Apparatus for metering and mixing aggregate and cement

• US 5,785,420 A
• Filed: 04/28/1997
• Issued: 07/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David A. Schuff
• Original Assignee: David A. Schuff
• Inventors: Schuff, David A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cooley, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US08/848,143
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 366/16, 366/20, 366/21, 366/33, 366/35, 366/37, 366/38, 366/45, 366/46, 366/47, 366/177.1, 366/181.1, 366/181.3, 366/182.1, 366/185
• US Class Current: 366/20
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 27/2123 Shafts with both stirring means and feeding or discharging means
• CPC Class Codes: B28C 5/1215 Independent stirrer-drive units, e.g. portable or mounted on a wheelbarrow
• CPC Class Codes: B28C 5/142 the stirrer shaft carrying screw-blades
• CPC Class Codes: B28C 7/003 Heating, e.g. using steam
• CPC Class Codes: B28C 7/0454 Volumetric measuring devices, e.g. for consecutively delivering predetermined volumes of ingredients
• CPC Class Codes: B28C 7/06 Supplying the solid ingredients, e.g. by means of endless conveyors or jigging conveyors

Abstract

Portable metering and mixing apparatus includes a trailer having a hopper thereon divided into two compartments, one compartment for sand material and another compartment for cementitious material. Screw conveyor assemblies, or auger assemblies, receive the materials and convey the materials to a mixer assembly. Different embodiments are disclosed. One embodiment includes a mixing chamber aligned with an auger assembly and to which the mixing chamber materials are fed directly. Another embodiment discloses a separate mixer assembly to which the materials are conveyed by a pair of auger assemblies.

Claims

1. Mixing apparatus, comprising, in combination:

a first chamber for holding first material to be mixed;

a second chamber for holding second material to be mixed;

a partition between the first and second chambers;

mixer means for mixing the first and second materials;

means for conveying the first and second materials to the mixer means; and

vane feeder means in the second chamber for metering the second material to the means for conveying the first and second materials to the mixer means, including

a vane feeder having a rotatable shaft and a rotor secured to the shaft and openings in the rotor through which the second material moves as the shaft and the rotor rotate, and

a plurality of arms secured to the shaft and spring ends secured to and rotatable with the arms remote from the shaft which bend as the spring ends contact the partition and straighten as the arms rotate away from the partition to provide a maximum length for the arms for agitating the second material.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 which the means for conveying the first and second materials includes a first auger.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 in which the means for conveying the first and second materials includes a second auger.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the means for conveying the first and second materials to the mixer means includes a first auger assembly for conveying the first material and a second auger assembly for conveying the second material.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the mixer means includes a mixing chamber, and the means for conveying the first and second materials to the mixer means includes a first auger extending to the mixing chamber.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 in which the means for conveying the first and second materials includes a second auger extending to the mixing chamber.