V-Shaped Loader Bucket With Oscillating Release Plate
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bulk product dispensing cups with V-shaped cross-sections face issues with product agglomeration and adhesion to walls, leading to irregular distribution and the need for human intervention to unclog, due to the endless screw digging tunnels and forming vaults, which complicates the control of product dosage.
Innovation Solution
A decompacting device with a separation plate oscillating along a main wall, driven by a geared motor, which moves parallel to the wall to detach the product and allow it to collapse into the bucket, facilitated by a drive wheel and articulations, ensuring regular extraction by the endless screw.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of stationary object
If a V-shaped cross-section bucket is used for storage and transport, then storage capacity and structural stability are improved, but product agglomeration and adhesion to walls occur leading to irregular distribution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the bucket casing deformable rather than rigid. The flexible material allows the bucket to dynamically adapt its shape during operation, preventing product adhesion and agglomeration while maintaining the V-shaped cross-section for storage capacity. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the structure to be both capacity-efficient and distribution-reliable through dynamic deformation.
2Productivity
If an endless screw is used for product extraction, then continuous dispensing is achieved, but the screw digs tunnels in agglomerated product forming vaults that disrupt distribution
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible bucket casing dynamically deforms during the dispensing cycle, preventing the endless screw from digging tunnels in agglomerated product. By adapting the bucket shape in response to product movement and screw operation, the system maintains continuous dispensing while preventing vault formation that would disrupt distribution control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical parameter of the bucket casing from rigid to flexible/deformable. This parameter change allows the bucket to adapt its internal geometry during operation, preventing product adhesion and agglomeration around the endless screw, thereby maintaining both continuous dispensing and distribution control.
3Reliability
If defragmentation devices are installed to break product agglomerations, then product distribution regularity is improved, but device complexity and potential wear on components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the defragmentation function from a separate mechanical device and integrates it into the bucket casing itself through flexible material deformation. The bucket wall dynamically breaks up agglomerations through its deformable nature, eliminating the need for additional defragmentation mechanisms and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining distribution regularity.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible bucket casing serves multiple functions simultaneously: it maintains the V-shaped cross-section for storage, enables continuous dispensing through deformation during operation, and performs defragmentation of agglomerated product. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate defragmentation devices, reducing complexity while improving distribution regularity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables continuous and regular dispensing of difficult-to-pour products like corn and grass silage, preventing vault formation and ensuring a more controlled and efficient distribution with reduced power consumption.
Implementation Method 1
the detachment plate moves parallel to a short distance from the main wall and manages to detach the product from said main wall so that it collapses under the effect of its mass
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a loader (100) for dispensing loose product, of the type consisting of a bucket (200) comprising a front main wall (202) and a rear main wall (204) whose cross sections are V-shaped, and a means of extraction (120) at the intersection between the two walls (202, 204). According to the invention, the loader (100) has a device (300) for decompacting its contents, the device (300) comprising a release plate (310) hinged along a main wall (202, 204) and caused to pivot by a drive means (330). As it moves, the release plate travels parallel to and at a short distance from the main wall and successfully releases the product from said main wall so that it collapses under its own weight into the bottom of the loader where it can then easily be extracted by the extraction means.