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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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  • G03G7/008—Organic components thereof being macromolecular
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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  • B65G69/10—Obtaining an average product from stored bulk material
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C09—DYES; PAINTS; POLISHES; NATURAL RESINS; ADHESIVES; COMPOSITIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • C09D—COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR
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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
  • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
  • E01C19/00—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
  • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
  • E01C19/00—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
  • E01C19/02—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving for preparing the materials
  • E01C19/08—Apparatus for transporting and heating or melting asphalt, bitumen, tar, or the like
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
  • G03G7/00—Selection of materials for use in image-receiving members, i.e. for reversal by physical contact; Manufacture thereof
  • G03G7/0006—Cover layers for image-receiving members; Strippable coversheets
  • G03G7/002—Organic components thereof
  • G03G7/0026—Organic components thereof being macromolecular
  • G03G7/0046—Organic components thereof being macromolecular obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds

Definitions

• ⁇ he present invention basically relates to methods and equipment for preventing separation in bulk materials, which contains material of different particle sizes.
• ⁇ he invention has come into being for solving the problem with the separation occurring in ballast material included in the asphalt composition ordinarily used for metalling roads, streets and the like. It is, however, not limited to this particular application but can be utilized in many different fields, e.g. with concrete, manuring agents and the like, in which particles or ingredients are included that have varying sizes.
• the metalling an streets and roads has an uneven quality due to the ballast material in the asphalt composition having separated during the different steps in transport, when the composition is transferred first from the asphalt works to an intermediate storage sealer and then from this to the transport vehicle and from there to the layer and at last out on the roadway.
• each material size in the ballast material strives to collect at the sloping surfaces automatically formed when the asphalt composition is tipped.
• the uneven structure of the laid asphalt composition results in the risk of traffic accidents increasing since certain areas get poor water runoff, the risk of water planing then increasing, and wear will be uneven so that the roadway can be wavy and repair patching must take place. For several reasons, it would therefore be a saving if the quality on the laid asphalt composition could be made better than what the case is today.
• the roadway could be made more safe for traffic with less risk of different types of skidding accidents as well as other types of accident, and maintenance could be reduced by avoiding patching and repairing individual places. Instead, larger road sections could be renovated at greater intervals than what is the case today, which is something which could save costs in the order of millions every year in roadway maintenance.
• Die present invention has the object of obviating the above-mentioned problems by simple means and equipment and without interfering in the asphalt composition itself or its production. This object is achieved by the method and equipment of the kind disclosed in the accompanying Claims, from which also will be seen the characterizing features of the invention. Die invention will now be described in more detail in the following and in connection with the accompany drawings, where
• FIGURE 1 is a schematic depiction of conventional conveyance of asphalt composition between an asphalt mixer and a transport vehicle;
• FIGURE 2 is a schematic view seen from above of a transport vehicle provided with an embodiment of equipment in accordance with the invention
• FIGURE 3 is a schematic side view of the vehicle in Figure 2;
• FIGURE 4 is a schematic view of a hot holding hopper seen from above and provided with an embodiment of equipment in accordance with the invention
• FIGURE 5 is a section taken along the line V-V in Figure 4.
• FIGURE 6 is a schematic view from above of a second embodiment of equipment in accordance with the invention intended to be placed on a vehicle deck;
• FIGURE 7 is a section along the line G-G in Figure 6;
• FIGURE 8 is a section taken along the line F-F in Figure 6;
• FIGURE 9 is a schematic view from above of a vehicle deck
• FIGURE 10 is a section taken along the line G-G in Figure 9;
• FIGURE 11 is a section taken along the line F-F in Figure 9;
• FIGURE 12 is a schematic view from above of a partially loaded vehicle deck corresponding to Figure 9, loading having taken place with equipment according to Figures 6-8 mounted on the deck;
• FIGURE 13 is a section taken along the line G-G in Figure 12;
• FIGURE 14 is a section taken along the line F-F in Figure 12;
• FIGURE 15 is a schematic view from above of a vehicle deck
• FIGURE 16 is a section taken along the line G-G in Figure 15
• FIGURE 17 is a section taken along the line F-F in Figure 15;
• FIGURE 18 is a schematic, fragmental side view of an intermediate storage silo provided with a spreader in accordance with the invention.
