Burn Bucket With Lifting Interface And Movable Door
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Solution Overview
Problem
55-gallon barrels used for burning scrap material in rural, agricultural, and construction environments are prone to wear, corrosion, and damage due to repeated tilting and heating, leading to a short lifespan of about one year.
Innovation Solution
A burn bucket design featuring a body with a moveable door and a lifting machine interface, including a front-loader coupler and forklift channels, that allows for easy tilting and dumping of ash without welding, reducing heat distortion through flanges and corrugations, and enhancing airflow with a screen lid for improved functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a 55-gallon barrel is used for burning scrap material, then burning efficiency is achieved, but the barrel accumulates wear, corrosion, and damage from repeated tilting and heating, reducing its lifespan to about one year
Solution Approach 1:
The burn bucket is divided into separate functional components: a removable door assembly, a lifting machine interface, and the main body. This segmentation allows the door to be independently replaced when worn, while the main body retains durability benefits, extending overall system lifespan beyond the traditional single-unit barrel design.
Solution Approach 2:
The door is designed to be moveable rather than fixed, allowing it to pivot between closed and open positions. This dynamic design enables easy access for loading and dumping without requiring complete barrel disassembly or tipping, reducing mechanical stress on the entire structure during operation.
2Ease of operation
If the barrel is tipped to dump ash, then ash disposal is achieved, but the repeated tipping wears and damages the barrel and makes the process difficult and time consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The door is separated from the main body as an independent component that can be opened without tipping the entire bucket. This allows ash to be dumped by simply opening the door while the bucket remains in position, eliminating the repeated tipping motion that causes wear and damage to traditional barrels.
Solution Approach 2:
The lifting machine interface acts as an intermediary mechanism between the operator and the bucket contents. By providing standardized attachment points for front loaders and forklifts, it enables controlled tilting and dumping operations that reduce manual handling and minimize stress on the bucket structure.
3Strength
If the lifting machine interface is coupled directly to the body, then structural integrity is maintained, but heat distortion occurs due to proximity to the fire
Solution Approach 1:
A spacer serves as an intermediary thermal barrier between the lifting machine interface and the fire. This spacer maintains the necessary structural connection while creating sufficient thermal distance to prevent heat distortion of the lifting interface, allowing both structural integrity and heat protection to coexist.
4Ease of operation
If the door pivot axis is positioned closer to the front surface, then door opening is facilitated, but heat distortion increases due to closer proximity to the fire
Solution Approach 1:
The pivot axis is positioned as an intermediary element between the door and the fire source. By locating it between the front surface and rear surface of the bucket, it enables effective door operation while maintaining sufficient distance from the fire to minimize thermal distortion of the pivot mechanism.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments are directed toward a burn bucket. The burn bucket preferably includes a body, a door moveably coupled to the body, and a lifting machine interface coupled to the body. The body preferably defines an inner burn space. The lifting machine interface is preferably configured to receive a portion of a machine that tilts the burn bucket to transition the burn bucket between a closed configuration in which the door is closed and a dumping configuration in which the door is open to facilitate dumping burnt material out of the inner burn space.