Liftable grout hopper and dispenser

• US 6,112,955 A
• Filed: 02/02/1999
• Issued: 09/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Damian Lang
• Original Assignee: Damian Lang
• Inventors: Lang, Damian
• Primary Examiner(s): Derakshani, Philippe
• Application Number:
  US09/241,813
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 222/168, 222/413, 222/626, 222/529, 222/608, 198/672, 198/550.01, 241/260.1
• US Class Current: 222/626
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/025 Buckets specially adapted for use with concrete
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/20 for applying mortar
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 13/005 comprising a screw conveyor

Abstract

A grout hopper and dispenser which may be raised on a fork lift so that grout may be placed in a concrete block wall. The grout hopper and dispenser includes an auger in the bottom thereof which forces the grout out through a tube which is connected to a flexible tube which is used by the workman in directing the grout to the appropriate location. The auger may be remotely controlled by the operator of the forklift truck which has lifted the grout hopper and dispenser into position.

Claims

1. A grout dispenser comprising:

(a) a grout hopper having four sides of substantially equal length joined together at corners to form a hopper chamber having an opening facing in a first direction, and wherein two of said hopper sides are disposed with lower ends closer together than upper ends forming a narrowed, bottom region of the hopper;

(b) an elongated tube mounted to a first end of said hopper near the narrowed region of the hopper and extending longitudinally away from said hopper to a first tube end;

(c) an aperture formed in a sidewall of said tube, said aperture facing in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction that the opening of the hopper faces;

(d) a flexible hose mounted to the tube at the aperture, permitting fluid communication between a hose interior and a tube interior;

(e) an auger removably mounted in the hopper and the tube, said auger extending through the tube and within the narrowed region of the hopper to be drivingly linked to a means for rotating the auger, said rotating means mounted at a second, opposite hopper end for rotating said auger to move grout from the narrowed region of said hopper, through said tube and through the aperture in said tube into said flexible hose; and

(f) an auger removal cap mounted on the first tube end opposite the rotating means, wherein said cap is removably mounted to said tube for permitting removal of said auger from said tube through the first tube end.

2. A grout dispenser in accordance with claim 1, wherein the aperture is formed near the first tube end.

3. A grout dispenser in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a clean-out aperture formed in the tube near the first tube end.