Portable feed grinder-mixer
First Claim
1. A feed grinder-mixer comprising:
- (a) a vehicle;
(b) feed grinding mechanism mounted on said vehicle;
(c) a mixing bin carried by said vehicle and connected to said feed grinding mechanism in ground feed-receiving relation;
(d) first power-driven mixing mechanism in communication with the interior of said bin and constructed and arranged to move and mix such ground feed in a circulatory path in a generally horizontal plane;
(e) second power-driven mixing mechanism mounted within said bin directly above and in close ground-feed-receiving relation with said first mixing mechanism and being constructed and arranged immediately above said first mechanism in close proximity thereto so as to move, mix and cross-mix such ground feed in a circulatory path in a generally vertical plane, which path intersects said horizontal circulatory path;
(f) power-driven unloading mechanism connected to said bin in ground-feed-receiving relation for conveying the ground-feed away therefrom after it has been so mixed by said mixing mechanisms.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a vehicle carrying a grinder-mixer providing a low bin profile and improved mixing through the use of complementing horizontal and vertical circulatory paths of the ground feed, which is produced by a pair of cooperating parallel auger conveyors extending in a horizontal plane along the bottom of the mixing bin in side by side relationship and rotating so as to move the feed in opposite directions, each feeding the other, in cooperation with a pair of vertical cooperating augers spaced axially of the horizontal augers and moving and mixing the ground feed along a circulatory path in vertical planes, the said horizontal and vertical circulatory paths intersecting to thereby greatly increase the mixing action. One of the horizontal augers is connected to a discharging system and is reversible to cooperate with the latter to empty the bin.
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28 Claims
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1. A feed grinder-mixer comprising:
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(a) a vehicle; (b) feed grinding mechanism mounted on said vehicle; (c) a mixing bin carried by said vehicle and connected to said feed grinding mechanism in ground feed-receiving relation; (d) first power-driven mixing mechanism in communication with the interior of said bin and constructed and arranged to move and mix such ground feed in a circulatory path in a generally horizontal plane; (e) second power-driven mixing mechanism mounted within said bin directly above and in close ground-feed-receiving relation with said first mixing mechanism and being constructed and arranged immediately above said first mechanism in close proximity thereto so as to move, mix and cross-mix such ground feed in a circulatory path in a generally vertical plane, which path intersects said horizontal circulatory path; (f) power-driven unloading mechanism connected to said bin in ground-feed-receiving relation for conveying the ground-feed away therefrom after it has been so mixed by said mixing mechanisms. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A ground-feed mixer comprising:
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(a) a bin constructed and arranged to receive ground-feed therein; (b) first power-driven feed-mixing mechanism connected with said bin and constructed and arranged to engage, move and mix such ground-feed in a circulatory path in a generally horizontal plane along the bottom of said bin; and (c) second power driven feed-mixing mechanism mounted within said bin, in ground-feed-receiving relation with said first mixing mechanism, and being constructed and arranged directly above and in close proximity to said first feed mixing mechanism to cooperatively move, mix and cross-mix such ground-feed from that horizontal plane, in a circulatory path in a generally vertical plane to the upper portions of said bin; (d) said horizontal and vertical paths of circulation of ground feed intersecting whereby the feed moved by said mechanisms are cross-mixed. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. The method of mixing ground feed within a bin having vertically extending upper sidewalls and having lower sidewalls sloping downwardly and inwardly therefrom, comprising:
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(a) moving and mixing portions of such ground feed within said bin and circulating the same in an annular circulation along a generally horizontal plane adjacent the lower portions of said bin sidewalls and along the periphery thereof while (b) simultaneously and separately moving and mixing portions of such ground feed from said horizontal annular circulation directly upwardly therefrom along a generally vertical plane from a position directly above the horizontal annular circulation of such first portions to the upper and outermore areas of the bin and thence downwardly along the sloping sidewalls of the bin into the generally horizontal annular circulation of such first portions. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of mixing ground feed within a bin comprising:
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(a) augering portions of such ground feed in a horizontal annular circulation along a generally horizontal plane adjacent the bottom of the bin, while (b) simultaneously and separately augering at least some of such portions of such feed upwardly and outwardly from a position directly above the annular circulation of such first portions of ground feed to the upper and outermore areas of the bin and in a generally vertical annular circulation along a vertical plane disposed directly above the horizontal annular circulation, and (c) augering such ground feed so as to cause said annular circulations to intersect and such feed to cross-mix between said paths.
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28. A method of mixing ground feed within a bin comprising:
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(a) mechanically moving and mixing portions of such ground feed in an annular circulation along a generally horizontal plane adjacent the bottom of the bin, while (b) simultaneousely and separately mechanically moving and mixing portions of such moved ground feed from a position directly above said annular circulation directly upwardly and outwardly in an annular circulation along a vertical plane, said position being within the horizontal annular circulation of such first portions of such ground feed and such first portions moving to a second and relatively remote position within said horizontal annular circulation.
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