CA1124709A - Concrete mixer delivery vehicle - Google Patents

Concrete mixer delivery vehicle

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CA1124709A
CA1124709A CA370,124A CA370124A CA1124709A CA 1124709 A CA1124709 A CA 1124709A CA 370124 A CA370124 A CA 370124A CA 1124709 A CA1124709 A CA 1124709A
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concrete
paddle assembly
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Andre Peloquin
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28CPREPARING CLAY; PRODUCING MIXTURES CONTAINING CLAY OR CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28C5/00Apparatus or methods for producing mixtures of cement with other substances, e.g. slurries, mortars, porous or fibrous compositions
    • B28C5/08Apparatus or methods for producing mixtures of cement with other substances, e.g. slurries, mortars, porous or fibrous compositions using driven mechanical means affecting the mixing
    • B28C5/10Mixing in containers not actuated to effect the mixing
    • B28C5/12Mixing in containers not actuated to effect the mixing with stirrers sweeping through the materials, e.g. with incorporated feeding or discharging means or with oscillating stirrers
    • B28C5/14Mixing in containers not actuated to effect the mixing with stirrers sweeping through the materials, e.g. with incorporated feeding or discharging means or with oscillating stirrers the stirrers having motion about a horizontal or substantially horizontal axis
    • B28C5/148Mixing in containers not actuated to effect the mixing with stirrers sweeping through the materials, e.g. with incorporated feeding or discharging means or with oscillating stirrers the stirrers having motion about a horizontal or substantially horizontal axis the stirrer shaft carrying a plurality of radially extending mixing bars
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01FMIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F27/00Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders
    • B01F27/05Stirrers
    • B01F27/07Stirrers characterised by their mounting on the shaft
    • B01F27/072Stirrers characterised by their mounting on the shaft characterised by the disposition of the stirrers with respect to the rotating axis
    • B01F27/0726Stirrers characterised by their mounting on the shaft characterised by the disposition of the stirrers with respect to the rotating axis having stirring elements connected to the stirrer shaft each by a single radial rod, other than open frameworks
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28CPREPARING CLAY; PRODUCING MIXTURES CONTAINING CLAY OR CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28C5/00Apparatus or methods for producing mixtures of cement with other substances, e.g. slurries, mortars, porous or fibrous compositions
    • B28C5/42Apparatus specially adapted for being mounted on vehicles with provision for mixing during transport
    • B28C5/4282Apparatus specially adapted for being mounted on vehicles with provision for mixing during transport with moving mixing tools in a stationary container
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60PVEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS
    • B60P3/00Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects
    • B60P3/16Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects for carrying mixed concrete, e.g. having rotatable drums

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  • Preparation Of Clay, And Manufacture Of Mixtures Containing Clay Or Cement (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A vehicle of the type adapted to contain a load of concrete mixture to be driven by the buyer himself to the desired destination where he wants to pour concrete. This concrete mixer delivery vehicle is characterized by its effortless unloading and by its paddle assembly that produces such unloading without having to tilt the tank to empty it. The tank is fixedly mounted and includes a loading opening at the top and an unloading door in the lowest portion of one end wall. The paddle assembly is readily removable through the loading top opening and includes rows of blades with radially outermost blades arranged to wipe against all of the inner bottom surface of the tank and angularly set to axially move the concrete mixture and unload it through the unloading door in the end wall.

