AU2014100118A4 - A delivery cart for filling agricultural, woodchips and mineral sandparticulate from a bulk storage tank/silo to a freight container - Google Patents

A delivery cart for filling agricultural, woodchips and mineral sandparticulate from a bulk storage tank/silo to a freight container Download PDF

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AU2014100118A4
AU2014100118A4 AU2014100118A AU2014100118A AU2014100118A4 AU 2014100118 A4 AU2014100118 A4 AU 2014100118A4 AU 2014100118 A AU2014100118 A AU 2014100118A AU 2014100118 A AU2014100118 A AU 2014100118A AU 2014100118 A4 AU2014100118 A4 AU 2014100118A4
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A delivery cart for filling particulate from a storage location to a freight container supportable on a transport truck, said cart including, a ground engaging and drivable wheel means to position the cart between the storage location and the freight container to be loaded, said wheels adapted to move the cart relative to the container during the filling process, a horizontal, extendable feeder conduit, said feeder conduit elevatable to a loading position, said feeder conduit in communication with a sensing device for detecting pressure build up of the particulate against said feeder, a means to communicate said pressure build up to the ground engaging wheels, such that the detection of pressure build up translates to the relative movement of the cart away from the freight container, whereby when the container is to be filled, the cart is positioned such that the feeder conduit is elevated and extends substantially into the top rear end of the freight container, wherein particulate delivered from the storage location into the feeder into the freight container, of which build up of said particulate will give rise to the sensing of a pressure build-up on the feeder once desired levels have been obtained, wherein such sensing is translated to a movement of the cart away from the freight container to free the feeder for further discharge, until the filling process has seen the feeder conduit retracted away from the front end of the container to the opposing distal rear end.

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A DELIVERY CART FOR FILLING AGRICULTURAL, WOODCHIPS AND MINERAL SANDPARTICULATE FROM A BULK STORAGE TANK/SILO TO A FREIGHT CONTAINER TECHNOLOGICAL FIELD [001] This invention relates to an intermediate delivery cart for handling and delivering agricultural particulate from a bulk storage tank or silo to a ship freight container, which in the most part would be supported on a transport truck. BACKGROUND [002] For the most part, agricultural particulate would include, but is not limited to, produce such as grain, beans, seed and the like. The invention also considers agriculture particulate for the purpose of this description to include woodchips and mineral sands. [003] Throughout this specification, the term particulate is interchanged with grain, but it should be appreciated that the use of this delivery cart is applicable to any type of bulk agricultural, mineral sands and woodchip particulate that requires discharging from a main storage tank into a freight container, the kind one associates with ship transportation. [004] For the most part, current grain production, transportation and handling systems are largely based on a bulk commodity approach. As the person skilled in the art will appreciate, many crops are harvested by combined or similar machines, which, in addition to harvesting the crop, separate the grain, bean, seed and the like from the remainder of the plant material. This agricultural particulate is off-loaded from the harvester and transported to a farm storage facility or local grain bulk storage tank or silo. 1 [005] While there are a variety ways of moving large quantities of crops through the use of open truck, rail, or barges, from the storage facility straight to a food processor, the application of this delivery cart specifically relates to the problems associated with the filling of a freight containers, which are originally supported on a truck, which would then make its way to dockside, in the most instance for overseas transport. [006] At present, to fill the ship container with the grain, a conveyor, which is supported by a telescopic type boom, is mounted on an intermediate wheel supported vehicle. [007] The conveyor is a belt driven conveyor and the belt is supported on a trough shaped metal base between the conveyor ends. The conveyor receives grain from the main storage tank and the other end of the conveyor belt is diagonally inserted into the freight container, which is supported on the tray of a transport truck. [008] The vehicle supporting the bulk conveyor remains fixed in position and grain is taken from the storage tank and discharged into the truck, whereby an operator stationed at the door of the freight container watches this discharge and as soon as it become apparent that the grain is filling at a rate that it begins to potentially come in contact with the belt conveyor, this operator then signals to the driver of the truck to move the truck slightly forward, and this process continues until the vertically inclined bulk conveyor has had the opportunity of being retracted out from the front end of the container through to the rear access doors. [009] As the conveyor belt is inserted into the freight container with an inclined orientation, as the person skilled in the art will appreciate, as the grain is discharged into the