Automatic cleaned drain piping system on crosshead type two-stroke engines. The invention is having a slow rotating centreless flexible spiral auger fixed mounted in the piping system.

Automatic cleaned drain piping system on crosshead type two-stroke engines. The invention is having a slow rotating centreless flexible spiral auger fixed mounted in the piping system.

A transport device for conveying a flowable material, comprises a screw conveyor for collecting the fluid from a collecting zone and transporting the fluid to a destination zone. The screw conveyor comprises a spiral which is wound around a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and an outer casing which at least partly houses the spiral. The spiral has a plurality of turns. The outer casing has an inner surface facing respective head surfaces of at least some turns. Between two consecutive turns and the outer casing there is a compartment. The outer casing is made at least partly from a deformable polymeric material in such a way that the outer casing deforms radially and reversibly towards the outside when a solid particle of the flowable material conveyed by the spiral is interposed between a head surface of one turn and the inner surface of the outer casing, to allow the solid particle to be transferred from one compartment to a further compartment adjacent to said compartment passing between the head surface of the turn and the inner surface of the outer casing.

A transport device for conveying a flowable material, comprises a screw conveyor for collecting the fluid from a collecting zone and transporting the fluid to a destination zone. The screw conveyor comprises a spiral which is wound around a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and an outer casing which at least partly houses the spiral. The spiral has a plurality of turns. The outer casing has an inner surface facing respective head surfaces of at least some turns. Between two consecutive turns and the outer casing there is a compartment. The outer casing is made at least partly from a deformable polymeric material in such a way that the outer casing deforms radially and reversibly towards the outside when a solid particle of the flowable material conveyed by the spiral is interposed between a head surface of one turn and the inner surface of the outer casing, to allow the solid particle to be transferred from one compartment to a further compartment adjacent to said compartment passing between the head surface of the turn and the inner surface of the outer casing.

A system and related method of applying forage treatment material to harvested forage is provided. The method can include harvesting forage, rotating a flexible auger in a bin and in a curved or angled part of a tube to convey a granular treatment material toward harvested forage moving in a chute to mix the material with the harvested forage. The system can include a flexible auger having a helical blade that extends around an auger central passageway. The auger rotates and augers the granular treatment material with the blade out of the bin. The auger can extend into a curved portion of the tube, taking on a curved configuration extending into the curved portion so that the auger extends along a curvilinear axis and includes a curvilinear portion that is rotationally constrained in the tube.

A system and related method of applying forage treatment material to harvested forage is provided. The method can include harvesting forage, rotating a flexible auger in a bin and in a curved or angled part of a tube to convey a granular treatment material toward harvested forage moving in a chute to mix the material with the harvested forage. The system can include a flexible auger having a helical blade that extends around an auger central passageway. The auger rotates and augers the granular treatment material with the blade out of the bin. The auger can extend into a curved portion of the tube, taking on a curved configuration extending into the curved portion so that the auger extends along a curvilinear axis and includes a curvilinear portion that is rotationally constrained in the tube.

A system and related method of applying forage treatment material to harvested forage is provided. The method can include harvesting forage, rotating a flexible auger in a bin and in a curved or angled part of a tube to convey a granular treatment material toward harvested forage moving in a chute to mix the material with the harvested forage. The system can include a flexible auger having a helical blade that extends around an auger central passageway. The auger rotates and augers the granular treatment material with the blade out of the bin. The auger can extend into a curved portion of the tube, taking on a curved configuration extending into the curved portion so that the auger extends along a curvilinear axis and includes a curvilinear portion that is rotationally constrained in the tube.

A system and related method of applying forage treatment material to harvested forage is provided. The method can include harvesting forage, rotating a flexible auger in a bin and in a curved or angled part of a tube to convey a granular treatment material toward harvested forage moving in a chute to mix the material with the harvested forage. The system can include a flexible auger having a helical blade that extends around an auger central passageway. The auger rotates and augers the granular treatment material with the blade out of the bin. The auger can extend into a curved portion of the tube, taking on a curved configuration extending into the curved portion so that the auger extends along a curvilinear axis and includes a curvilinear portion that is rotationally constrained in the tube.

Automatic cleaned drain piping system on crosshead type two-stroke engines. The invention is having a slow rotating centreless flexible spiral auger fixed mounted in the piping system. The purpose of the invention is to constant avoiding build-up of deposit inside the drain pipes during normal operation. My invention will prevent partly or full blockage of the drain piping. The invention will help to trouble free, reliable and safe continued operation of two-stroke crosshead type engines. The invention will give dramatic savings in man-hours, cleaning chemicals and materials used during manual pipe cleaning. The invention is suitable for mounting during construction of new engines as well as for retrofit. The purpose of the very slow rotating auger is solely to keep heavy, solid and slow flowing particles moving along with the freely flowing oil, thus avoiding deposit building up inside the pipe. The slow rotation speed of the auger inside the pipe creates a scraping action on the lower part of the pipe inner wall, thereby keeping heavy, solid and slow flowing particles in motion.

A talc applicator is provided for use with agricultural equipment such as grain carts and seed tenders. The talc applicator includes a supply hopper with a trough, a discharge, a feed auger extending through the trough and discharge, and an agitator assembly positioned in the supply hopper immediately above the feed auger and trough. The agitator assembly includes a drive gear driven by the drive element of the feed auger and an elongated agitator element including at least two elongate bars and a plurality of angled crossbars connecting the two elongate bars. The agitator element rotates to assist with flow of talc into the trough so that the feed auger can move the talc to the other agricultural equipment. The talc applicator may also be provided with a hydraulic motor and a flexible flighting in the feed auger.