Wheeled compactor of the trailer types

• US 3,291,013 A
• Filed: 03/04/1964
• Issued: 12/13/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Larry J. Stolp
• Original Assignee: Larry J. Stolp
• Inventors: Stolp, Larry J.
• Application Number:
  US04/349,272
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• US Class Current: 404/128
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/27 with elastically-deformable rolling elements, e.g. pneumatic tyres E01C19/231 takes precedence ; vibrating or impacting E01C19/28

Claims

1. A COMPACTOR UNIT OF THE WHEELED TRAILER TYPE ADAPTED TO BE USED WITH AND TOWED BY A TRACTION UNIT FOR POWER AND CONTROL, SAID COMPACTOR UNIT COMPRISNG, IN COMBINATION, A COMPACTOR WHEEL CHASSIS FRAME, A PLURALITY OF COMPACTOR WHEELS ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID CHASSIS FRAME FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS TRANSVERSE TO THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF THE TRACTION UNIT, SAID COMPACTOR WHEELS INDEPENDENTLY SPRUNG TO PERMIT EACH OF THE PLURALITY OF COMPACTOR WHEELS TO FOLLOW GROUND CONTOURS, DETACHABLE HITCH MEANS AFFIXED TO THE MOUNTING FRAME AND ADAPTED TO BE ATTACHED ON THE REAR END PORTION OF THE TRACTION UNIT THEREBY AFFORDING A MOUNTING STATION FOR SAID DETACHABLE HITCH MEANS, MEANS OPERABLY CONNECTING THE TRACION UNIT WITH SAID COMPACTOR UNIT WHEREBY SAID COMPACTOR UNIT AND ITS MOUNTED COMPACTOR WHEELS MAY BE RAISED OR LOWERED ONTO OR OFF OF GROUND ENGAGEMENT AND SHIFTING MEANS OPERABLY CONNECTED TO THE TRACTION UNIT AND THE COMPACTOR UNIT WHEREBY SAID COMPACTOR UNIT AND ITS MOUNTED COMPACTOR WHEELS MAY BE SHIFTED LATERALLY RELATIVE TO THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE TRACTION UNIT IN RESPONSE TO MANIPULATION BY THE OPERATOR OF THE TRACTION UNIT WHEREBY THE OPERATOR OF THE TRACTION UNIT MAY RAISE, AND LATERALLY MOVE, SAID COMPACTOR UNIT TO PERMIT TURNING OF THE TRACTION UNIT WITHOUT DAMAGE TO THE SURFACE COMPACTED BY SAID COMPACTOR UNIT AND TO PERMIT COMPLETE COMPACTION BY SAID COMPACTOR UNIT A PREDETERMINED TRANSVERSE DISTANCE FROM THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE TRACTION UNIT.