US2659514A - Charging door for transit concrete mixers - Google Patents

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US2659514A
US2659514A US165147A US16514750A US2659514A US 2659514 A US2659514 A US 2659514A US 165147 A US165147 A US 165147A US 16514750 A US16514750 A US 16514750A US 2659514 A US2659514 A US 2659514A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28C—PREPARING CLAY; PRODUCING MIXTURES CONTAINING CLAY OR CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
    • B28C5/00—Apparatus or methods for producing mixtures of cement with other substances, e.g. slurries, mortars, porous or fibrous compositions
    • B28C5/42—Apparatus specially adapted for being mounted on vehicles with provision for mixing during transport
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    • B28C5/4268—Drums, e.g. provided with non-rotary mixing blades
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    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/45—Closures or doors specially adapted for mixing receptacles; Operating mechanisms therefor
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  • This invention relates to concrete agitators or mixers and more particularly to a charging door by means of which a charge of ready mixed concrete or the ingredients of concrete may be loaded into the rotatable drum of a transit mixer.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a door for the charging openings of the drums of transit concrete mixers or agitators which will eiiectively seal the charging opening against leakage of water or fine particles i grit during rotation of the drum, as well as a door structure which may quickly and comparative case be placed and locked in closing position or be removed to allow charging of the drum.
  • the invention consists of various features of construction and combination of parts, which will be first described in connection with the accompanying drawings, showing a charging door for transit concrete mixer of a preferred form embodying the invention, and the features forming the invention will be specifically pointed out in the claim.
  • Figure l is a fragmentary section through a transit concrete mixer drum showing the door in closed position.
  • Figure 2 is a top plan of the door.
  • Figure 3 is a top plan of the door clamping ring carried by the mixer drum.
  • Figure 4 is a View taken on line ii- 1 of Figure 3.
  • i indicates the rotatable mixing drum of a transit concrete mixer which may be rotated in any of the approved manners in which the mixing drums of transit concrete mixers are rotated, many such structures being on the open market.
  • the drum l is provided with an end discharging opening 2 and with a charging opening 3 formed in the side of the drum at a position which is the normal stopped top of the drum so that the opening will be readily accessible for loading a charge of ready mixed concrete or the ingredients of concrete into the drum.
  • a clamping ring structure a is welded to the drum about the perimeter of the opening 3 and it includes the annular ring 5 which extends into the drum and has an annular inwardly extending flange 5 upon its inner edge.
  • a pair of diametrically opposed flanges 1 extend inwardly from the innner side of the ring 5 near the upper outer edge of the ring. These flanges may be formed in any suitable manner such as by the welding of angle plates to the interior-of the ring.
  • the ring i opens out through the drum so as to permit the concrete ingredients or premixed concrete to be passed through the opening into the. drum.
  • a door or closure structure is provided for tightly closing the charging opening during'transit of the mixer andprevent water or fine grit froni leairing out of the drum through the charging opening during rotation of the drum.
  • 'l'he door structure includes the dished disc Iii, the perimetrical portion of which i reversely dished to the curvature of the main body of the disc as shown at l i.
  • An elastic gasket I2 preferably of molded rubher is mounted upon the perimeter of the disc iii, as clearly shown in Figure l of the drawings.
  • An internally threaded projection l3 extends outwardly from the concave side of the disc at its axis.
  • the internally threaded projection [3 receives a threaded stud i i.
  • the stud Hi extends through the locking bar it and is partially housed in a housing It depending from the locking arm i 5.
  • a wedging washer or flange I? is formed on the stud i4 and engages against the annular shoulder 18 of the housing it.
  • a hand wheel i9 is keyed on the stud It by any suitable type of key indicated at 20, and is held against longitudinal movement by means of a lock nut 2i.
  • the locking bar I5 is braced by a yoke structure 22 which is welded to the housing iii and to the re-enforcing plates 23 which are in turn welded or otherwise suitably attached to the locking bar iii.
  • the locking bar In use, the locking bar it is rotated so that it will clear the diametrically opposed flanges I on the ring 4 and the door structure is inserted into the ring with the annular elastic gasket l2 engaging the inturned annular flange 6 after which the locking bar it is moved so that its ends will engage beneath the diametrically spaced flanges 3.
  • the hand wheel 19 is then rotated to move or force the disc it and the locking bar l5 apart, forcing the locking bar into tight locking engagement with the flanges i and forcing the gasket 22 in tight sealing engagement with the annular flange 6.
  • the hand wheel I9 When it is desired to remove the door, the hand wheel I9 is rotated in the opposite direction to move the disc iii and locking bar iii towards each other so that when the locking bar is released from clamping engagement against the flanges i it may be slightly rotated so as to clear the flanges and the entire door structure lifted out of the ring 4 by means of the handles 24 which are attached to the locking bar 15.
  • said drum having a charging opening in the wall thereof at its normal stopped top position, of a clamping ring in said opening about the circumference thereof and extending into said drum, said clamping ring including an annular flange on its inner portion turned radially inward and a pair of inturned flanges adjacent its outer edge extending radially inward, a door mounted in said clamping ring for closing said opening consisting of a dished disc having its outer perimetrical portion dished reversely to the dishing or" the main body, and provided with an annular gasket on its outer edge to engage said annular flange when the door is mounted in said clamping ring,
  • an internally threaded projection formed at the center of said door a stud having a threaded portion thereon engaging said internally threaded projection, a shoulder on said stud above said threaded portion, a locking bar provided with a bore to receive said stud therethrough, a housing about said bore adapted to abut said shoulder on the stud for rotatably mounting said locking bar, a handwheel fixedly connected to the portion of the stud extending through said locking bar to move said locking bar into and out of locking engagement with said pair of inturned flanges on the outer edge of said clamping ring, and said housing in assembled position extending about the outer circumference of said internally threaded projection and slidable thereover during movement of said locking bar.