Description

i~Z4~09 This invention relates to a vehicle adapted for delivery of ready mix concrete mixtures, more particularly of the type suitable for small quantities and driven to the site by the buyer himself.
There is presently in use a vehicle of the above type in the form of a trailer that is hitched to the buyer's car or the like vehicle to be driven wherever wanted. In that concrete mixture delivery vehicle, there is no agitation of the concrete mixture during its transportation and thus the concrete cannot be prevented from setting if it stays longer than expected in the trailer.
There hav~ been proposed concrete mixers that are suitable for the delivery of concrete mixtures as above mentioned. For instance, Canadian Patent No. 293,202 issued September 17, 1929 in the name of W.M. Walker et al discloses such concrete mixer delivery vehicle and ~.S. Patent No.
4,043,540 issued in the name of discloses a concrete mixer that could be used on a trailer. In both of these patented concrete mixers~ the tank holding the concrete mixture must be tilted to unload the concrete mixture. This is difficult to do by hand at least for some potential customers due to the weight involved that has to be controlled to properly unload. If, as suggested in the Canadian patent, an elevating means is used to tilt the tank, there results more complexity, weight, and higher costs.
It is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved concrete mixer and delivery vehicle of the above type that is adapted to agitate the mixture during its transportation.
It is a more specific object of the present invention to provide an improved concrete mixer and delivery vehicle ~ 'r ~, 1~24709 of the above type that is provided with a paddle assembly which is taken advantage of to produce agitation and more particularly to also produce effortless unloading of the concrete mixture.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved concrete mixer and delivery vehicle of the above type that is provided with a paddle assembly of improved construc-tion and opera-tion and in particular that moves the concrete mixture in the tank in both directions in a closed circuit back and,forth along the tank thus providing more thorough mixture and preventing more accumulation at one end and excessive reactions on the paddle blades at that end.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide an improved concrete mixer and delivery vehicle of the above type that is provided with a paddle assembly with its paddle blades longitudinally spaced and arranged along the tank to wipe against all the inner bottom surface of the tank to unload the tank clean over all its bottom ~20 surface.
In accordance with the invention, the concre-te mixer and delivery vehicle of the above type i9 improved in that:
a) at least one end of the shaft of the paddle assembly is connected with frangible pins to a stub shaft extending at one end of the vehicle to allow shearing of the pins whenever too much resistance to rotation is encountered by the paddle assembly;
b) each paddle comprises a radial arm rigidly secured to at one and of the assembly shaft, an outermost blade adjustably secured to other end of the arm, and another blade also secured to the radial arm intermediate ~124~09 the ends thereof, and c) the radially outermost blades complementarilyextend over substantially the full axial length of the cylindrical bottom portion to wipe substantially the entire surface of the latter.
The outermost blades are wipingly moving against the cylindrical bottom portion of the tank upon rotation of the paddle assemblv and are angularly set relative to the axial direction of the paddle assembly for axial moving of the concrete mixture in either axial direction upon rotation of the paddle assembly. The other blades, are angularly set crosswise relative to the radially outermost blades whereby to move the concrete mixture in opposite axial direction relative to the radially outermost blade upon rotation of the paddle assembly.
The above and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be better understood with reference to the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof which is illustrated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings; in which:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a concrete mixer ' delivery vehicle according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a side elevation view of the sa.ne concrete mixer delivery vehicle;
Figure 3 is a rear elevation view still of the same concrete mixer delivery vehicle;
Figure 4 is a longitudinal cross section in olevation of the same concrete mixer delivery vehicle;
3~ Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view as seen along line 5-5 in Figure 4;
Figure 6 is a view of the blade assembly as seen - 3 a -from one end of a supporting arm, all of which forming partof the paddle assembly shown in Figure 4i and Figure 7 is a side view as seen in the direction of the arrows along line 7-7 in,Figure 6.

