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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1978
Filed:
May. 05, 1977
James H Hodgson, Vinton, IA (US);
Chromalloy American Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A flail type manure spreader is provided with a hood that is mounted for bodily movement transversely of the spreader container between a first position in which its discharge side is generally contiguous to the discharge side of the container and a second position in which it straddles the other side of the container. The hood has end walls outside the container end walls that have rollers near the hood discharge side which ride in tracks on the container end walls, and the second side of the hood is carried on links which are mounted on a torsion tube that extends the length of the container. A hydraulic piston is operatively connected to one of the links to move the hood. Overlapping portions of the container end walls and the hood end walls make an effective seal located internally of the tracks, to protect the tracks and rollers from being fouled.