Pavement roller attachment for grading vehicle

• US 3,072,025 A
• Filed: 05/24/1960
• Issued: 01/08/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stephen J. Cronin
• Original Assignee: Stephen J. Cronin
• Inventors: Cronin, Stephen J.
• Application Number:
  US04/031,408
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• US Class Current: 404/127
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/268 designed for rolling surfaces not situated in the plane of the riding surface of the apparatus, e.g. stepped-down surfaces, sloping edge of surfacing trench rollers E02D3/032; slope rollers E02D3/039
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20256 Steering and controls assemblies

Claims

1. IN A VEHICLE HAVING A BOOM SWINGABLY MOUNTED THEREON, AND A RECIPROCABLE ROD MOUNTED GENERALLY LONGITUDINALLY ALONG SAID BOOM AND POWER MEANS MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID BOOM FOR MOVING SAID RECIPROCABLE ROD, THE IMPROVEMENT OF A PLATE PIVOTALLY MOUNTED AT THE DISTAL END OF SAID BOOM, MEANS BETWEEN SAID BOOM AND SAID PLATE FOR HOLDING SAID PLATE IN ADJUSTED POSITION WITH RESPECT TO SAID BOOM, A SECOND PLATE DISPOSED UNDER AND ADAPTED TO ROTATE AGAINST SAID FIRST PLATE, SAID SECOND PLATE HAVING SPACED DEPENDING ARMS BETWEEN WHICH IS JOURNALED A PAVEMENT ROLLER, AND ROTATABLE MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID RECIPROCABLE ROD AND SAID SECOND PLATE, WHEREBY RECIPROCATION OF SAID ROD ROTATES SAID SECOND PLATE AND ROLLER AS A UNIT.