• FIGURE 19 is a section taken along the line H-H in Figure 16;
• FIGURE 20 is a schematic view from above of the intermediate silo illustrated in Figure 16, and which is provided with an hoistable insert;
• FI GURE 21 is a section taken along the line E-E in Figure 18;
• FIGURES 22I-IV schematically illustrate in sections different operational steps for the intermediate storage silo illustrated in Figures 18-19;
• FIGURE 23 is a schematic view from above of a concrete container on a transport vehicle provided with equipment in accordance with the invention.
• FIGURE 24 is a section taken along the line A-A in Figure 23.
• the asphalt composition 3 is first tipped from the mixer 1 to the skip 4 running on a sloping track 5. Die skip lifts the composition 3 for tipping it into a hot holding hopper 6 for intermediate storage of the composition 3 and from which the material is tapped onto transport vehicles such as trucks 2.
• the asphalt composition 3 behaves as gravel, i.e. it forms a pyramid-like pile where the larger stones roll out towards the sides of the pile and the material will be finer and finer the further inwards and upwards it is in the pile.
• an auxiliary divider 7 is placed an the truck.
• This devider comprises in the illustrated embodiment of an array of metal tubes 8, all of which have the same height which is suitably somewhat lower than the height of the side walls surrounding the truck 4a.
• the tubes are mutually attached so that they form a honeycomb-like unit of a size accommodated on the deck 2a and which substantially covers the whole of the deck.
• a lifting yoke 9 is attached to the container 7 such as to project up above the upper edge of the side walls a sufficient extent for a lifting means easily to be hooked onto it for lifting on and off the divider 7.
• This auxiliary divider is suitably put into place on the deck 2a before loading and is removed as soon as loading is completed.
• THis divider has the result that each metal tube 8 is individually filled as well as the spaces between the tubes and there can thus occur a minor separation in each of them.
• the asphalt composition flows together and the composition will be homogenous.
• the asphalt composition is then transferred from the deck 2a to an asphalt spreader, a last positive mixing occurs by the vertically loaded columns which have been formed in the tube sections gradually falling from the top part and downwards into a cohesive mass from the deck and down into the laying trough.
• the hot holding hopper 6 and preferably also the skip 4 each has an embodiment respectively according to Figures 4 and 5.
• the means required for keeping the asphalt composition in the hopper 6 hot during the intermediate storage time are not shown.
• the hopper 6, which is suitably, as shewn, a circular upstanding container is provided with a set of mutually concentric tubes 10 and 11 kept in place by baffles 12 extending from the outer walls 13 of the hopper 6 radially inwards to the innermost tube 11, thus dividing the hopper into a plurality of compartments 14.
• the hopper 6 is conically formed 15 at its lower tapping end, this cone being preferably somewhat more acute than the angle of repose of the asphalt composition.
• the concentric tubes 10-11 terminate a distance above the cone 15 which means that when tapping takes place by opening the hatch 16 at the bottom of the cone, the asphalt composition flows out substantially to the same extent from all the compartments 14. The result of this is that the small amount of separation occurring in the respective compartment disappears in the homogonizing taking place when the composition runs down along the cone 15.
• structures including circular tubes have been used.
• FIGs 6-8 there is shown an alternative embodiment of the divider 7 accoraing to Figures 2 and 3.
• the divider 20 according to Figures 6-8 comprises a rectangular frame 21 with a shape corresponding substantially to the shape of the vehicle deck en which it is to be used. Inside the frame 21, the frame is divided into substantially square tubes 22 over which the composition is to be tipped.
• the problem with tipping bulk material is that the coarser particles or the coarser part of the ballast strives to come out as far as possible from the actual point of tipping and thus rolls out where there are slopes. It will be seen from Figure 11 that the bulk material is distributed in cross-section so that it forms a hump 22, the coarser particles rolling and coming against the side wall of the deck at 23. Some separation thus takes place here.
• FIGS 15-17 there is shown what takes place when tipping bulk goods takes place on a vehicle deck while it is advancing the whole time in the direction of the arrows 30.
