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Road roller

  • US 4,662,779 A
  • Filed: 08/30/1985
  • Issued: 05/05/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A road roller comprising a pair of rotatable roller drums, each roller drum having axially opposite end portions, means for establishing an axis of rotation of each roller drum, means for interconnecting said roller drums for relative pivotal movement between a first position at which said roller drums are generally in line with the direction of travel with the axes thereof generally parallel and a second position at which said roller drums are generally laterally offset relative to each other in the direction of travel, said pivotal interconnecting means includes a generally vertical pivot axis lying generally in the plane of the axis of rotation of one of said roller drums and adjacent one of the axial end portions of said one roller drum, a pair of frames positioned one relative to each of said one and second roller drums, said pair of frames each having opposite first and second end portions, a carrier disposed in the direction of travel and generally transversely to said axes of rotation in said first and second positions, said carrier having opposite end portions, one of said carrier end portions being connected at said vertical pivot axis by said pivotal interconnecting means to said one roller drum frame first end portion, and a second of said carrier end portions being permanently rigidly fixed to said second roller drum frame first end portion.

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