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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2018
The Taylor Group, Inc., Louisville, MS (US);
Matthew Craig Hillyer, Louisville, MS (US);
Richard Warren Patterson, Preston, MS (US);
David Todd Palmer, Starkville, MS (US);
Quinton Frank Stevenson, Louisville, MS (US);
The Taylor Group, Inc., Louisville, MS (US);
Abstract
A system for transporting a proppant for fracking may include a transport vehicle, a proppant container, a container clutch part, and a floating clutch part. The transport vehicle may include a carriage having forks for engaging fork pockets of the proppant container. The proppant container may house proppant releasable using a release gate and actuator. The container clutch part may be connected to the proppant container and configured to transfer rotational movement to the actuator. The floating clutch part may be connected to the carriage of the transport vehicle and configured to engage and selectively rotate the container clutch part when the forks engage the fork pockets. The forks and fork pockets vary in size which leads to a potential for misalignment between the container and floating clutch parts. The floating clutch part is vertically and laterally positionable to compensate for misalignments between the container and floating clutch parts.