Abstract: A combined snow plowing and snow throwing vehicle includes an elongate plow blade at its forward end. The plow blade can be shifted to direct snow to either of the right or the left and includes separate snow throwing fans mounted, respectively, at the right and left ends of the plow blade. A user-actuable control system provides independent actuation of the snow throwing structures so that the snow throwing structure at the downstream end of the plow blade is actuated regardless of whether the plow is directing snow to the right or to the left. This enables the vehicle to plow and throw snow to either the right or to the left and further enables the vehicle to clear snow while traveling both up and down an airport runway.

Abstract: A grader blade unit is provided for ready attachment to small tractors in place of an underslung mower deck. A grader blade is attached to a turntable for pivotable adjustment to selected angular settings. An extensible draw bar affixed to the turntable has a front mounting yoke at its forward end. A rear mounting yoke is affixed to the turntable. The front and rear mounting yokes are adjustable in width and the drawbar is adjustable in length so as to accommodate the mounting links of different tractors. Wing sections hingedly connected to the opposite ends of the central blade are adjustable to selected angular positions relative to the central blade. Foot stirrups are removably affixed to the blade for controlling the slope of the blade in use.

Abstract: The invention is a generally V-shaped, rearwardly slanted plow blade having earwardly tapering raking teeth disposed in a downwardly widening opening at a lower central portion of the blade.

Abstract: A wing assembly is mountable to a plow blade driven in a direction of travel by a vehicle, and preferably left and right wing assemblies are respectively mounted on the left and right side edges of the plow blade. A representative wing assembly provides an auxillary plowing surface and has an inboard edge that is proximate the plow blade when the wing plate is mounted thereon. The wing plate is pivotally mounted on a vertical pivot axis so that it may pivot into an attack position at an obtuse angle .theta. to the plow blade with the inboard wing edge proximate the plow blade and an outboard portion projecting forwardly and outwardly from the front plowing surface of the plow blade. A latching structure retains the wing plate in the attack position. The pivotal mounts may be vertically aligned trunnion pins on the plow blade and matable opening on brackets defined by rear horizontal support and mounting webs on the wing plate. Where the plow blade can be canted at an obtuse angle .phi.

Abstract: A road shoulder grading attachment movably attachable to the bucket of a front-end loader is provided. The attachment includes an upright grading blade attachable to the bucket of the loader in an angled position forward of the bucket. The attachment also includes support structure for rigidly attaching the blade to the bucket and means for raising the blade out of the path of the bucket so that when the attachment is mounted on the bucket of the loader, normal use of the bucket is possible.

Abstract: A mine clearing apparatus for mounting onto a vehicle, the apparatus comprising a support adapted to be rigidly fixed to the vehicle and at least one elongate plough blade extending transversely of the path of forward travel of the vehicle and mounted on the support in such a way that the or each blade is pivotable about a first axis which extends transversely of said path and characterized in that said plough blade is pivotable also about a second axis which extends substantially perpendicular to said first axis and approximately or generally parallel to the path of travel of the vehicle.

Abstract: An automotive earth moving vehicle for civil and military applications. The lade is movable with respect to the body by two independently operable sets of fluid driven actuator sets which are in intersecting spatial relationship. Each actuator set is arranged symmetrically with respect to a vertical median plane of the blade and its actuators are in parallel spatial orientation with respect to each other. One set of actuators is designed for lifting and lowering the blade while the other set is designed to bring about oscillation and tilt. The blade comprises two segments horizontally linked to each other and is thus adapted to alternate between a dozer mode and a plough mode. Wing members may be provided for attachment to the two flanks of the blade in the plough mode.The vehicle also comprises a sensor for use in the plough mode adapted to feed the blade movement control with data on the terrain.

Abstract: An attachment adapted to cooperate with a snow blade or the like of a tractor to provide a dump bucket at the front end thereof is disclosed. The attachment enhances the materials moving capability of the tractor by enabling the tractor to pick up material in a bucket and move it to a desired location. The attachment includes a bucket structure pivotally mounted on the snow blade for movement between a closed or loading position and an open or dumping position.

Abstract: A plow for a motor grader is provided with forwardly pivotable panel members at the two ends of the moldboard so the plow can retain and carry forward removed grade debris without leaving significant windrow residue. The plow also can with suitable forward and backward tilting thereof and panel member extension be used to cut roadways with water run-off inclines or gullies with inclined side walls at the same time.

Abstract: An earth mover vehicle is equipped with a novel blade structure at the mouth end of an earth-containment bowl structure. The blade is adjustably attached to the vehicle so that it can alternately function as a closure for the bowl structure, or as an earth load-unload ramp, or as an earth bulldozer (scraper or plow).

Abstract: Apparatus adaptable on a pusher vehicle for clearing and collecting objects such as refuse lying on the ground for their removal and possibly their loading, characterized in that it includes a fixed rear wall, substantially vertical, on which are articulated side walls, said rear wall being provided at its lower portion with retractable means forming a liftable bottom member for the collection of objects, their transportation and possibly their lifting up.

