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Unique
Projects
 World’s
largest articulated airport crash- rescue vehicle.
Klein Products, Inc. in conjunction
with Caterpillar Tractor and The United States Government,
designed and manufactured a 13,000 U.S. gallon capacity
Crash-Rescue vehicle for the C-5A military program.
We designed and manufactured the tank and discharge
equipment.
Compost
turning machine. Built
for California Mushroom Co. This unusual, custom built
machine incorporated a modified back hoe installed on
a Hyster lumber carrier. This machine would straddle
rows of manure and straw and turn over this material
during compost process without allowing it to cause
spontaneous combustion.
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 Mobile
concrete receiver/ transport vehicle.
To facilitate improved production
in the construction of the Feather River Canal
and San Luis Dam in Northern California, Klein
Products, Inc. designed and manufactured a mobile
concrete receiver/ transport vehicle. Built on
Caterpillar D6 undercarriages this unique vehicle
received hot concrete and fed the concrete skreat
which lined the canal.
Feed
lot watering equipment. A
Cattle company had a problem with feed lot dust
causing lung and respiratory problems with the
feeder cattle. Klein solved the problem by designing
a machine that traveled very slowly between the
feed lot pens and delivered a misty "rain’
evenly and consistently from 1 foot to 250 feet
away from machine. This "rain" prevented
dust and the subsequent lung problems. The unique
design of this vehicle enabled complete coverage
of feed lot in one pass.
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 Mobile
Ladle Carrier. Klein
Products, Inc. in conjunction with the late Richard
D. Klein designed and manufactured a huge 450
ton mobile ladle carrier. Designed for Ford Motor
Company, this unique machine transported hot,
molten steel in steel mills.
Quick
lube pit equipment. Klein
Products, Inc. in conjunction with our Nations
major oil companies and various contractors, designed,
manufactured and installed oil tanks, structural
steel and other lube/fuel equipment in the original
"quick-lube" oil changing business.
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 Gypsum
loading machine. Very
unique, custom built machine designed to travel
at slow speeds while scooping up uncrushed gypsum
from wind rows, transporting with conveyor into
a rock crusher being towed by a loading machine.
Built around a Michigan loader as the prime mover
vehicle.
Portable
fuel storage/ discharge tanks for Automobile race
tracks. Klein
Products, Inc. designed and manufactured above
ground, quick fueling, discharge tank systems
for The Ontario Motor Speedway. These tanks provided
quick fuel recovery to race cars during races
in pit row.
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 Self-
loading scraper. During
the time others invented the "paddle wheel"
type scraper, all the designs were focused around
new carry all scraper units that provided a false
floor to remove or dump their dirt load. Klein came
up with a design to convert a standard bowl scraper
to a paddle wheel scraper utilizing a paddle wheel
system that moved on a track that would put the
system out of the way for a standard tail gate to
push the dirt load out of the bowl. Thus not requiring
owners of standard scrapers the need to purchase
a complete new machine. Klein built several models
to fit Caterpillar, Wabco, Allis Chalmers and Clark
Michigan scrapers. |
 Military
"air drop" water equipment.
Klein Products, Inc. in conjunction
with Caterpillar Tractor and The United States Government
designed and manufactured self contained, mobile
water tankers and discharge equipment attached to
Caterpillar tractors to be dropped out of Military
aircraft in support of our Countries military men
and women in war time war zones. |
Innovations
Inventions,
Patented
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