VIBRATORY TYPE STORAGE BIN ARRANGEMENT WITH LOW PROFILE BOTTOM AND RECTILINEAR DISCHARGE CHUTE CHARACTERISTICS

摘要

A storage bin arrangement especially suited for bulk solid material storing and discharge in accordance with impelled retrieving concepts, 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 vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more inverted cone inserts applied internally thereof in spaced relation above the bin low profile bottom section, and in a second embodiment, a bin actuator having the features indicated above is mounted below a large discharge opening in a conventional stationary bin, while responding to the same type of helical vibration to effect both material discharge from the bin free of excess headroom; either embodiment can also eliminate space consuming pant leg type discharge chutes, and provide for optional divided flow of the bulk solid materials therefrom.