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A hood for mounting over the open top of a container for allowing the container to stand inverted on legs of the hood. The container's contents can then be discharged through the open top of the container and the hood chute. The hood includes a latching device for gripping the container and further

A hood for mounting over the open top of a container for allowing the container to stand inverted on legs of the hood. The container's contents can then be discharged through the open top of the container and the hood chute. The hood includes a latching device for gripping the container and further includes movable sockets for engagement by a lifting device required to place the hood on, and remove the hood from, the container. Linkages connect the sockets with the latching device and movement of the sockets, as the hood is lifted by a hood lifting device, moves the latching device from a latching condition, which is so biassed by, for example, compression springs, to a release condition.

대표청구항 ▼

[ I claim:] [1.] A hood for a container having four sides, a base and an open top; the hood comprising a four sided frame with a seating end to sit on top edges of the four sides of a container at the open top of the container, legs on the frame extend away from the seating end of the frame, a disch

[ I claim:] [1.] A hood for a container having four sides, a base and an open top; the hood comprising a four sided frame with a seating end to sit on top edges of the four sides of a container at the open top of the container, legs on the frame extend away from the seating end of the frame, a discharge chute having an entry end and a smaller discharge end with the chute ends separated by a tapered chute body, the chute entry end being fixed to the hood frame adjacent the frame seating end and the chute body extends away from the frame seating end in the same direction as the frame legs, socket means on the hood frame for receiving hood lifting means, said socket means being movable towards and away from the frame seating end between a working position and a rest position where the rest position is closer to said frame seating end than is said working position, latching means on the hood frame connected by linkage to the socket means, biassing means for the latching means, the latching means being movable between a latching condition for coupling the hood to a container and a release condition and is biassed by said biassing means to the latching condition, the latching condition and the release condition of the latching means respectively corresponding with the rest position and the working position of said socket means.