Patent ID: 8776844

Claim:
An apparatus for diverting the flow of bulk solids into a bin from a discharge of a bulk solids conveyor, the apparatus comprising: (a) a fitting for removable attachment to a discharge of a bulk solids conveyor, the fitting having a vertical conduit; (b) a frame connected to the fitting, the frame having a vertical conduit communicating with the vertical conduit of the fitting, the frame also having four side walls, each with an opening; (c) four baffles that pivot on rotating shafts in the openings of the side walls of the frame, each baffle being capable of variable positioning between a first substantially vertical position that opens the vertical conduit of the frame to allow any bulk solids flowing into the diverter to flow out of the diverter without a change in direction and a second substantially horizontal position that at least partially closes the vertical conduit of the frame to cause a portion of any bulk solids flowing into the diverter to be diverted outward; and (d) a drive motor to rotate the baffles.