Patent ID: 8328497

Claim:
A grain cart adapted to be pivotally connected to a tow tractor for transferring grain from a combine moving in a field to an open-top trailer, said cart comprising a frame supported by a set of wheels, a container supported by said frame and defining a chamber for receiving a volume of grain, said container including a right side wall and a left side wall each inclined upwardly and laterally outwardly from a bottom wall and connected by a front wall and a rear wall with at least said right side wall and said left side wall converging downwardly to a grain removal zone, an elongated auger conveyor including a power driven auger within a housing and having a lower section pivotally connected to an upper section with said lower section of said auger conveyor positioned to receive grain from said grain removal zone, said upper section of said auger conveyor supported for folding movement between a retracted stored position adjacent said container and an operating position projecting upwardly and laterally outwardly from said container, said container further including an elongated right side wall extension panel pivotally connected to an upper portion of said right side wall substantially below a top edge of an extension of said left side wall, said extension panel pivotable between a retracted position within said chamber between said front wall and said rear wall and an inclined extended position projecting laterally outwardly and upwardly from said upper portion of said right side wall for directing grain into said chamber, at least one brace assembly connected to support said extension panel in said inclined extended position, said brace assembly being movable to provide for supporting said extension panel in said retracted position within said chamber, and said grain cart including end panels releasably connecting opposite end portions of said extension panel to said front wall and said rear wall in said extended position of said extension panel for confining grain received on said extension panel between said end panels.