Shoulder roller attachment for road rollers

• US 3,146,686 A
• Filed: 07/23/1962
• Issued: 09/01/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Reuben H. Arnold, William E. Grace
• Original Assignee: Reuben H. Arnold, William E. Grace
• Inventors: Grace, William E., Arnold, Reuben H.
• Application Number:
  US04/211,651
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• US Class Current: 404/127
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/266 fitted to vehicles, road-construction or earth-moving machinery, e.g. auxiliary roll readily movable to operative position E01C19/268, E01C19/4806, E01C19/488, E01C19/52, E01C21/00, E01C23/065 take precedence; provided with means for facilitating transport; Means for transporting rollers; Arrangements or attachments for converting vehicles into rollers, e.g. rolling sleeves for wheels
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/27 with elastically-deformable rolling elements, e.g. pneumatic tyres E01C19/231 takes precedence ; vibrating or impacting E01C19/28
• CPC Class Codes: E02D 3/039 Slope rollers

Claims

1. A SHOULDER ROLLING ATTACHMENT FOR A ROAD ROLLER, COMPRISING A PAIR OF PARALLEL ARMS, HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED TO ONE END OF EACH ARM AND ATTACHABLE TO A SIDE OF THE ROLLER FOR ELEVATING THE ONE END OF EACH ARM WITH RESPECT TO THE ROLLER, A RECTANGULAR FRAME HAVING TWO OPPOSING SIDE RAILS AND OPPOSING FRONT AND REAR RAILS, MEANS PIVOTALLY ENGAGING INTERMEDIATE POINTS OF THE FRONT AND REAR RAILS TO OTHER ENDS OF THE ARMS RESPECTIVELY, AN AXLE SUPPORTED BY THE OPPOSING SIDE RAILS OF THE FRAME, A PLURALITY OF WHEELS FOR ROLLING THE SHOULDER SUPPORTED SIDE-BY-SIDE ON THE AXLE WITHIN THE FRAME, AND OTHER HYDRAULICALLY OPERATED MEANS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE ARMS NEAR THE OTHER ENDS THEREOF AND ATTACHABLE TO THE ROLLER FOR ELEVATING THE FRAME AND WHEELS WITH RESPECT TO THE ROLLER, SAID WHEELS HAVING TIRES THEREON FOR ROLLING THE SHOULDER.