Laying machine and a blade assembly

• US 9,267,620 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2012
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Husqvarna AB (HUSQVARNA)
• Original Assignee: Husqvarna AB (HUSQVARNA)
• Inventors: Sjodahl, Fredrik, Nilsson, Tobias, Gustafsson, Lars, Johansson, Rolf, Meister, Donald F.
• Primary Examiner(s): FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F
• Application Number:
  US13/982,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20140079487A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,489 Days
• Field of Search: 405/174, 405/175, 405/178, 405/180, 405/184.4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 59/025 the lubricating or cooling medium being applied through the mounting means of the tool, e.g. the tool spindle or hub
• CPC Class Codes: B28D 1/045 Sawing grooves in walls; sawing stones from rocks; sawing machines movable on the stones to be cut
• CPC Class Codes: B28D 1/18 by milling, e.g. channelling by means of milling tools
• CPC Class Codes: B28D 7/02 for removing or laying dust, e.g. by spraying liquids; for cooling work
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/0933 rotary, e.g. circular-saw joint cutters
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/188 with the axis being horizontal and transverse to the direction of travel
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/08 with digging wheels turning round an axis E02F5/109 takes precedence; with digging wheels per se E02F3/18
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/10 with arrangements for reinforcing trenches or ditches; with arrangements for making or assembling conduits or for laying conduits or cables laying pipes per se F16L1/00, making pipes in situ F16L1/038; laying electric cables per se H02G1/06; drainage device- laying apparatus E02B11/02
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/101 forming during digging, e.g. underground canalisations or conduits, by bending or twisting a strip of pliable material; by extrusion
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/12 with equipment for back-filling trenches or ditches
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 5/145 control and indicating devices
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 7/02 Conveying equipment mounted on a dredger conveyors in general B65G
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/00 Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00 laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables B66C
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 1/028 in the ground F16L1/026 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 1/032 the pipes being continuous F16L1/038 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 1/06 for laying cables, e.g. laying apparatus on vehicle

Abstract

The present disclosure presents a laying machine for laying at least one flexible casing or tube, cable, or wire. The laying machine includes a blade arrangement for making a trench in the ground. The laying machine can also include a consolidation and laying means being arranged behind the blade arrangement for clearing and safeguarding the trench from collapsing while laying at least one flexible casing or tube, cable or wire into the trench. Additionally, a blade assembly including compartments for cooling fluid and air is presented herein.

Claims

1. A laying machine for laying at least one flexible casing or tube, cable or wire comprising:

a blade arrangement for making a trench in the ground, and

a consolidation and laying means being arranged behind the blade arrangement, for clearing and safeguarding the trench from collapsing while laying at least one flexible casing or tube, cable or wire into the trench, and having a plow front end following the blade arrangement, and having at least one feeding duct that has an inlet at an upper side thereof for receiving a flexible casing or tube, cable, or wire and an outlet at a rear and/or bottom side thereof for feeding the flexible casing or tube, cable, or wire to the trench, wherein the laying machine has at least four wheels, and having one wheel pair at a first side of the machine and the other wheel pair at a second and opposite side of the machine, and the blade arrangement, a disc guard, and the consolidation and laying means are mounted at a first or second side of the machine, and at least one wheel is a drive wheel and at least one wheel is a steering wheel, and at least two of the wheels are connected to each other by at least one bogie arm running in an essentially longitudinal direction of the laying machine to form a longitudinal bogie.

2. A laying machine according to claim 1, wherein at least one longitudinal bogie/s is/are arranged at a side transversally distant from the blade arrangement, each boogie having at least two wheels.

3. A laying machine according to claim 1, wherein the longitudinal bogie is arranged in a position close to the blade arrangement.

4. A laying machine according to claim 1, and means for adjusting the ground clearance on at least one side of the machine, so that the machine can be driven with one wheel pair on a first ground level and the opposite at a higher or lower second ground level, while still keeping the machine leveled.

5. A laying machine according to claim 4, wherein the means for adjusting the ground clearance on at least one side of the machine is a scissor mechanism.

6. A blade assembly for working on a work surface/area/structure, the blade assembly including at least two blades, a first blade and a second blade that are axially aligned, each blade having a working portion at the periphery of the blade, and the working portions of two neighboring blades are spaced apart in an assembly axial direction, and the blade assembly further including a blade assembly central portion around the axial center of the blades for being operated on by a device for driving the blades, a blade assembly support structure extending between the working portion of the blades and the blade assembly central portion;

the blades are spaced apart by a spacer structure/s, said spacer structure/s forming at least one compartment or passage between the blades extending essentially radial towards the working portion, and at least at one radius of the spacer structure/s the at least one compartment or passage covering a significant part of the periphery at that radius of the spacer structure/s, said compartment/s having at least one inlet, for air and/or liquid, being located between the working portion and the axial center of the blades, and the compartment/s or passage/s have at least one air vent on at least both outermost blades alone or in combination with at least one fluid inlet, wherein the at least one air vent and at least one fluid inlet are within a radius not exceeding a first fractional half of the blade radius, said air vent/s for sucking air into the compartments.

7. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the blade assembly central portion is provided by a central portion of each blade and wherein the blade assembly support structure is provided by a blade support structure extending between the working portion and the central portion of each blade.

8. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the at least one compartment or passage is in contact with the central portion and the at least one inlet is at or close to the central portion.

9. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the blade assembly includes three blades, which are each are spaced apart a spacer structure/s, one between the first and second blade and the other between the second and third blade, and wherein the compartment/s includes at least one first compartment between the first and the second blade and at least one second compartment between the second and the third blade.

10. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the inlet/s, a first inlet/s, is provided in the first blade.

11. A blade assembly according to claim 10, wherein at least one of the inlets/s, a second inlet/s is provided in the second blade connecting first compartment/s to opposite located second compartment/s.

12. A blade assembly according to claim 11, wherein the first and the second inlet/s are aligned so that each first inlet is facing a corresponding second inlet.

13. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the compartment/s or passage/s have at least one air vent on at least both outermost blades located on each axial side of the blade assembly for sucking air from both axial sides of the assembly.

14. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the air vent/s is located at a radius further away from the axial center of the blades than the fluid inlet/s.

15. A blade assembly according to claim 14, wherein at least one of the air vent/s, a first air vent/s, is provided in the first blade, for sucking air from outside the blade assembly to the compartment/s or passage/s.

16. A blade assembly according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the air vents/s, a second air vent/s, is provided in the second blade connecting at least one first compartment to at least one opposite located second compartment.

17. A blade assembly according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the air vent/s, a third air vent/s, is provided in the third blade, for sucking air from outside the blade assembly to the compartment/s.

18. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the side walls of the compartment/s or passage/s are defined by the spacer structure.

19. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein at least one axial wall of the compartment/s or passage/s is a neighboring blade.

20. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein said significant part is at least 30%, preferably at least 50%, more preferably at least 70% of the periphery at that radius.

21. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the width of the compartment/s or passage/s is constant or increasing in the direction from the central portion to the working portion.

22. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein each compartment/s or passage/s has two side walls that both extends radially from a predetermined distance from the axial center of the blades.

23. A blade assembly according to claim 22, wherein the compartment/s has a third side wall extending between the two side walls defining the outer edge of the compartment, said third side wall being at a distance closer to the periphery of the blades than to the center of the blades.

24. A blade assembly according to claim 23, wherein the third side wall has at least one aperture.

25. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the compartment/s or passage/s are open ended towards the rim of the blade assembly.

26. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the blade assembly is clamped at the central portion of the blades between an inner member and an outer member, said inner member includes a sleeve for connecting the blade assembly to a blade driving shaft, the inner member also includes a transversally projecting flange surrounding the sleeve, and forming a circular recess between the sleeve and the flange, the free end of the flange have an inward projecting brim partly covering the circular recess, and wherein at the bottom of the recess and adjacent to the flange there are provided at least one channel for connecting to the first inlet/s of the first blade, so that a fluid can be sprayed from a nozzle in the laying machine into the circular recess to move on to the compartment/s or passage/s.

27. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein the compartment/s between two blades are a plurality of compartments that are on at least one radius equidistantly distributed around the blade surface.

28. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein each compartment at least one air vent for sucking air and at least one inlet for receiving cooling fluid.

29. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein said blade assembly is used as a saw blade of a power cutter, wall saw, floor saw, road saw or a fiber laying machine.

30. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the blades includes a plurality of essentially radial extending slots.

31. A blade assembly according to claim 30, wherein the slots extend from a central or inner portion of the blade/s towards the working portion of the blade/s.

32. A blade assembly according to claim 31, wherein a slot is arranged to extend within a compartment or passage of the blade assembly.

33. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein a first sectional saw blade is made up of a first row of primary cutting segments fastened to a carrier blade or a carrier saw blade having a first row of first cutting segments separated by notches around the rim of the blade.

34. A blade assembly according to claim 33, wherein a second sectional saw blade is made up of a second row of secondary cutting segments fastened to the carrier blade or the carrier saw blade, said primary cutting segments being individually secured to one side of the carrier blade or carrier saw blade, and said secondary cutting segments being individually secured to the other side of the carrier blade or carrier saw blade.

35. A blade assembly according to claim 34, wherein the primary and the secondary cutting segments are secured to the blade in pairs, one pair consisting of a primary and a secondary cutting segment that are laterally aligned.

36. A blade assembly according to claim 34, wherein the secondary cutting segments are placed so that they overlap the notches of the carrier saw blade.

37. A blade assembly according to claim 33, wherein the cuttings segments of the sectional saw blades are detachably mounted to the blade, so that they can be replaced when worn out.

38. A blade assembly according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the blades is a ring blade, having an inlet inside of its inner rim.

39. A blade assembly according to claim 38, wherein the at least one ring blade is at least three ring blades.

40. A blade assembly for working on a work surface/area/structure, the blade assembly including at least two blades, a first blade and a second blade, that are axially aligned, each blade having a working portion at the periphery of the blade and a central portion around the axial center of the blade for being operated on by a device for driving the blade assembly, a blade support structure extending between the working portion and the central portion characterized in that the blades are spaced apart by a spacer structure/s, including a central hub that provides support at the central portion, and a plurality of fan blade shaped supports that provides support at the blade support structure and functions as fan blades, said blade assembly having at least one air vent on at least both outermost blades, said air vent being within a radius not exceeding the first fractional half of the blade radius.

41. A blade assembly according to claim 40, wherein at least one fluid inlet is provided at the central portion.

42. A blade assembly according to any of claim 41, wherein at least one of the blades includes a plurality of essentially radial extending slots.