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Nov. 17, 1953 R. M. HENDERSON CHARGING DOOR FOR TRANSIT CONCRETE MIXERS Filed May 31, 1950 ROBERT MJ-IENDERSON IN VEN TOR.
Patented Nov. 17, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARGING DOOR FOR TRANSIT CONCRETE MIXERS Application May 31, 1950, Serial No; 165,147
1 Claim. 1
This invention relates to concrete agitators or mixers and more particularly to a charging door by means of which a charge of ready mixed concrete or the ingredients of concrete may be loaded into the rotatable drum of a transit mixer.
More specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a door for the charging openings of the drums of transit concrete mixers or agitators which will eiiectively seal the charging opening against leakage of water or fine particles i grit during rotation of the drum, as well as a door structure which may quickly and comparative case be placed and locked in closing position or be removed to allow charging of the drum.
With these and other objects in view, as may appear from the accompanying specification, the invention consists of various features of construction and combination of parts, which will be first described in connection with the accompanying drawings, showing a charging door for transit concrete mixer of a preferred form embodying the invention, and the features forming the invention will be specifically pointed out in the claim.
In the drawings:
Figure l is a fragmentary section through a transit concrete mixer drum showing the door in closed position.
Figure 2 is a top plan of the door.
Figure 3 is a top plan of the door clamping ring carried by the mixer drum.
Figure 4 is a View taken on line ii- 1 of Figure 3.
Referring more particularly to the drawings, i indicates the rotatable mixing drum of a transit concrete mixer which may be rotated in any of the approved manners in which the mixing drums of transit concrete mixers are rotated, many such structures being on the open market. The drum l is provided with an end discharging opening 2 and with a charging opening 3 formed in the side of the drum at a position which is the normal stopped top of the drum so that the opening will be readily accessible for loading a charge of ready mixed concrete or the ingredients of concrete into the drum.
A clamping ring structure a is welded to the drum about the perimeter of the opening 3 and it includes the annular ring 5 which extends into the drum and has an annular inwardly extending flange 5 upon its inner edge.
A pair of diametrically opposed flanges 1 extend inwardly from the innner side of the ring 5 near the upper outer edge of the ring. These flanges may be formed in any suitable manner such as by the welding of angle plates to the interior-of the ring. The ring i opens out through the drum so as to permit the concrete ingredients or premixed concrete to be passed through the opening into the. drum. A door or closure structure is provided for tightly closing the charging opening during'transit of the mixer andprevent water or fine grit froni leairing out of the drum through the charging opening during rotation of the drum. 'l'he door structure includes the dished disc Iii, the perimetrical portion of which i reversely dished to the curvature of the main body of the disc as shown at l i. An elastic gasket I2 preferably of molded rubher is mounted upon the perimeter of the disc iii, as clearly shown in Figure l of the drawings. An internally threaded projection l3 extends outwardly from the concave side of the disc at its axis. The internally threaded projection [3 receives a threaded stud i i. The stud Hi extends through the locking bar it and is partially housed in a housing It depending from the locking arm i 5. A wedging washer or flange I? is formed on the stud i4 and engages against the annular shoulder 18 of the housing it.
A hand wheel i9 is keyed on the stud It by any suitable type of key indicated at 20, and is held against longitudinal movement by means of a lock nut 2i. The locking bar I5 is braced by a yoke structure 22 which is welded to the housing iii and to the re-enforcing plates 23 which are in turn welded or otherwise suitably attached to the locking bar iii.
In use, the locking bar it is rotated so that it will clear the diametrically opposed flanges I on the ring 4 and the door structure is inserted into the ring with the annular elastic gasket l2 engaging the inturned annular flange 6 after which the locking bar it is moved so that its ends will engage beneath the diametrically spaced flanges 3. The hand wheel 19 is then rotated to move or force the disc it and the locking bar l5 apart, forcing the locking bar into tight locking engagement with the flanges i and forcing the gasket 22 in tight sealing engagement with the annular flange 6.
When it is desired to remove the door, the hand wheel I9 is rotated in the opposite direction to move the disc iii and locking bar iii towards each other so that when the locking bar is released from clamping engagement against the flanges i it may be slightly rotated so as to clear the flanges and the entire door structure lifted out of the ring 4 by means of the handles 24 which are attached to the locking bar 15.
It will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific construction or arrangement of parts shown, but that they may be widely modified within the invention defined by the claim.
What is claimed is:
In combination with a rotatable drum on a transit concrete mixer, said drum having a charging opening in the wall thereof at its normal stopped top position, of a clamping ring in said opening about the circumference thereof and extending into said drum, said clamping ring including an annular flange on its inner portion turned radially inward and a pair of inturned flanges adjacent its outer edge extending radially inward, a door mounted in said clamping ring for closing said opening consisting of a dished disc having its outer perimetrical portion dished reversely to the dishing or" the main body, and provided with an annular gasket on its outer edge to engage said annular flange when the door is mounted in said clamping ring,
an internally threaded projection formed at the center of said door, a stud having a threaded portion thereon engaging said internally threaded projection, a shoulder on said stud above said threaded portion, a locking bar provided with a bore to receive said stud therethrough, a housing about said bore adapted to abut said shoulder on the stud for rotatably mounting said locking bar, a handwheel fixedly connected to the portion of the stud extending through said locking bar to move said locking bar into and out of locking engagement with said pair of inturned flanges on the outer edge of said clamping ring, and said housing in assembled position extending about the outer circumference of said internally threaded projection and slidable thereover during movement of said locking bar.
ROBERT M. HENDERSON.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 522,606 Lee July 10, 1894 1,359,874 Culverwell et a1. Nov. 23, 1920 1,928,380 Jaeger et a1. Sept. 26, 1933 1,948,715 Jaeger et al Feb. 27, 1934 2,199,765 Velie May 7, 1940 2,264,180 Koehler Nov. 25, 1941 2,447,464 Jenkins Aug. 17, 1948 2,457,927 Scudder Jan. 4, 1949 2,516,202 Graham July 25, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS umber Country Date 36,424 Sweden Apr. 1, 1914
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US2746824A (en) * 1954-04-22 1956-05-22 H K Lorentzen Inc Shock-resistant case and seal therefor
US4073239A (en) * 1976-09-20 1978-02-14 Apex Railway Products Co. Closing means for a hatch cover
US4454957A (en) * 1982-12-20 1984-06-19 Power Cutting Incorporated Self-locking sealing plug and installing method
USRE36557E (en) * 1993-01-14 2000-02-08 Stant Manufacturing Inc. Filler neck closure cap
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US1359874A (en) * 1919-02-21 1920-11-23 Culverwell George Henry Closure for barrels
US1928380A (en) * 1931-04-09 1933-09-26 Jaeger Machine Co Concrete mixer
US1948715A (en) * 1931-06-15 1934-02-27 Jaeger Machine Co Metering and closure locking means for concrete mixers
US2199765A (en) * 1938-11-01 1940-05-07 Bellingham Iron Works Inc Door locking mechanism
US2264180A (en) * 1940-02-24 1941-11-25 Abbott Ball Co Tumbling barrel
US2447464A (en) * 1946-09-16 1948-08-17 Frederick T Jenkins Retort door
US2457927A (en) * 1945-05-03 1949-01-04 Smith Corp A O Closure for pressure vessels
US2516202A (en) * 1944-09-19 1950-07-25 Maurice H Graham Pressure cooker

