Vehicle for loading, transportation and unloading of bulk cargo

• US 3,226,857 A
• Filed: 09/28/1964
• Issued: 01/04/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David M. Reed, Paul D. Borders, Paul F. Porter
• Original Assignee: David M. Reed, Paul D. Borders, Paul F. Porter
• Inventors: Porter, Paul F., Borders, Paul D., Reed, David M.
• Application Number:
  US04/399,446
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• US Class Current: 37/442
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/34 with bucket-arms , i.e. a pair of arms, e.g. manufacturing processes, form, geometry, material of bucket-arms with a single arm E02F3/283 directly pivoted on the frames of tractors or self-propelled machines
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/3486 Buckets discharging overhead into a container mounted on the machine
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/961 with several digging elements or tools mounted on one machine for backhoes E02F3/964 takes precedence

Claims

1. A VEHICLE FOR THE LOADING, HAULING, AND DISCHARGE OF MATERIAL FROM A SUBTERRANEAN MINE OR THE LIKE HAVING A LOW CEILING, THE VEHICLE COMPRISING:

AN ELONGATED FRAME, INCLUDING A PAIR OF FRAME SIDE MEMBERS, AND PLURAL CROSS MEMBERS, AND INCLUDING SIDE WALLS;

FORWARD AND REAR DECKS ON THE FRAME;

A FORWARD AXLE, INCLUDING A DIFFERENTIAL ASSEMBLY, CONNECTED TO THE FRAME SIDE MEMBERS, AND INCLUDING GROUND WHEELS;

MEANS, INCLUDING A THREADED ROD AND BRACKET AND A CONNECTION MEMBER SECURED TO THE FORWARD AXLE AT EACH FRAME SIDE MEMBER, FOR VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE FRAME AND THE FORWARD AXLE;

AN ELECTRICAL MOTOR ON THE FORWARD DECK;

SPEED REDUCTION MEANS ON THE FORWARD DECK OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOTOR;

SHAFT MEANS CONNECTING THE SPEED REDUCTION MEANS TO THE DIFFERENTIAL ASSEMBLY;

A PLURALITY OF STORAGE BATTERIES ON THE FRAME CONNECTED, IN SERIES, TO THE MOTOR;

A REAR, STEERING AXLE, INCLUDING UPSTANDING CONNECTION EARS WITH ELONGATED SLOTS FORMED THEREIN, AND GROUND WHEELS;

A PLATE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM EACH OF THE FRAME SIDE WALLS AND HAVING A BOLT PROJECTING OUTWARDLY THEREFROM AND ENGAGED IN THE RESPECTIVE SLOTS OF THE CONNECTION EARS;

A NUT FOR EACH BOLT TO CLAMP THE PLATES AND EARS TO ONE ANOTHER AT SELECTED HEIGHTS OF THE FRAME RELATIVE TO THE STEERING AXLE;

A RIDING PALLET SECURED TO THE REAR DECK;

A STEERING CONTROL ON THE REAR DECK OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE GROUND WHEELS OF THE STEERING AXLE;

AN OPEN SCOOP INCLUDING A REAR WALL HAVING A TOP EDGE, A BOTTOM WALL, SIDE WALLS, AND UPRIGHT RIGIDIFYING GUSSET PLATES, FORWARDLY OF THE VEHICLE;

AN ARM EXTENDING FORWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY FROM EACH OF THE FRAME SIDE MEMBERS, EACH ARM INCLUDING AN OUTER END;

SPACED PAIRS OF CONNECTION PLATES EXTENDING FROM THE SCOOP REAR WALL ADJACENT THE BOTTOM WALL AND BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE OUTER ENDS OF THE ARMS;

EXTENSIBLE AND RETRACTABLE HYDRAULIC CYLINDERS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE SCOOP REAR WALL ADJACENT ITS TOP EDGE, AND CONNECTED TO THE FRAME SIDE WALLS, WHEREBY UPON EXTENSION AND RETRACTION THE SCOOP IS VERTICALLY PIVOTED ABOUT THE OUTER ENDS OF THE ARMS;

AN HYDRAULIC PUMP AND RESERVOIR ON THE FORWARD DECK CONNECTED TO THE MOTOR AND TO THE CYLINDERS;

AND HYDRAULIC CONTROLS ON THE REAR DECK CONNECTED TO THE CYLINDERS.