Abstract: A vibrator for compacting construction materials has a housing having a housing mantle with a first end face and a cylindrical interior. The housing has an upper part for closing the housing at the first end face. The upper part is axially inserted into the housing mantle and secured in a closing position thereof against axial displacement. A radially inwardly extending support surface is connected within the housing mantle. An electric motor is drivingly connected to an unbalanced shaft. The electric motor has an inner rotor end an outer cylindrical stator pack end is inserted into the housing mantle from the first end face. The stator pack has a recess and is inserted into the housing mantle with sliding fit and secured against rotation. A spreading element made of spring steel for securing the stator pack is inserted into the housing mantle through the first end face and positioned on the stator pack before closing the housing to be clamped between the support surface and the upper housing part.

Abstract: A vibrating tamping float for smoothing the top surface of freshly poured concrete, pushing coarse aggregates down into the concrete while allowing cream to surface, and reducing a formation of large air pockets in the concrete, includes a float body having a bottom surface and a pushing device for pushing coarse aggregates down into the concrete while allowing cream to surface. The pushing device includes a plurality of ribs mounted on the bottom surface of the float body. The ribs have a ramp on front and rear portions thereof for providing a smooth entrance into the concrete and pushing coarse aggregates downward as they are slid back and forth in the concrete. A vibrator is provided on the float body for vibrating the float body to reduce a formation of large air pockets in the concrete, to aid in pushing the coarse aggregates on the surface down into the concrete, and to aid in leveling-off and smoothing the top surface of the concrete.

Abstract: An attachment for a slip forming paver for automatically finishing concrete surfaces which includes an elongated concrete smoothing trowel member. A mechanism is provided for oscillating the trowel member back and forth along its longitudinal axis and includes another mechanism for moving the oscillating mechanism and the trowel member itself transversely with respect to such longitudinal axis. The trowel member is pivotally mounted to the oscillating mechanism by a pair of levers and a winch and cable mechanism is provided for selectively adjusting the effective weight of the trowel member with respect to the concrete being smoothed by the trowel member. A turnbuckle arrangement is provided for adjustably maintaining the lower surface of the trowel member straight and smooth by applying tension forces thereon. To the extent that the weight adjusting mechanism and the turnbuckle arrangement move the trowel member out of balance, a single weight is provided, on the end opposite the winch.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vibrator roller for soil compaction, comprising an undercarriage having at least two roller drums disposed one after the other in the travel direction. Front and rear imbalance generators in the form of weights rotating with 180.degree. phase displacement are assigned to the roller drums, and the undercarriage carries the superstructure, via elastic resilient pads. These resilient pads are positioned at least in the vicinity of the minimum vibration of the undercarriage, so that practically total vibrational decoupling between the undercarriage and the superstructure is brought about.

Abstract: A revolving paddle mixer for re-mixing a hot asphalt mix deposited in the hopper of a road paving machine. The mixer takes the form of a plurality of paddles angularly positioned relative to each other and mounted on a revolving shaft adjacent to the conveyor for transporting the asphalt mix material to the rotating auger. The resultant re-mixture is more uniform and dense so that a smooth pavement is laid on the roadway.

Abstract: An adjuster handle construction for a soil compactor such as a percussion rammer. The compactor includes a shoe adapted to engage the surface to be compacted and the shoe is driven in a reciprocating path by a drive cylinder which, in turn, is operated by an engine located at the upper end of the compactor. A tubular guard surrounds the engine and engine components, and a handle is pivotally connected to the guard. The handle can be locked to the guard through an adjustable locking mechanism, so that the handle can be positioned in a plurality of different elevations.

Abstract: An improved moveable road repair and surfacing vehicle of the type having a frame, an aggregate material hopper mounted on a frame, a container on the vehicle for binder material such as asphalt, conveyor means associated with the hopper for carrying aggregate material, a discharge chute associated with the conveyor means for receiving aggregate material carried thereon and directing material downwardly, a discharge outlet on the chute for dispensing the aggregate material therefrom for deposit on a roadway surface, and means for spraying binder material on the dispensed aggregate material.

Abstract: A device for scattering and simultaneously filling sand into turf spaces of an artificial lawn spread on a base comprises a truck caused to run on the artificial lawn by a drive source, a hopper mounted on the truck for storing sand, and a rotary brush for filling the turf spaces with the sand discharged from the hopper and scattered on the artificial lawn. The rotary brush is rotatably driven by the drive source of the truck, and vertically movably mounted onto the truck. The rotary brush is supported by coupling members by which the urging force of the brush against the artificial lawn can be adjusted when the rotary brush is positioned upon the artificial lawn.