Abstract: A scraper for use with a two point bucket hitch of a tractor. The scraper provides a resiliently deformable blade depending below a rigid blade so that the deformable blade might be independently used by regulating blade height above a surface. The scraper has a primary medial blade member with pivotally connected lateral wing blade members on each side, which may be independently moved. The lateral wings releasably carry inwardly projecting tines to releasably engage and support coherent masses of material such as baled hay. A releasably attachable bottom pan converts the blade structure to a bucket. The scraper is particularly adapted to move animal excrement over flat surfaces of agricultural structures for accumulation and remove it therefrom for disposition.

Abstract: A device for back scraping snow, earth, or other like substances which generally includes a truck having a concave snowplow blade mounted on its front. The blade has shoes provided on its backside, wedge shaped hinged connections mounted on the shoes, and a flat blade mounted pivotably on said wedge brackets. When the flat blade is brought in contact with snow to be scraped and the snowplow blade is moved in a backwardly direction, the snow to be scraped is moved by the flat blade.

Abstract: A conventional snow plow comprises a scraper blade set at an angle, which then deposits a ridge of snow at the railing edge of the scraper blade. This ridge of snow creates problems at driveways and crosswalks.This present invention discloses a snow plow apparatus to control deposit of ridge of snow and thus prevent said ridge of snow at driveways, crosswalks, etc.

Abstract: A hydraulically controlled bulldozer-blade attachment, particularly for application to an endless track tractor, exhibits, with a view to an improved versatility of use and a better adaptability to the various ground outlines, two half-blades which are linked to a liftable and depressable intermediate frame, the linking axes of the half-blades being at a backward incline relative to the vertical line with reference to the advance direction and each half-blade being controllable by a double-acting jack of its own. At their ends, the half-blades have sloping extensions which can be oriented about horizontal axes arranged in the direction of advance as controlled by double-acting jacks.

Abstract: A farm implement adapted to install plastic lined irrigation gates in rice levees and the like to aid in flood control. The machine comprises an elongated, rigid frame comprised of a trio of rigid struts. The rear of the frame terminates in a rigid scoop of concave cross section having a width somewhat wider than the frame. An elongated dipper blade, also of concave cross section, is pivotally coupled to the frame in spaced-apart, generally parallel relation with respect to the scoop. The dipper blade may be removed by hydraulic means between dirt cupping, dirt releasing and ground engaging positions whereby to dig a suitable contoured trench adjacent the levee after a hole has been cut by the scoop. A plastic sheet is then placed over the hole and trench, and dirt from the dipper blade is deposited upon the plastic sheet to secure same. Prior to cutting another gate, the dipper blade is drawn over the plastic sheet and the dirt deposited thereon to properly contour the gate for subsequent flood control.

Abstract: A foldable snow compactor has a center pan with a pair of operatively positioned wings extending from the ends thereof. The wings are mounted for pivotal movement about axes fixed in relation to the center pan. Single hydraulic piston-cylinder units are employed to pivot the wings through arcs of approximately 180.degree. between their operative extended positions and inoperative positions located rearwardly of the center pan and substantially entirely within the width dimension thereof.

Abstract: A blade device composed of a support frame mounted on the front end of an earth moving machine, a pair of blade members, whose each inside end is pivotably connected to the center of the front portion of said support frame and a pair of cylinder mechanisms interposed between said pair of blade members and said support frame. On the front surface of said support frame, a protecting plate covering the interconnecting portion of each said pair of blade members and said support frame is fixed.

Abstract: An edging apparatus for an ice resurfacing machine includes a guide operatively attaching to one of the side edges of the machine which is capable of being extended from the side of the machine such that it can contact an upright surface as, for example, a rink wall or a dasher board extending around the perimeter of an ice rink. Associated with the guide is an ice shaving blade which is capable of extending in a vertical direction upwards and downwards between a shaving position wherein it can contact the ice surface and shave the surface and a non-shaving position wherein it is lifted upwards from the ice surface. The guide is interposed between the end of the edge of the blade and the dasher board or the rink wall such that it is impossible to catch the end of the blade in the wall or dasher board yet it is possible to correctly position the end of this blade very close to the wall or dasher board allowing shaving of the ice surface to a point almost immediately adjacent to the wall or dasher board.

Abstract: An improved blade assembly is of the type that a blade length is made variable by sliding an auxiliary blade or blades along a main blade. Cutting edge portions of the main blade and the auxiliary blade are disposed in a back-to-back relation and the directions of the tapered surfaces of the respective edge portions are inclined upwardly and outwardly from opposite sides of the complementary sliding surfaces between the main and auxiliary blades so that the knife edges of the respective edge portions may be aligned substantially on the same straight line.

Abstract: A distinguishing feature of the present invention lies in that the element compensating the power loads is installed in the body of the non-angling blade and made in the form of a vertical joint which forms, together with the horizontal joints of the push arms, a three-dimensional system of joints arranged in the mutually perpendicular planes.

Abstract: A variable wing plow blade and mounting structure for attaching the plow blade to a tractor, snow grooming vehicle, and the like feature distribution of the load on the blade over a relatively wide area of the supporting structural members thereby to permit reduction in their size, weight and number and in their manufacturing and assembling costs while maintaining the essential structural strength, and are further characterized in the attainment of improved performance and utility in respect of independence of the plow blade height and pitch or roll, tilt and wing blade adjustments, and greater freedom of movement of the wing blades of the plow blade, both forwardly and rearwardly, from a position of alignment with the center section of the plow blade.