Patent ID: 6893202

Claim:
A dual purpose two-wheeled cart adapted for attachment to a rear end of a tow vehicle for movement along the ground, the dual purpose cart adapted to receive granular crop production from a combine and transfer same to a transport vehicle, and adapted to transport granular agricultural products to an air-seeder cart, the dual purpose cart comprising: a hoppered container having a floor sloping downward and inward from walls of the container to a central sump; a frame comprising a rear frame portion supporting the hoppered container, and a front frame portion extending forward from the rear frame portion and having a front end forward of and below the rear frame portion; a hitch on the front end of the front frame portion adapted for attachment to the rear end of the tow vehicle; a port located below the rear frame portion and oriented substantially upright and generally facing a first side of the dual purpose cart to allow granular agricultural products to flow out of the sump onto the ground beneath the hoppered container and towards the first side of the dual purpose cart; a gate operable to open and close the port; a pair of wheels rotatably mounted on the frame on a common rotational axis, such that the rotational axis is located below the rear frame portion and rearward of the port; wherein an access area below the port, ahead of the port, and to the first side of the port, is unobstructed, such that a conventional filling conveyor mounted on the air-seeder cart can be positioned in front of a wheel on the first side of the dual purpose cart with an intake hopper thereof resting on the ground under the port such that granular agricultural products flowing out of the port can be received by the intake hopper prior to landing on the ground; and an unloading conveyor attached to the hoppered container such that the unloading conveyor is operable to move agricultural products from the sump to a conveyor discharge located on an exterior of the container at a location oriented the agricultural products into the transport vehicle.