container there will be a tremendous amount of dust and the like as the filling takes place. Still further, this inclined orientation means that 2 bulkheads that would try and keep the main part of the freight container doors covered can only be slid across in stages. [010] As is to be expected, when the inclined conveyor belt is positioned at the beginning of the filling process with one door of the freight container closed and the other open to allow the conveyor belt to be inserted, much of this opening cannot be covered by bulkheads as the inclined conveyor takes up that area. [011] As the filling process continues and the truck moves away from the fixed in place conveyor, the inclined orientation then exposes a greater opening there underneath the conveyor, to which at the appropriate time a bulkhead can be slid across. [012] Again however, as the person skilled in the art will appreciate, the operator who stands on the back of the truck tray, determining the rate at which the truck needs to move away from the fixed conveyor to stop any backflow into the bulk conveyor system, as well as the requirement to slide across the bulkheads, is exposed to a particularly hazardous environment. Not the least, the consequences of standing on a vibrating truck tray during movement, a dusty environment by virtue of the fact the grain is being discharged into the freight container through a conveyor belt mechanism, and also related noise, temperature and moving part hazards one is exposed to during the filling process. [013] Therefore, there remains a need within the area of delivering agricultural particulate from a bulk storage tank to a ship freight container that can overcome these problems and hazards to provide a safer, more efficient and less man operated environment in the filling of such ship freight containers. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 3 [014] Accordingly, in one form of the invention, there is provided a delivery cart for filling particulate from a storage location to a freight container supportable on a transport truck, said cart including, a ground engaging and drivable wheel means to position the cart between the storage location and the freight container to be loaded, said wheels adapted to move the cart relative to the container during the filling process, a horizontal, extendable feeder conduit, said feeder conduit elevatable to a loading position, said feeder conduit in communication with a sensing device for detecting pressure build up of the particulate against said feeder, a means to communicate said pressure build up to the ground engaging wheels, such that the detection of pressure build up translates to the relative movement of the cart away from the freight container, whereby when the container is to be filled, the cart is positioned such that the feeder conduit is elevated and extends substantially into the top rear end of the freight container, wherein particulate delivered from the storage location into the feeder into the freight container, of which build up of said particulate will give rise to the sensing of a pressure build-up on the feeder once desired levels have been obtained, wherein such sensing is translated to a movement of the cart away from the freight container to free the feeder for further discharge, until the filling process has seen the feeder conduit retracted away from the front end of the container to the opposing distal rear end. 4 [015] In preference the delivery cart further includes a hopper to receive the bulk particulate from the storage location. [016] In preference the delivery cart wherein the feeder conduit is a screw feed conduit. [017] An advantage of such an arrangement is that as the feed mechanism to fill the freight container is derived not from a conventional inclined belt driven container, but by an elevated horizontal screw feed conduit, means that the delivery cart can be positioned as such that the filling of the freight container can be completed without the creation of high levels of dust, difficulties in positioning the bulkheads at the rear of the freight container to close off the openings, as well as removing the requirement of an operator standing on the back of the truck tray to monitor the discharge of the particulate and signal to the driver. [018] Advantageously, as the screw feed conduit can be elevated to enter the freight container in a horizontal orientation, rather than at an incline, from the very beginning, the appropriate bulkhead can be slid across the opening at the rear of the freight container, which has been exposed by one of the rear end doors of the freight container having to be opened to allow access into the freight container for the filling process. [019] A further advantage is that as the screw feed conduit can be brought into a substantial position up against the front end of the container to commence the discharge of the particulate in an elevated, horizontal position, once the filling process commences and the particulate begins to fill up that portion of the freight container, slowly rising towards the top to make contact with the screw feed conduit, this build up of particulate is measured as a pressure change by the senor at the end of the screw feed conduit, which can then be communicated via a variety of conventional electronic controls, which would 5 ultimately see the delivery cart retracted away from the ship freight container to allow the discharge to proceed further until the entire container is filled. [020] Advantageously