Bulk crop transportation
CA 1324779 C · Owner: Shiers, William F. · Inventors: Cross, John V.; Shiers, William F.
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Two systems of transporting grain or other bulk crop employ a grain handling trailer incorporating a pair of weighing hoppers with a grain loading system for the hoppers and a grain discharge system. In one system the mobile grain handling truck visits storage containers in the production area and acts to weigh and grade the crop on site before discharging it into haulage trucks for delivery to a rail hub. At the rail hub a grade unloading apparatus is provided comprising a two-storey enclosed building with the road trucks positioned vertically above and parallel to a section of rail on which rail cars can be positioned for receiving by gravity the discharged crop. In the second system the …
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- Granted November 30, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 30, 2010.
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