- 3 b -1~24709 The illustrated concrete mixar delivery vshicle takes the fnrm of a trailer adapted to be pulled by one's car or motor vehicle after purchase of the load of concrete mixture at a store that sells such servica. The concrete mixer deli~ery vehicle includes a sturdy trailer frame 1, of convantional construction and conventionally mounted on a pair of wheel axles and appropriate springs, as shown. A
conventional hitch mechanism 2 allows to hitch the trailer to a motor vshicle to be driuen to the site where the concrete will be poured.
A tank 3 for the concrete mixture i8 fixedly mounted or secured on arch-shaped br~ckets 4 of the frame 1. The tank 3 comprises a cylindrical bottom 5, opposite end walls 6 and 7, a top loading opening ~ and laterally opposite side walls 9, 9. A safety screen 10 is removably secured in top opening ~ to load the concrete nixture into the tank 3. The loading top opening is nearly coextensive in width end lefigth with the tank 3 to readily remove the hereinafter described paddle assambly through it. An unloading rear door 11, of any ap-propriate detail construction and operation, is provided in the rear end wall 7 adjacent the bottom of the tank to completely unload the latter.
A pair of stub shafts 12 and 13 are rotatively secured to the end walls 6 and 7 and inwardly project a predetermined distance toward each other coaxially with the axis defined by the cylindrical bottom 5. ~ paddle asssmbly is removably engaged on the stub shafts 12, 13 to bodily rotate with them. The paddle assembly comprises a tubular shaft 14 which i9 of predetermined length to tubularly engage onto the inner end of the stub shafts 12, 13. Frangible pinQ 15, or the like, connect at least the forward end of the tubular shaft 14 on the forward stub shaft 12 to allow shearing of the pins whenever too much resistance to rotation i8 encountered by the paddls assembly. The length of the tubular shaft 14 is chosen in relation with the axial length of the . tank 3 and the length of the stub axles 12, 13 to allow installation and removal of the tubular shaft relative to its operativs tubular ~ 1 24709 engagement on both stub shafts 12, 13. After removal o~ safety screen 10, top loading opening 8 allows insertion and remoua] of the paddle assembly in and ~rom the tank 3. The paddle assembly also includes radial arms 16 that are rigidly secured at one end to the tubular shaft`
14 and which radially extand endwise from the latter in diametrically-opposite directions and in axially spaced-apart relationship along the tuhular shaft.
Each radial arm 16 is provided with a blade assembly including a radially outermost blade 17 and a blade la intermediate the ends of the radial arm. The outermost blades 17 are each formed with a rubber strlp 19 ~andwiched batween rigid faces 20 and arranged for radial adjustment to effectively scrape against the cylindrical inner surface of the cylindrical bottom S of the tank. All of the blades 17 longitudinally extend in the same angular direction relative to the axial direction snd the blades lB extsnd crosswise relative to the blades 17, as best shown in Figure 6, in another angular direction with respsct to the axial direction. Furthermore, the blades 17 longitudinally extend and are spaced apart such as to cooperatively cover the full length of ths cylindrical bottom and, thus, wipe against all the inner cyl-inderical surface thereof to clean it all. That cleaning is achieved through the angular direction ,of the blades 17 that causes the latter to axially move the concrete mixture and to unload it through the door 11 upon rotation of the paddle assembly in one particular direct~on. When the rotation is done in the opposite direction, the blades 17 push or move the concrete mixture toward the ~ront and the blades lB push the concrete mixture toward the rear. There is thus praduced a fore-and-aft circuit of displacement that is used to agitate the mixture during transportation and before its unloading through rotation in the opposite direction.
The afore-mentioned rotation is produced by an engine 21 driving the paddle assembly through a gearbox 22 and a chain 23, with means provided to reve'rse the direction of rotation. Chain 22 is protected by a cover 23'.

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Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. In a concrete mixer and delivery vehicle of the type comprising:
a vehicle frame;
a concrete mixing tank fixedly attached onto the vehicle frame and including a cylindrical bottom portion, a top portion and opposite end walls secured to the cylindrical bottom portion and to the top portion, the cylindrical portion axially extending endwise toward opposite end walls;
an unloading door at the bottom of one of the opposite end walls adjacent the cylindrical bottom portion;
a loading opening in the top portion;
a mixing and unloading paddle assembly rotatably mounted in the concrete mixing tank coaxially with the cylindrical bottom portion thereof and including paddles for moving the concrete mixture in either axial direction upon ro-tation of the assembly,said paddle assembly including a shaft of predetermined length tubularly engageable at the opposite ends with a pair of aligned stub axles respectively carried by the opposite end walls of the tank and extending a predetermined distance endwise toward each other,said assembly being arranged for bodily rotation with at least one of said stub axles and constructed to be selectively disconnected from the latter for removal through the loading access door; and a drive assembly connected to the paddle assembly for selectively rotating the latter in either angular direction;
the improvements wherein:

a) at least one end of the assembly shaft is connect-ed to the corresponding stub shaft with frangible pins to allow shearing of the pins whenever too much resistance to rotation is encountered by the paddle assembly;
b) each paddle comprises a radial arm rigidly secured at one end to the assembly shaft, an outermost blade adjusta-bly secured to the other end of the arm, said outermost blade wipingly moving against the cylindrical bottom portion of the tank upon rotation of the paddle assembly and being angularly set relative to the axial direction of the paddle assembly for axial moving of the concrete mixture in either axial direction upon rotation of the paddle assembly,and another blade also secured to the radial arm intermediate the ends thereof, said other blade being angularly set crosswise relative to the ra-dially outermost blade whereby to move the concrete mixture in opposite axial direction relative to the radially outermost blade upon rotation of the paddle assembly; and c) the radially outermost blades complementarily extend over substantially the full axial length of the cylindrical bottom portion to wipe substantially the entire surface of the latter.
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Cited By (8)

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EP0063171A2 (en) * 1981-04-15 1982-10-27 Stelzer Rührtechnik GmbH Mixing apparatus
FR2563786A1 (en) * 1984-04-02 1985-11-08 Tenco Machinery Ltd SINGLE HULL CONCRETE MIXER OR THE LIKE
TR22780A (en) * 1984-08-06 1988-07-18 Rech D Etudes Etechniques Sa D MACHINES AND MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF COMPRESSED SOIL BALLS
FR2718367A1 (en) * 1994-04-12 1995-10-13 Sofraden Ind Sarl Mixing device for materials.
FR2927548A1 (en) * 2008-02-18 2009-08-21 Cartel Soc Par Actions Simplif Components mixing apparatus for forming e.g. concrete in construction field, has container coupled to rolling unit to form connection of apparatus with ground, and mixing unit carried by shaft driven in rotation by rolling unit with wheels
EP3287246A1 (en) * 2016-08-18 2018-02-28 Hymix Ltd Delivery vehicle
EP3154668A4 (en) * 2014-06-10 2018-07-04 Mark E. Wallgren Lump conditioner for a mixer
WO2024123220A1 (en) * 2022-12-07 2024-06-13 Epiroc Rock Drills Aktiebolag Arrangement and method for mixing cement with water

Cited By (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0063171A2 (en) * 1981-04-15 1982-10-27 Stelzer Rührtechnik GmbH Mixing apparatus
EP0063171A3 (en) * 1981-04-15 1984-07-18 Erwin Stelzer Mixing apparatus
FR2563786A1 (en) * 1984-04-02 1985-11-08 Tenco Machinery Ltd SINGLE HULL CONCRETE MIXER OR THE LIKE
TR22780A (en) * 1984-08-06 1988-07-18 Rech D Etudes Etechniques Sa D MACHINES AND MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF COMPRESSED SOIL BALLS
FR2718367A1 (en) * 1994-04-12 1995-10-13 Sofraden Ind Sarl Mixing device for materials.
EP0677323A1 (en) * 1994-04-12 1995-10-18 SOFRADEN INDUSTRIE Sarl Mixing apparatus for materials
FR2927548A1 (en) * 2008-02-18 2009-08-21 Cartel Soc Par Actions Simplif Components mixing apparatus for forming e.g. concrete in construction field, has container coupled to rolling unit to form connection of apparatus with ground, and mixing unit carried by shaft driven in rotation by rolling unit with wheels
EP3154668A4 (en) * 2014-06-10 2018-07-04 Mark E. Wallgren Lump conditioner for a mixer
US10293313B2 (en) 2014-06-10 2019-05-21 Mark Wallgren Lump conditioner for a mixer
EP3287246A1 (en) * 2016-08-18 2018-02-28 Hymix Ltd Delivery vehicle
WO2024123220A1 (en) * 2022-12-07 2024-06-13 Epiroc Rock Drills Aktiebolag Arrangement and method for mixing cement with water

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