Roadway maintenance apparatus

• US 3,217,620 A
• Filed: 10/17/1961
• Issued: 11/16/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cyril B. Rogers, Kenneth H. Mindrum
• Original Assignee: Cyril B. Rogers, Kenneth H. Mindrum
• Inventors: Mindrum, Kenneth H., Rogers, Cyril B.
• Application Number:
  US04/145,700
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• US Class Current: 404/90
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/285 with attachments for work other than rolling, e.g. dozer blades, shoes for conversion into plate vibrator; fitted to vehicles, road-construction or earth-moving machinery E01C19/29, E01C19/4806, E01C19/488, E01C19/52, E01C21/00, E01C23/065 take precedence; vibrated or the like auxiliary rolls, e.g. for rolling road edges; provided with means for facilitating transport
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/4853 Apparatus designed for railless operation, e.g. crawler-mounted, provided with portable trackway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/06 Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface working freshly laid paving E01C19/42 - E01C19/44, E01C23/02; mining picks E21C35/18; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/0885 with vertical or steeply inclined rotary axis

Claims

1. A SELF-PROPELLED ROAD REPAIR VEHICLE COMPRISING AN OPERATOR'"'"''"'"'S STATION, A MOUNTING MEMBER MEANS MOUNTING SAID MOUNTING MEMBER ON SAID VEHICLE FOR MOVEMENT BOTH LONGITUDINALLY AND LATERALLY THERETO TO HAVE WHEN THE VEHICLE IS STATIONARY AN AMBIT DEFINED BY ITS LONGITUDINAL AND LATERAL MOVEMENTS, A PLURALITY OF ROAD REPAIR ELEMENTS ADJUSTABLY MOUNTED ON SAID MOUNTING MEMBER FOR POSITIONING THEREBY AT A ROAD SURFACE CAVITY WITHIN SAID AMBIT AND VISIBLE IN ALL POSITIONS THEREOF FROM SAID STATION, POSITIONING MEANS INCLUDING SAID MOUNTING MEMBER FOR SEQUENTIALLY DISPOSING SAID REPAIR ELEMENTS IN THE RESPECTIVE OPERATIVE POSITIONS THEREOF, A STORAGE HOPPER MOUNTED ON THE VEHICLE FOR TRANSMITTING ROAD PATCHING MATERIAL, MEANS EXTENDING FROM SAID HOPPER FOR CONVEYING PATCHING MATERIAL THEREFROM TO SUCH CAVITY, AND RESPECTIVE MOTIVE MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID MOUNTING MEMBER, REPAIR ELEMENTS, AND CONVEYING MEANS IN STATIONARY CONDITION OF THE VEHICLE, SAID REPAIR ELEMENTS INCLUDING A ROUTING IMPLEMENT FOR TRIMMING SUCH CAVITY BEFORE DELIVERY OF PATCHING MATERIAL THERETO AND A TAMPING IMPLEMENT FOR PACKING AND LEVELING PATCHING MATERIAL DELIVERY TO THE CAVITY.