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Patent No.:
CA 2438052 C
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Pud. Date:
Aug. 29, 2002
Discharge chute control system
Systeme de commande de goulotte d'evacuation
Applicant:
Mcneilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc., Dodge Center, MN (US);
Inventors:
Thomas J. Harris, , US;
Ted M. Daly, , US;
Assignee:
MCNEILUS TRUCK AND MANUFACTURING, INC., Dodge Center, MN (US);
Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B28C 5/42 (2006.01); B65G 11/12 (2006.01);
Abstract
A motor driven discharge chute control system for automatically controllingthe lateral position of a concrete discharge chute (24) associated with atransit mixer vehicle (10) is disclosed including a reversing motor (144)connected to an output gear (158) normally engaged to rotate with the motor(144) through a gear reducer (64). A rotating chute swing gear (74) is drivenby the output gear (158) rotates a connected pivot assembly (50) that carriesone end of a discharge chute. A manual override system (71, 72) is alsoprovided.