Abstract: An asphalt paver having a remixing conveyor system that is adapted to substantially or entirely eliminating segregation in hot mix asphalt material delivered to the asphalt paver. The remixing conveying system includes at least one pair of parallelly spaced, oppositely pitched, counter-rotating hydraulically driven feed augers having remixing blades that intermittently displace portions of the hot mix asphalt material generally transversely to the direction that the feed augers convey the hot mix asphalt material from a hopper of the asphalt paver to spreading augers near the rear of the machine. Elongate members over the feed augers provide protection from impact forces and overloading and enhancing lateral extraction of hot mix asphalt material from the hopper. An optional feed screen provides flow control of the hot mix asphalt material in the hopper. A kit is provided for converting existing asphalt paving machines to have desegregating capability.

Abstract: An improved asphalt paver having a remixing conveyor system that is adapted to substantially or entirely eliminating segregation in hot mix asphalt material delivered to the asphalt paver. The remixing conveying system includes at least one pair of parallelly spaced, oppositely pitched, counter-rotating hydraulically driven feed augers having remixing blades that intermittently displace portions of the hot mix asphalt material generally transversely to the direction that the feed augers convey the hot mix asphalt material from a hopper of the asphalt paver to spreading augers near the rear of the machine. Elongate members over the feed augers provide protection from impact forces and overloading and enhancing lateral extraction of hot mix asphalt material from the hopper. An optional feed screen provides flow control of the hot mix asphalt material in the hopper. A kit is provided for converting existing asphalt paving machines to have desegregating capability.

Abstract: A device for applying a mat of aggregate material having an entrained liquid additive as the device is moved along a path. The device includes a hopper for receiving the aggregate material, a spreader for spreading the aggregate material generally transversely relative to the path, a compacting screed for compacting the aggregate material into the mat, and a mixing conveyor arranged to convey the aggregate material from the hopper to the spreader and to mix the aggregate material along the length of the conveyor. A conduit in flow communication with an additive supply source is mounted within and spans a portion of the hopper. The conduit thus communicates the liquid additive from the additive source to the aggregate material as the aggregate material is being mixed and conveyed.

Abstract: An improved asphalt paver having a remixing conveyor system that is adapted to substantially or entirely eliminating segregation in hot mix asphalt material delivered to the asphalt paver. The remixing conveying system includes at least one pair of parallelly spaced, oppositely pitched, counter-rotating hydraulically driven feed augers having remixing blades that intermittently displace portions of the hot mix asphalt material generally transversely to the direction that the feed augers convey the hot mix asphalt material from a hopper of the asphalt paver to spreading augers near the rear of the machine. Elongate members over the feed augers provide protection from impact forces and overloading and enhancing lateral extraction of hot mix asphalt material from the hopper. An optional feed screen provides flow control of the hot mix asphalt material in the hopper. A kit is provided for converting existing asphalt paving machines to have desegregating capability.

Abstract: A method for compensating differential compaction in an asphalt paving mat wherein an asphalt paver has a compaction compensating system that includes a nominal reference, such as an elongate averaging ski, for determining the general profile of the underlying terrain on which a mat of asphalt material is being placed by the paver and a compensating ski for determining localized irregularities of the subgrade and a control system for responsively altering the thickness of the mat being placed by the paver to compensate for differential compaction of the asphalt material such that a generally planar asphalt paving surface is obtained after compaction thereof. Variations of the method include using a stringline for the reference and/or one or two non-contacting sensors for communicating the general profile and localized irregularity determinations of the subgrade to the control system.

Abstract: An improved asphalt paver with a compaction compensating system includes a nominal reference, such as an elongate averaging ski, for determining the general profile of the underlying terrain on which a mat of asphalt material is being placed by the paver. The improved system also includes a compensating ski for determining localized irregularities of the subgrade and a control system for responsively altering the thickness of the mat being placed by the paver to compensate for differential compaction of the asphalt material such that a generally planar asphalt paving surface is obtained after compaction thereof. Modified embodiments of the improved compaction compensating system include a stringline for the reference and two non-contacting sensors for communicating the general profile and localized irregularity determinations to the control system.

Abstract: An improved screed control device includes two pairs of interacting cylindrical surfaces for controlling the "angle of attack" or elevation of a screed of a paver, a first pair of the two pairs of interacting surfaces having either right-hand or left-hand threads and the other pair of interacting surfaces having threads with handedness opposite from that of the first pair. A reversing pin is adapted to selectively maintain one pair of the two pairs of interacting surfaces stationary relative to each other as a hand-crank arrangement operationally causes the other pair to threadably interact. Handedness of the control device is accomplished by moving the reversing pin to a different set of co-linearly aligned apertures such that the threadably interacting pair of the two pairs of interacting surfaces are caused to become stationary relative to each other and the stationary pair to become threadably interacting relative to each other.

Abstract: An asphalt paver includes a microprocessor controlled integrated control system to control both the operation of a tractor unit of the paver and the positioning of the screed during a paving operation. A paver operator may operate the paver and monitor the screed position with respect to a grade reference. The correction of grade or transverse slope errors is accomplished by monitoring the linear advance of the paver and then measuring a any deviation of the screed with respect to a grade reference. The amount of vertical deviation and the linear advance since a most recent correct reading allows a rate of deviation per unit advance of the paver to be determined. A correction is applied as a change in the angle of attack of the screed, the change being equal and opposite to the determined rate of deviation. A transverse slope change is also measured directly at the screed.

Abstract: An asphalt paver includes a microprocessor controlled integrated control system to control both the operation of a tractor unit of the paver and the positioning of the screed during a paving operation. A paver operator may operate the paver and monitor the screed position with respect to a grade reference. The correction of grade or transverse slope errors is accomplished by monitoring the linear advance of the paver and then measuring a any deviation of the screed with respect to a grade reference. The amount of vertical deviation and the linear advance since a most recent correct reading allows a rate of deviation per unit advance of the paver to be determined. A correction is applied as a change in the angle of attack of the screed, the change being equal and opposite to the determined rate of deviation. A transverse slope change is also measured directly at the screed.