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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Kevin J. Pierce, Grand Forks, ND (US);
Michael J. Pierce, Grand Forks, ND (US);
Karen Dufault, East Grand Forks, MN (US);
Wayne A. Pierce, East Grand Forks, MN (US);
Other;
Abstract
The invention is a mobile bin with two conveyors with each mounted on a main frame and with the main frame having wheels for rotatably supporting the vehicle along the ground. The bin has an opening along its bottom and the first belt conveyor is mounted beneath the opening in the bin and its remote ends extend to the opposite ends of the bin. A second elongated belt conveyor pivotally mounted about a vertical axis on the main frame of the bin vehicle from a storage position parallel in length to and beside and below the first belt conveyor to different positions laterally in length to the first belt conveyor with it one end remaining below and now beneath the one end of the first belt conveyor, said second belt conveyor being further pivotable about its one end on said mean frame to raise and lower the other end of the second belt conveyor while its one end remains below and beneath the one end of the first belt conveyor, whereby material may be conveyed from the bin opening by the first conveyor to its one end and then conveyed onto the second conveyor beneath the one end of the first conveyor whereupon it may be conveyed by the second conveyor laterally outward or laterally outward and upward from the one end of the first conveyor.