GRAIN STORAGE Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, storages for grain, groats and other agricultural products. SUBSTANCE: storage has hermetically sealed vessel of vacuum-tight construction connected with vacuumizer. Vessel has cylinder mounted on supports and closed at top and bottom ends with cones provided with branch pipe, slide bars and metal woven adsorber. Cylinder and cone walls are manufactured from light-weight three-layer precut panels of vacuum-tight construction. Vacuumizer has electric vacuum pump fixed on top cone of vessel and connected with electric generator or photoelectric batteries for converting radiation into electric current. Vacuumizer is further provided with vacuum pipeline equipped with slide bar and adapted for receiving grain, and vacuum gage. EFFECT: increased efficiency by reduced labor consumption for constructing storage. 1 dwg