Container for transporting and placing flowable material

• US 5,885,053 A
• Filed: 05/14/1996
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Loegering Manufacturing Incorporated (Manitex International, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: JS Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Deye, Martin Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Underwood, Donald W.
• Application Number:
  US08/647,560
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 414/607, 414/608, 414/722, 414/725, 414/912, 414/920, 222/256, 222/258, 220/908, 220/656-659, 220/213, 141/108, 141/339
• US Class Current: 414/722
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/3414 the arms being pivoted at the rear of the vehicle chassis, e.g. skid steer loader
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/40 Dippers; Buckets ; Grab devices, e.g. manufacturing processes for buckets, form, geometry or material of buckets devices to connect tools to arms or booms E02F3/3604; teeth therefor E02F9/28
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/4075 Dump doors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/025 Buckets specially adapted for use with concrete

Abstract

A container for transporting and placing materials, such as concrete, grains, landscaping material, etc. includes a container mounted on a mounting plate of a skid steer loader so that the container may be raised and lowered by using the lift arms of the loader and may be pivoted relative to the lift arms. The container includes an open top defining a fill opening for receiving the material to be dispensed. The rear wall of the container includes appropriate brackets to the mounting plate of the loader, and the front wall includes a dispensing opening and chute, leading from the opening and a manually operable gate for controlling flowing material through the chute. The front wall also includes converging sections which cooperate with the dispensing opening to define a funnel directing flowing material through the dispensing opening.

Claims

1. Container for transporting and placing flowable material comprising a housing having a rear wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a fill opening for receiving material deposited into said container, and means mounted on said rear wall for securing said container to a transport vehicle capable of raising and tilting said container, said front wall including converging sections converging toward one another to define a converging portion of said container, a discharge opening defined between said converging sections for discharging material from said container when the container is tilted, and a spigot for controlling flow of said material through said discharge opening, said converging portion including an inlet area between corresponding ends of said converging portions, the cross sectional area of said inlet area being substantially greater than the cross sectional area of said discharge opening whereby the weight of said material in said container acting across said inlet area forces the material through said discharge opening when the container is tilted to discharge the material from the container through said discharge opening, a pair of opposite end walls extending between said rear wall and a corresponding one of said converging sections, said rear wall, said front wall, and said end walls defining said fill opening in said container opposite said bottom wall for receiving said material when the container is filled, said rear wall diverging from said front wall as the rear wall extends from said fill opening to a joining edge joining said rear wall to said bottom wall.

2. Container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said joining edge includes a beveled surface.