Apparatus for soil cement stabilization

• US 3,326,101 A
• Filed: 06/08/1965
• Issued: 06/20/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James L. Rawson, Richard F. Brisbin
• Original Assignee: James L. Rawson, Richard F. Brisbin
• Inventors: Brisbin, Richard F., Rawson, James L.
• Application Number:
  US04/462,266
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• US Class Current: 404/102
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/2045 spreading by means of an endless belt or like conveyor
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 2019/2095 by tipping

Claims

1. IN AN APPARATUS FOR SPREADING CEMENT, A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR FOUR-SIDED CASING HAVING AN OPEN BOTTOM, THE OPPOSITE SHORTER SIDES BEING EQUIPPED WITH WHEELS FOR ADVANCING SAID CASING PARALLEL TO SAID SHOTER SIDES, ONE OF SAID LONGER SIDES PROVIDING THE REAR OF SAID CASING AND EQUIPPED ALONG ITS LOWER EDGE WITH A GATE MOVABLY ATTACHED TO SAID CASING,THE OTHER OF SAID LONGER SIDES BEING INCLINED AT AN ANGLE RELATIVE TO THE HORIZONTAL GREATER THAN THE ANGLE OF REPOSE OF SAID CEMENT, A PAIR OF SHAFTS MOUNTED IN SPACED APART PARALLEL RELATION IN SAID CASING BELOW SAID GATE, SAID SHAFTS HAVING AN ENDLESS BELT ENTRAINED THEREON, SAID CASING BEING EQUIPPED WITH A REMOVABLY MOUNTED FRAME ADJACENT THE BOTTOM THEREOF, SAID FRAME INCLUDING A PAIR OF SPACED TRANSVERSE MEMBERS ROTATABLY SUPPORTING SAID SHAFTS, EACH OF SAID MEMBERS BEING EQUIPPED WITH WEDGE-SURFACED ELEMENTS ON THE SIDES THEREOF ADJACENT THE OTHER MEMBERS, A PLURALITY OF BLOCKS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID MEMBERS AND HAVING A LATERALLY DISPOSED TRACK MEANS RECEIVING SAID ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID BLOCKS TRANSVERSELY OF SAID CASING, MEANS COUPLING SAID CASING AND SAID GATE FOR SELECTIVELY VARYING THE SPACING OF SAID GATE AND BELT.