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Nathan L Baker

Brandon H Woolley

Randall D Peterson

Henry A Baker

Jonathan Wayne Wittwer

Joel Brian Mundt

K S Mortensen

Joseph Chryst Walker

Jesse Tate Olson

Brian Douglas Gate

An accessory mount for a gun is described having an attachment plate, a rail and a deflector plate for deflecting cartridge cases ejected from the gun. The deflector plate is mounted on an arm for positioning the deflector plate between the ejection port on the receiver of the gun and the rail on the accessory mount.

Rail mount

A softwall mining method and device. Each of a plurality of mining devices comprise a supporting portion, an earth moving portion and a coupling mechanism for advancing the earth moving portion into a mining face, and for advancing the supporting portion toward the earth moving portion. Supporting portions of the devices are locked together to anchor movement of the earth moving portions, and earth moving portions of the devices are separately locked together to anchor the movement of the supporting portions.

Softwall mining method and device

A method and related apparatus is provided for size reduction and separation of soil clods mixed with a root crop. The method includes the steps of feeding the mixture along an enclosed operative path, manipulating the mixture so as to change the shape of the conveyed mass and break up the soil clods sufficiently to reduce the size and separating the clods from the crop. The manipulation preferably takes the form of shifting the clods longitudinally and laterally with respect to each other. The operative path is preferably serpentine in shape with the clods/crop expanding along the outside of bends and contracting along the inside of bends. The serpentine path is oriented in a substantially vertical direction and may provide differential speeds along the boundaries of the path. The optimum mixture is approximately 50% soil clods at the entry end, with the range being between 35% and 65%. The preferred apparatus includes a pair of endless conveyor belts guided by horizontally extending rollers and retaining panels positioned in juxtaposition with the edges of the conveyors along the operative runs. Spring loaded idler rollers maintain the conveyors taut and an endless chain conveyor downstream of the exit end of the serpentine path separates the reduced clods from the root crop.

Method for soil clod/root crop separation

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Lehi, UT, United States of America

Nathan L Baker