APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND DISTRIBUTING PARTICULATE MATERIAL

摘要

A vehicle trailer (14) including a tip bucket assembly (16) suspended between the upper ends of a pair of elongate arms (32) whose lower ends are secured to and rotatable with a generally horizontal shaft (30) supported on the chassis of the trailer. The trailer includes means (38, 42, 44) for imparting rotation to the shaft. The tip bucket assembly comprises two separable clam shell shaped sections (20, 22) moveable between a first position in which their adjacent sides abut to define a unitary tip bucket assembly and a second position in which they separate to define two clam shell shaped sections.