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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2010
William Spencer Guthrie, Provo, UT (US);
John M. Coyle, Farmington, UT (US);
David Odell Anderson, Bluffdale, UT (US);
Charles Hope, Provo, UT (US);
William Spencer Guthrie, Provo, UT (US);
John M. Coyle, Farmington, UT (US);
David Odell Anderson, Bluffdale, UT (US);
Charles Hope, Provo, UT (US);
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for distributing a slurry can include a trough configured to be removably attached to a discharge chute of a ready-mix truck and receive a slurry discharged therefrom where the trough has a front including a flange configured to extend under the discharge chute. The apparatus can include an enclosed basin connected to a lower end of the trough proximate to a midpoint of the enclosed basin and an aperture defined within the enclosed basin and configured to enable the slurry to flow from the trough into the enclosed basin. The enclosed basin can include at least one covered access port where the at least one covered access port is configured to be opened and configured to be closed. The apparatus can include a plurality of drainage nozzles disposed along a bottom of the enclosed basin and configured to distribute the slurry to a plurality of locations.