Title: Bulk bed

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Abstract: A bulk bed for receiving and discharging bulk quantities of articles such as sugar beets, potatoes, grain, and other material that may be stored in bulk condition. The bulk bed includes an upwardly open bin having downwardly converging side walls. An endless conveyor belt extends along a bottom wall of the bin. It is utilized to urge the material toward a discharge end of the bin. Material exits through a door at one end of the bin. The conveyor belt is made up of a multiplicity of overlapped sections of belting material that are rigidly connected at their leading edges to an endless chain. The chain is in meshing engagement with sprockets at opposite ends of the bin. The belting sections include trailing edges that are not fixed to the chains and are thus able to drop clear of the chain as it moves around the conveyor discharge end. This feature serves to clear dirt and other material from the area beneath the belt working flight and to prevent binding of the chain links. The trailing edges of the belt sections overlap the adjacent leading edges of successive belt sections in order to form a continuous flat surface across the full length of the bed. One of two doors may be opened at the rearward end of the bed to enable discharge of material in response to movement of the conveyor working flight toward the discharge end. Thus, bulk material may be quickly and efficiently discharge from the bin.


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