembly 29 is located at its site of intended operation as 
in FIG. 5 the hydraulic system control valves 91, 92, and 96 are then 
manipulated to retract the piston shafts of the wheel and wheel support 
assemblies and the wheels of those wheel and wheel support assemblies are 
withdrawn from a position extending beyond the frame and supporting the 
bin compartment as in FIGS. 3 and 16 to a position within the vertical 
outline thereof as in FIGS. 4, 16, and 25, whereupon the lower beams of 
121 and 123 of the truss framework of bin 29 rest on the ground as shown 
in FIGS. 4, 5, 7, 17, and 25. 
After the bin assembly 29 is located at the site of its intended operation 
as a holding bin, a conventional harvester or field truck carriers as 51 
with carrier compartment grain capacity of 18,000 to 20,000 pounds of 
grain, gather crops from a field. A driver, as 59.1 in such carrier 
locates the carrier adjacent assembly 29 and deposits the grain 53 or 
other crop carried in the carrier 51 as by a chute 52 therein, into the 
bin compartment 55, as diagrammatically shown in FIG. 5. The bin 
compartment has a large capacity e.g. over 130,000 pounds of grain which 
is a very large multiple of the field carrier capacity and provides for a 
substantially uninterruptable repository for discharge of the contents of 
the field carriers rather than depend on use of road transport type 
vehicles or trucks for such holding: aside from the potential 
interruptability of availability of such trucks or vehicles as 
repositories for the materials carried by the field carriers, the economic 
cost of paying drivers of such trucks while waiting for such trucks to be 
filled is a detriment avoided by the use of the bin assembly 29. 
By operation of the auger assembly 245, which is pivotally movable above 
the vertically extending axis of central longitudinal axis of the central 
auger 81 (and tube 117), successive increments of the volume of grain 58 
are transferred from bin compartment 55 (by the operator 127 operating 
auger 82 or 83 and 81 and 270) to open-topped containers as 240 on 
vehicles as 56 while such vehicle as 56 are stationary. 
The operator 127 positions the auger assembly 245 by operating hydraulic 
control valve 272 to locate the auger assembly with its outlet orifice 242 
extending transversely from and laterally of the bin compartment 55: its 
horizontal distance from axle of auger 81 to center of discharge orifice 
242 of auger assembly 245 is 8 to 12 feet. The operator 127 using the 
control valves of panel 128 drives material as grain 58 from the bin 
compartment 55 along auger 82 or 83 to auger 81 and therefrom to the 
chamber within auger tube 241, thence by auger 270 (driven by motor 249 
and controlled at hydraulic control valve 271) to discharge orifice 242. 
The auger outlet orifice 242 may be moved intermittently or continuously 
along a circular path 243 overlying the top of the bin compartment 240; 
such curved path of travel 243 extends along the length of the open-topped 
carrier chamber 240 of the truck 56. Accordingly, when the truck 56 parks 
parallel to bin compartment 55 with the middle of carrier chamber 240 
located closely adjacent bin compartment 50 so that vertical plane 
transverse to the length of chamber 55 passing through the auger 61 also 
passes through a vertical plane equidistant from the front and rear of 
carrier compartment, 240 the material passed from chamber 55 to chamber 
240 will have an even maximum top height from front to rear of the carrier 
when the distance from front to rear of that carrier compartment is not 
greater than twice the horizontal length of auger 245. The weight carried 
by usual 20 feet long grain carriers 56 is about 30,000 lbs. of grain: 
accordingly the holding bin assembly 29, even when only one half full, 
holds a substantial multiple of the volume to load any such one truck as 
56 and therefore provides a steady source of transportable material for 
such trucks with an absence of delay in filling such trucks because of the 
usual waiting for each of a series of small volume containers as are 
carried by the field carriers as 51 to fill such trucks. 
The bin assembly 29 is used to mix the grain in chamber 55 continuously 
between periods of discharge therefrom; with the central auger apparatus 
of FIGS. 10 and 11 mixing is effected by passage of grain from front 
portion of chamber 55 to its center along augers 82 and 83 and vice versa 
and with gravity providing flow from center to the bin compartment end.