VIBRATORY TYPE STORAGE BIN ARRANGEMENT WITH INTERNAL BAFFLING AND LOW PROFILE BOTTOM

摘要

A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically, 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more off center located, vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more internally applied baffles, either of inverted cone type or one or more rows or levels of internally applied centerless, radial, sidewall mounted type, in spaced relation, above the bin low profile bottom section, and in a second embodiment, a bin actuator having the features indicated above that is mounted below a large discharge opening in a conventional stationary bin, while responding to the same type of helical vibration to effect both types of material discharge from the bin free of excess beadroom; either embodiment can also eliminate vertical space consuming pant leg type discharge chutes, and provide for optional divided flow of the bulk solid materials therefrom.