Abstract: Highway and road maintenance costs and time are greatly reduced by an improved method of removing the typical mound of earth that accumulates along the edges of the roadway by providing an earth moving blade defined by a lengthwise bottom edge, a forward side edge, a rearward side edge and a front face, providing at the rearward side edge of the blade a dirt distribution device that includes a motor driven dirt sling unit, positioning the blade diagonally across the mound with its bottom edge penetrating the mound to slightly above the top surface of the road, moving the blade forward to move the portion of mound immediately in front of the blade across its face toward its rearward side edge, and rotating the dirt sling unit while allowing the earth ribbon to contact the sling unit thereby to disintegrate the ribbon into small pieces of earth that are thrown away from the rearward side edge of the blade.

Abstract: A dirt distribution device for attachment to the outboard end of an earth moving blade of a grader machine includes a motor driven rotary dirt slinger carried on a platform that is pivotally carried on a support arm that, in turn, pivots on the clamp unit that mounts the device to the blade. The device serves to sling dirt scraped up by the moving blade over areas inaccessible to the blade, e.g., around the base of trees planted in rows adjacent ditches that require periodic reconditioning by scrapping using grader machines. The device basically includes a turnbuckle or equivalent unit to adjust the radial angle of the support arm relative to the blade and a similar unit to adjust the radial angle of the platform relative to the support arm, but may include further adjustment units to add additional tilt modes to the platform.

Abstract: The cargo area liner of the invention is used in combination with a utility vehicle having a containment portion. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the cargo area liner includes a foldable body. The foldable body has a bottom and sides. The bottom is connected to the sides. The sides are adapted to rotate about 90 degrees from a folded position to an open position. The sides are connected to the botom and are adjacent to the bottom member. The bottom has a first and a second portion, the upper faces of which are in contact when the liner is in fully folded position. In another embodiment of the invention, an inner bottom mmeber and inner side member are slid inwardly and outwardly in an outer bottom member to adjust the length of the liner. In an embodiment of the invention adapted for automobile trunks, the liner includes a base having an upwardly extending flange and sides. Each of the sides has an upper and lower portion extending at an obtuse angle.