Soil packer and pulverizer

• US 3,338,315 A
• Filed: 03/22/1965
• Issued: 08/29/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis Ketel
• Original Assignee: Louis Ketel
• Inventors: LOUIS KETEL
• Application Number:
  US04/441,546
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• US Class Current: 172/537
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 29/041 of "Cambridge"-type, i.e. the soil-pressing rings being stacked on a shaft

Claims

1. AN EARTH WORKING PULVERZIER FOR PULVERIZING AND COMPACTING SOIL COMPRISING A MAIN TRANSVERSE MEMBER HAVING TWO ENDS, RESILIENT BEARING MEANS ON SAID TRANSVERSE MEMBER PRESENTING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL SURFACE HAVING A DIAMETER AND A PLURALITY OF PULVERIZING RINGS HAVING CENTRAL APERTURES SUBSTANTIALLY LARGER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID BEARING MEANS AND FOR CONFINING SAID PULVERIZING RINGS BETWEEN THE ENDS OF SAID TRANSVERSE MEMBER, EACH SAID PULVERIZING RING COMPRISING AN OUTER CIRCUMFERENTIAL FLANGE HAVING EARTH WORKING MEANS MOUNTED THEREON, AN INNER CIRCUMFERENTIAL FLANGE SPACED INWARDLY FROM SAID OUTER FLANGE AND A CENTRAL UPSTANDING WEB CONNECTING SAID FLANGES, AND SAID BEARING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SPACED APART RESILIENT BEARING POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID INNER FLANGE AND SPACING RING MEANS POSITIONED IN THE SPACES BETWEEN SAID BEARING FOR INTERMITTENTLY ENGAGING AN EDGE OF SAID INNER FLANGE