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SELF-PROPELLED HAULAGE VEHICLE

  • US 3,809,262 A
  • Filed: 09/27/1972
  • Issued: 05/07/1974
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1971
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for loading a haulage vehicle comprising, moving the material haulage portion of said vehicle to a location adjacent a pile of particulate material, lowering a loading gate pivotally secured to a first hopper portion to a level adjacent the base of said pile of particulate material, advancing said loading gate and a first hopper portion into said pile of particulate material while maintaining a second hopper portion stationary to fill said first hopper portion with said particulate material from said pile, retracting said loading gate and said first hopper portion and transferring said particulate material in said first hopper portion into said second hopper portion to load said second hopper portion, thereafter advancing said loading gate and said first hopper portion into said pile of particulate material to fill said first hopper portion, advancing said second hopper portion forwardly on a third hopper portion prior to loading of said second hopper portion from said first hopper portion, and retracting said second hopper portion on said third hopper portion after said particulate material in said first hopper portion is transferred to said second hopper portion.

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