Portable ice storage and dispensing system
CA 2107964 C · Owner: Post-Harvest Technologies, Incorporated · Inventors: Crabb, Richard V. Jr.
Overview
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A movable bulk storage bin for ice or other friable materials including a head rack base, tail rack base, drive end base and discharge end base which, fasten into pre-punched attachment holes to form a foundation frame. Corner posts mounted on the foundation frame are notched to receive a plurality of wall panels for containment of the material which is deposited via conveying means into the top of the bulk storage bin. Located within the foundation frame and parallel to the rack bases is a discharge conveyor which receives material such as ice from a traversing auger. A rack and pinion gear at each end of the traversing auger, in cooperation with carriages and drive motors causes the …
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- Filed October 7, 1993 and granted October 16, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 7, 2013.
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