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Apparatus for supplying wood fiber material to a pulp paper plant through a single off-loading station

  • US 4,221,520 A
  • Filed: 06/19/1978
  • Issued: 09/09/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for receiving, segregating, and temporarily storing material transferred at an elevated position from a receiver box of a rotary railroad car dumper, the material being one of at least two forms, the material also being expelled from the dumper along an unloading axis, the apparatus comprising:

  • (a) stationary platform means including(i) a horizontally disposed planar deck member for supporting simultaneously the at least two different forms of material expelled,(ii) means for supporting said deck member substantially at the elevation of the receiver box;

    (b) means for coupling the receiver box to said platform means for guiding material being expelled onto said deck member;

    (c) means cooperating with said platform means and said coupling means for plowing the expelled material along said deck member in a selectable one of a plurality of directions, the dimensions of the deck member in each of said plurality of directions being sufficient to store temporarily the segregated material.

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