Ambulatory tar applicator

• US 3,946,722 A
• Filed: 12/07/1973
• Issued: 03/30/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert J. Banahan
• Original Assignee: Robert J. Banahan
• Inventors: Banahan, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Dea, William F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Capossela, Ronald C.
• Application Number:
  US05/422,741
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: 126/343.5 R, 126/343.5 A, 126/19.5
• US Class Current: 126/343.50A
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/174 Apparatus with pump-discharge
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/178 Elements or attachments for spreading-out or smoothing-down the applied material, e.g. brushes
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 15/07 for handling roofing or sealing material in bulk form

Abstract

A mobile applicator for roofing tar having advance spray nozzles followed by spreader brushes carried on a wheeled motorized chassis which also supports a tar hopper which is maintained in heated condition and agitated by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine which drives the apparatus, the engine exhaust being selectively ported to heat the hopper or to by pass the same when the liquid tar becomes sufficiently hot to prevent overheating and also to maintain the lines from the hopper to the spray hot to prevent solidification of the sealant, viz., the tar.

Claims

1. In a mobile roof tarring device, storage means for containing a quantity of molten tar compound, and combined unitary means for:

a. heating the compound in said storage means to melt the same and for maintaining the compound in a fluid state and for

b. agitating the compound for maintaining the same in said fluid state and for enhancing the flow of said compound from the hopper and through associated distributing means, and

said means for heating and agitating the compound comprising an internal combustion engine and means for conducting exhaust gases therefrom, including a heat exchanger means in heat transfer relation to the storage means, and a temperature control by-pass valve in said exhaust conducting means for diverting the exhaust gases from the heat exchanger means to an area providing localized heating of the storage means.

2. The invention according to claim 1 and said unitary means comprising pulsating heated gases, and means for circulating such gases about the storage means.

3. The invention according to claim 1 and means for inhibiting heating of said compound while continuing agitation of the compound to maintain the same in fluid state.

4. The invention according to claim 1 and said device comprising an ambulatory unit and said storage means and unitary means supported thereon in counterbalancing relation.

5. The invention according to claim 4 and said unitary means comprising said internal combustion engine and ducting for porting the exhaust gases to the storage means for heating and vibrating the same.

6. The invention according to claim 1 and said area comprising outlet port means for the storage means.