Abstract: Apparatus for sealing pavement joints or seams are disclosed. The apparatus includes a wheeled support platform which serves to mount a cylindrical storage container suitable for holding a selected amount of an asphaltic emulsion sealing composition. An applicator is coupled to the bottom of the storage container and controls are provided to selectively vary the volume of the stream of sealing composition and to permit the stream to be completely extinguished. In order to prevent the asphaltic emulsion sealing composition from breaking down or settling out during application an agitator device is provided which propels the sealing composition upward from the bottom of the storage container and mixes the sealing composition. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the agitator device is gear driven in response to movement of the wheeled support platform.

Abstract: An apparatus for uniformly spreading and mixing coating ingredients deposited on a traffic surface, such as a road, includes a maneuverable, wheeled support carriage, a frame and a power driven finishing assembly. The finishing assembly is provided with a plurality of working tools which are rotated about a central axis to bring the tools sequentially into contact with a traffic surface area being treated to efficiently spread and apply a surface treatment composition. Radially extending arms connect with the working tools and with a central support disc. The arms independently urge the tools toward the traffic surface to maintain the tools in contact with the surface despite surface variations. Adjustable couplings connect the tools to the arms to enable the tools to assume a range of operating angles relative to the arms to further enhance the maintenance of good tool-to-surface contact.

Abstract: The invention concerns a consolidating plank for a highway finishing machine the basic plank body of which is lengthenable by a manually attachable plank or by an extendible plank. For creating such a high compacting effect that a subsequent following compaction is saved, a stamp unit having at least two stamps is provided, which stamps have a common eccentric support.

Abstract: A vibratory compactor having forward and reverse movement. The compactor comprises a bottom plate and a pair of standard, single shaft, vibration generating units are mounted in side-by-side relation on the bottom plate and each unit includes an eccentric shaft. The eccentric weight of one of the shafts can be varied in angular position with respect to the weight of the other shaft to provide both forward and reverse movement for the compactor. To adjust the angular position of one of the eccentric shafts, an axially slidable collar is splined to the eccentric shaft and a drive lug on the collar can be selectively engaged with a drive element on a drive gear or with a drive element on a ring which is fixed to the gear and spaced axially therefrom. The drive elements on the gear and the ring are displaced 180.degree.. By moving the collar axially through a manual control, the drive lug will be disengaged with the drive element on the gear and will be engaged with the drive element on the ring.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating traffic surfaces is disclosed in which, in lieu of preparing a batch of coating material, the coating ingredients are independently deposited on the traffic surface and a rotary tool with depending blades is brought into contact with the surface to be coated to effectively mix the ingredients while upon the surface so as to rapidly produce, distribute and apply a uniform composition. The apparatus aspect is represented by a machine in which there are various tanks and hoppers for the individual ingredients, with operator accessible controls for starting, stopping and metering such deposits. In addition the machine carries means for rotatably driving the tool, and for raising and lowering the tool to control the nature of blade contact with the surface being coated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for applying a thin film of a liquid to a vibratory plate arranged on an edge of a vibratory compactor. The apparatus for applying the thin film of liquid includes a container assembly for holding the liquid adjacent the plate. Liquid is preferably supplied to the container assembly under the influence of gravity. An element for maintaining intimate contact between a thin liquid film and a front surface of the plate as the thin film moves downwardly along the plate surface is arranged within a lower portion of the container assembly. The element is arranged adjacent to an outlet from the container provided along substantially the entire width of the front plate. The thin liquid film flows from the container as a low velocity laminar flow along the surface of the plate in the form of a liquid sheet. The liquid remains in contact with the plate surface due primarily to surface tension as the liquid moves downwardly.

Abstract: A material compacting vibration machine provided with an imbalanced system having coaxial first and second independently rotatable shafts carrying first and second drive elements and a pair of unbalanced masses having third and fourth drive elements secured thereto with driving connections between the first and third drive elements and between the second and fourth drive elements, and a drive shaft selectively coupled to the first and second drive elements, wherein the four drive elements all are disposed on one side of the imbalanced system and are shielded by a cover.

Abstract: An oscillator or vibration exciter for soil or road tampers or compacting devices. Unbalanced shafts are journalled parallel to each other in a common housing, and are driven in opposite directions by gears which mesh with each other and are installed on the unbalanced shafts. Each shaft supports a centrifugal weight rigidly coupled therewith. One gear is rigidly connected with its unbalanced shaft, while the other gear is rotatably arranged on its unbalanced shaft and is coupled therewith in such a way that it can be shifted in the direction of rotation by shift pins, which are anchored in a slide piece which can be axially shifted in this unbalanced shaft. The shift pins project outwardly through a longitudinal slot in the unbalanced shaft. This other rotatable gear, on both sides, has stop faces which extend nearly radially as well as axially, and point in the same rotational direction. A shift pin is provided on each side of this gear, one end of each shift pin projecting from the unbalanced shaft.