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US522606A (en) * 1894-07-10 Shipping-can
US1359874A (en) * 1919-02-21 1920-11-23 Culverwell George Henry Closure for barrels
US1928380A (en) * 1931-04-09 1933-09-26 Jaeger Machine Co Concrete mixer
US1948715A (en) * 1931-06-15 1934-02-27 Jaeger Machine Co Metering and closure locking means for concrete mixers
US2199765A (en) * 1938-11-01 1940-05-07 Bellingham Iron Works Inc Door locking mechanism
US2264180A (en) * 1940-02-24 1941-11-25 Abbott Ball Co Tumbling barrel
US2516202A (en) * 1944-09-19 1950-07-25 Maurice H Graham Pressure cooker
US2457927A (en) * 1945-05-03 1949-01-04 Smith Corp A O Closure for pressure vessels
US2447464A (en) * 1946-09-16 1948-08-17 Frederick T Jenkins Retort door

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2746824A (en) * 1954-04-22 1956-05-22 H K Lorentzen Inc Shock-resistant case and seal therefor
US4073239A (en) * 1976-09-20 1978-02-14 Apex Railway Products Co. Closing means for a hatch cover
US4454957A (en) * 1982-12-20 1984-06-19 Power Cutting Incorporated Self-locking sealing plug and installing method
USRE36557E (en) * 1993-01-14 2000-02-08 Stant Manufacturing Inc. Filler neck closure cap
EP1842642A3 (en) * 2006-04-07 2008-05-21 Hymix Limited Cover

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