• a divider 20 according to Figures 6-8 prevents separation and the formation of slopes. It will be seen particularly from Figure 16 how no notable slopes are formed.
• the shape according to Figure 17 is then changed during the advance of the vehicle so that the small hump 21 which projects up over the divider 20 is shaken out and the load becomes quite flat. If not, this hump 30 disappears when the divider is lifted away before the vehicle leaves the loading area.
• a spreader 40 according to Figures 18 and 19 at the dischar ge opening 43 gives a uniform discharge of the bulk material with reduced separation.
• the spreader 40 comprises two end members 41, located one at either end therof, and two beams 42 which are triangular in cross-section and have their apexes facing upwards towards the hopper.
• the triangles are right-angular with their hypotenuses facing towards each other and between them defining a gap 44 through which a part of the bulk material flowing down from the hopper can pass.
• the gap 44 is too narrow for all the material which could arrive there, and a part of the material will pass on the outside of the beams 42. This does not depend entirely on what has been said above but also on the upwardly directed apexes of the beams 42 lying within the edges of the discharge opening 43. In the use of this spreader 40, the bulk material will thus be divided into three streams, which then blend together to form a pile or for being spread out over a divider 20 of the kind already mentioned.
• FIGs 20-22 there is illustrated a further embodiment of the separation inhibiting device for bulk goods, this device being intended for placing in an intermediate and/or hot holding hopper.
• the hopper 50 itself comprises a cylindrical drum, at its lower end provided with a closeable discharge opening 51, all of which is conventional.
• the discharge opening 51 may be provided with a spreader 40 of the kind to be seen from Figures 18 and 19.
• a cylindrical funnel 25 is hoistably arranged inside the drum 50.
• the funnel comprises a lower pipe portion 53 which is cylindrical and has a diameter less than half the diameter of the drum 50, and an upper conical portion 54 with an outwardly increasing diameter, its upper diameter being approximately 3/4 of the diameter of the drum 50.
• From the tube portion 53 there are four blades or baffles 55 projecting radially outwards at 90° spacing.
• the movement upwards and downwards of the funnel 52 in the drum takes place with the aid of cables 58 in the illustrated embodiment, upwardly in the drum 59 these cables being taken over unillustrated sheaves to unillustrated hoisting machinery.
• Lowering of the funnel 52 suitably takes place with the aid of gravity.
• the position in height of the funnel is regulated with the aid of a sensing device to suit the amount of bulk material in the silos.
• Hydraulic or pneumatic motor power can be used instead of the cables 58 which are then replaced with piston and cylinder arrangements.
• the funnel 52 is at its lowest position in the drum 50. This is the position for initially filling the drum from tiie skip indicated above it. Material from the skip is collected by the funnel 52 and the latter is raised in time with the supply of material. This means that the funnel is filled all the time, which is apparent from Figures 2211 and 22III and it meets the material falling down from the skip so that the material never forms a pile and thus no coarser ballast material rolls down at the sides to lie in a ring. The drum has the same distribution of the bulk material at this end until the situation where it is filled, as is apparent from Figure 22IV. When tapping from the discharge opening 51, the funnel 52 accompanies the material downwards in the drum 50 and prevents separation in it.
• FIGs 23 and 24 there is illustrated a further variant of the invention, intended for use with containers on trucks, usually for carrying concrete mixes, but- other material such as asphalt composition can also constitute the load.
• the schematically illustrated container 60 which is intended for tipping backwards for emptying, is provided with an array of internal shelves 61 which are attached to the outer walls and also to a longitudinal central wall 62. Both the central wall 62 and shelves 61 terminate a distance from the rear end wall 63 of the container 60.
• the container 60 is completely open upwards and the material which is to be transported in it is filled from above.
• the rear end wall 63 of the container 60 has a spout-like shape so that when tipping the container, the material in it flows out in what can be regarded as a jet. During tipping, which takes place backwards, as mentioned, the ballast runs off backwards from the shelves 61 and a renewed blending of ballast and material takes place against the rear end wall 63 as well as while merging into the mentioned jet.

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