Abstract: An eccentric-disk tamper, comprising a vibrator frame intended to be raisably and lowerably attached to a vehicle, also comprises at least one vibrator unit connected to the frame by means of parallel guide linkages and bolts disposed at the pivot points. To avoid wear and tear on the joint bolts and to maintain the damping effect of a rubber insert, the bolts are non-rotatably secured to an inner metal sleeve of a coupling link which further includes an outer metal sleeve and, compressed between these two sleeves, a rubber cylinder non-rotatably fixed to both sleeves. Each such coupling link is non-rotatably connected to a respective guide rod of a parallel linkage. A stop disposed between two such guide rods limits their angle of displacement to displacement within the elastic limit of the rubber.

Abstract: A roller attachment for fixed engagement to any of a variety of conventional vibrator compactors to convert same into a vibrator roller device, the roller attachment including a generally rectangular bottom frame portion defining a generally rectangular central opening in which a plurality of spaced apart parallel rollers are rotatably carried; a top frame portion, fixed to the bottom frame portion, is configurated to receive the operating plate portion, of a conventional vibrator compactor, which is aligned with and bolted to the top frame, and removable rubber tubular treads are provided for the rollers.

Abstract: A device for sealing V-belts and pulleys in plate jarring devices, in which a V-belt drive interconnects the drive motor and the unbalance oscillation generator fixedly connected to the bottom plate. The drive motor is in the advancing direction of the device offset relative to the oscillation generator and is arranged on the applied load cushioned relative to the ground plate. The device furthermore includes a protective housing which surrounds the pulleys and the V-belt and is closed on all sides with the exception of the passages for passing the motor shaft and unbalance shaft therethrough. The protective housing is firmly connected to the motor or to the applied load including the motor. The motor shaft passes in a dustproof manner through the passage provided therefor in the protective housing while a seal arranged stationarily is interposed between the motor shaft and the protective housing.

Abstract: The device comprises a motor-rotatable unit which includes a rotary shaft having an eccentric mass and a shaft-enveloping sleeve--which sleeve also has an eccentric mass or eccentric weighted portion. The sleeve, which envelops the shaft, is movable in order to effect juxtaposed, radial alignment of the sleeve mass or weighted portion with the shaft eccentric mass, or a diametrically opposite disposition of the sleeve mass or weighted portion (relative to the shaft eccentric mass), so that the two masses effect an additive unbalance, or, eccentricity, cancel out eccentricity, or produce any in between value of eccentricity. Conduits formed in the shaft admit and discharge pressured fluid to and from the shaft and sleeve interface, to cause selective, rotary movement of the sleeve.

Abstract: A plate vibrator for compacting soil, asphalt and similar materials comprises a bottom plate on which is rigidly mounted a vibrating element driven by a power unit that is mounted resiliently on the bottom plate. The vibrating element comprises at least two counterrotating eccentric weights mounted on a shaft, the phase positions of the eccentrics being capable of adjustment in relation to each other by means of an adjusting mechanism so that the direction of the resultant of the centrifugal forces can be arbitrarily selected in relation to the bottom plate. The location of the element and power unit in relation to each other on the bottom plate and the distribution of the masses oscillating with the bottom plate are chosen to minimize structural height and maximize translational motion both forward and in reverse.

Abstract: A body of lubricant acting also as a coolant is confined by a housing to the base of a vibratory compactor, in direct contact with the planar bottom portion of the base. Upwardly inclined end portions of the base accommodate tilting of the machine in one direction for installation of wheel assemblies or in the other direction to drain all of the lubricant from the housing. A vibration generating, eccentric rotor within the housing mounts flow directing blades to effect misting of the lubricant during vibration and direct it toward critical lubricating points.

Abstract: A vibration tamper device in which a frame having spaced wheels on a horizontal shaft on which a rocker is tiltable in a fore and aft plane and has tamper feet at the opposite ends. An engine supported on the shaft drives a reciprocatory member which is connected to the rocker to oscillate the rocker and cause the tamper feet to engage the ground alternately. A one way clutch is preferably interposed between the rocker and at least one wheel so the device will move as the rocker oscillates.

Abstract: A self-propelled vibratory plate compactor including a rotating eccentric weight and a motor for rotating the weight in a predetermined direction mounted together on a support which is mounted by means of a bearing with a vertical axis on a horizontal work-engaging compacting plate so as to be rotatable on the plate through 180.degree.. The weight provides vibratory compacting and propulsion forces to the plate. The weight causes the plate to move in the direction in which the weight is rotating, and, by rotating the support through 180.degree., the direction in which the plate is propelled is reversed.