therefore, there is no requirement for the operator to be looking into the ship freight container as it is being filled, potentially exposing this operator to a very hazardous environment, full of dust, temperature and noise build-ups. Advantageously, the sensing means provides for a safe and consistent mechanism, which when detected, can find the relative required movements of the delivery cart away from the freight container. [021] In the past it was the operator sitting on the back of a truck tray who would signal to the driver of the truck to move forward as the inclined conveyor belt transporting the particulate directly from the bulk storage tank into the freight container, which was in a fixed position came in contact with the particulate. [022] Hence, as can be seen, the operator standing on the back of the truck tray in the most part would not be harnessed in any way or have access to support brackets, but would be required to maintain their balance as the truck is moved forward. [023] Advantageously, in this arrangement, it is the delivery cart that has the means to move relative to the freight container, thereby the truck remains braked and locked in position throughout the entire filling process. [024] Advantageously, through the use of the horizontal screw feed conduit, the whole process of filling the particulate into the container eliminates a high proportion of dust exposure and by virtue of the screw feed mechanism, as the particulate makes its way up to the underside of the roof of the freight container, there is almost a rippling effect of the discharged particulate into the hull of the container that spreads the particulate out evenly across the width of the freight container as the screw feed conduit makes its way from the top or upper front 6 end of the ship freight container, extracting back outwards towards the rear of the container. [025] Advantageously, the sensing mechanism on the screw feed conduit can be more precise in its relative movement of the delivery cart, rather than the haphazard or guesswork that needs to be done between an operator standing on the back of the truck tray and the driver of the transport truck. [026] An advantage of having a hopper as part of the delivery cart relates to the filling rates in which the container can be filled and the like. [027] With the traditional method of simply having the inclined conveyor belt driven mechanism connected directly to the bulk storage tank, means that the supply of the particulate from the bulk storage tank or silo into the freight container is restricted by the rate of the conveyor belt. [028] Advantageously, with this invention, the screw feed conduit can speed up the rate of flow of the particulate into the container as it provides its own intermediate mini-type bulk storage access to the particulate. Hence, while delivery of the particulate from the bulk storage tank to the hopper using traditional means may be at a slower rate, this slower rate is not transferred to the screw feed conduit as the intermediate hopper provided enough particulate to maintain a high flow rate of discharge into the freight container. [029] In order to obtain a greater appreciation of the invention, it will now be described with the assistance of the following illustrations and text. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS [030] Figure 1 is the perspective view of the delivery cart, taking its intermediate position between a bulk storage tank or silo and the transport truck, which includes the freight container to be filled. 7 [031] Figure 2 shows the perspective view of the delivery cart of the invention being positioned up against the rear of the container resting on the transport truck. [032] Figures 3A and 3B show top schematic views of the filling process in the delivery of the particulate material from the delivery cart into the ship freight container. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [033] Referring to the drawings now in greater detail, where there is provided a delivery cart shown generally as 10. The delivery cart includes its own ground engagable drivable wheels 19 and is designed with extension 21 to enable the delivery cart to be backed up efficiently behind the rear of the transport truck such that the screw feed conduit 18 when elevated to the raised position through the extension of the hydraulic pistons 17 can be inserted into the freight container 14 of the transport truck 12 to be placed substantially to the front end 29 of the freight container 14. [034] The delivery cart 10 also includes a hopper 16, which receives from a conventional filling process particulate from the bulk storage tank 24 through the delivery conduit, whether it be conveyor belt or otherwise, shown as 26. [035] Once the particulate is transferred from the storage tank 24 to the hopper 16 it can be then fed into the screw feed conduit 18. [036] While in this embodiment this transfer of the particulate from the hopper to the conduit includes a further conduit into an opening, this could be done through a variety of arrangements and the entire delivery could be closed as opposed to the discharge shown in Figure 1, whereby conduit 20 discharges into an opening 21. It would be expected in many embodiments that these features of 20 and 21 could be combined in a closed representation. 