US 12,290,026 B2
Apparatus for storing dry material
Mark Frederick Hryniuk, Saskatoon (CA)
Filed by Mark Frederick Hryniuk, Saskatoon (CA)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/684,789.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/200,409, filed on Mar. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0279727 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A01F 25/18 (2006.01); A01F 25/13 (2006.01); A01F 25/16 (2006.01); A01F 25/22 (2006.01)
CPC A01F 25/186 (2013.01) [A01F 25/13 (2013.01); A01F 25/166 (2013.01); A01F 25/22 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for storing dry agricultural material comprising:
at least one horizontal semi-cylindrical storage module having a center, an interior, an exterior, a long axis, a first terminal wall and a second terminal wall; and
at least one aeration tube of a perforated material, coaxial with said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis, piercing said first terminal wall and said second terminal wall; and
at least one upper auger residing above said aeration tube and parallel to said semi-cylindrical storage module long axis; and
said at least one upper auger having a clockwise thread disposed from approximately a center of the semi-cylindrical storage module to said first terminal wall; and having a counter-clockwise thread disposed from approximately the center of the semi-cylindrical storage module to said second terminal wall; wherein
feeding dry agricultural material into the center of said at least one upper auger, while said auger is rotating, disperses said dry agricultural material from the center toward the first terminal wall and second terminal wall of said storage module.