8 [037] Nonetheless, the importance is that the particulate from the hopper 16 is received by the screw feed conduit 18, which has been elevated into position and by virtue of the delivery cart 10 being backed up against the rear of the transport truck 12, has been able to be extended into the freight container 14 substantially towards the rear end of the container. [038] As best seen in Figures 3A and 3B, once the screw feed conduit has been positioned inside the freight container 14, discharge of the particulate 30 can commence. [039] As the filling process involves a screw feed rather than a conveyor belt, the level of dust is low and also the particulate can make contact with the screw without any back flow occurring. [040] Nonetheless, and advantageously, at the end of the screw feed conduit there is a pressure sensor (28) picking up the amount of particulate 30 being discharged into the freight container 14, which pressure is being recognised and translated back to the delivery cart 10, to which an operator 22 could then act upon by driving the delivery cart 10 backwards, so that spacing as shown by arrow 32 is created, which in a sense extracts back the screw feed conduit 18 away from that part of the container that has been filled. [041] As the person skilled in the art will appreciate, this process continues until the screw feed conduit 18 has made its way to the rear end of the freight container 14 and once it is retracted, the door 25 can then be closed and locked together with door 23 to seal the container 14. [042] As the screw feed conduit 18 has been inserted into the freight container 14 in an elevated position, the opening presented by the open door 25 of the freight container 14 can be sealed across by a bulkhead (not shown). Nonetheless, this bulkhead can be slid across under the screw feed conduit at the commencement of the filling process. 9 [043] As the screw feed conduit is not inserted into the freight container 14 at an incline, as is the case in the most part for the conveyor belt driven mechanism with the prior art, it means that the process of sliding the bulkhead across is done at the commencement of filling, both safely and efficiently, sealing off for the most part the rear of the container. [044] The illustrations presented for the preferred embodiment, as the person skilled in the art will appreciate, can be expanded upon and presented in different configurations, depending on the actual application of the delivery cart. The operator 22 may well be enclosed within the console, much like in a modern day tractor, presented with all the relevant comforts and the like to maintain optimum alertness and efficiency of the operator 22. 10

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1. A delivery cart for filling particulate from a storage location to a freight container supportable on a transport truck, said delivery cart including: a ground engaging and drivable wheel means to position the delivery cart between the storage location and the freight container to be loaded, said wheels adapted to move the delivery cart relative to the freight container during a filling process; a horizontal feeder conduit adapted to be extendable and elevated into an initial horizontal unloading position at a top rear end location within the freight container; said horizontal feeder conduit in communication with a sensing device located at the end of the horizontal feeder conduit for detecting pressure build up of the particulate against the horizontal feeder conduit; a means to communicate said pressure build up to the ground engaging wheels, such that the detection of pressure build up sensed by the sensing device located at the end of the horizontal feeder conduit translates to the relative movement of the delivery cart away from the freight container, whereby when the freight container is to be filled, the delivery cart is positioned such that the feeder conduit is elevated and extends substantially into the top rear end of the freight container, wherein particulate delivered from the storage location through the horizontal feeder conduit into the freight container, of which build up of said particulate within the freight container will give rise to the sensing of a pressure build up sensed by the sensing device located at the end of the horizontal feeder conduit , wherein such sensing is translated to a movement of the deliver cart away from the freight container to free the horizontal feeder conduit for further unloading, until the filling process 11 has seen the horizontal feeder conduit retracted away from the rear end of the freight container to the opposing front end.
2. The delivery cart of claim 1 further includes a hopper to receive the bulk particulate from the storage location.
3. The delivery cart of claim 1 or 2 wherein the feeder conduit is a screw feed conduit.
4. The delivery cart of claim 3 wherein the cart includes ground engagable drivable wheels and is arranged with an extension to enable the delivery cart to be backed up efficiently behind the rear of the transport truck such that the screw feed conduit when elevated to the raised position through the extension of hydraulic pistons may be inserted into the freight container.
5. The delivery cart of claim 4 wherein the hopper receives from a conventional filling process particulate from a bulk storage tank through a delivery conduit and/or wherein the delivery conduit includes a conveyor belt and/or wherein the screw feed conduit is insertable into the freight container in an elevated position, and the opening presented by an open door of the freight container may be sealed across by a bulkhead. 12
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