Abstract: Disclosed are improvments to a rapid road repair vehicle comprising an improved cleaning device arrangement, two dispensing arrays for filling defects more rapidly and efficiently, an array of pre-heaters to heat the road way surface in order to help the repair material better bond to the repaired surface, a means for detecting, measuring, and computing the number, location and volume of each of the detected surface imperfection, and a computer means schema for controlling the operation of the plurality of vehicle subsystems. The improved vehicle is, therefore, better able to perform its intended function of filling surface imperfections while moving over those surfaces at near normal traffic speeds.

Abstract: A method of compacting asphalt material having a mix of coarse and fine grains includes providing a paver which has, as compaction assemblies, two strip-shaped tampers which are arranged one directly behind the other in the direction of travel, each tamper being provided with a metering slope and each tamper being provided with a tamping surface thereon, each tamper being vertically reciprocated between an upper and lower terminal position, so as to cause the front tamper lower position to correspond substantially to the rear tamper upper position, whereby coarser grains in the asphalt mix are embedded and undergo minimal longitudinal displacement, as the paver moves.

Abstract: In a slip-form paver for road constructions of concrete, at least one transverse distribution means, at least one stripper device, one slip form and at least one concrete paving screed are arranged on a support frame, said concrete paving screed being a high-compaction paving screed which is floatingly hinged by means of at least two extension bars, which are located approximately in parallel with the base course, to pulling points of the support frame which are positioned in the traveling direction at a distance in front of the high-compaction paving screed.

Abstract: A portable vibratory concrete screed is disclosed. The concrete screed includes a screed blade including a flat bottom wall extending between a front edge of the screed blade and a rear edge of the screed blade. The screed also includes a vibratory assembly, with an eccentric weight, coupled to the screed blade, wherein the eccentric weight rotates in a plane which is oblique to the bottom wall of the screed blade. Finally, the screed includes a handle assembly extending from the vibratory assembly and coupling a motor to the vibratory assembly to drive the eccentric weight and vibrate the screed blade.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rapid road repair vehicle capable of moving over a surface to be repaired at near normal posted traffic speeds to scan for and find an the high rate of speed, imperfections in the pavement surface, prepare the surface imperfection for repair by air pressure and vacuum cleaning, applying a correct amount of the correct patching material to effect the repair, smooth the resulting repaired surface, and catalog the location and quality of the repairs for maintenance records of the road surface. The rapid road repair vehicle can repair surface imperfections at lower cost, improved quality, at a higher rate of speed than was was heretofor possible, with significantly reduced exposure to safety and health hazards associated with this kind of road repair activities in the past.

Abstract: A road finisher, which is used for simultaneously applying at least two surface layers comprises a chassis, a travelling mechanism, at least two premix containers arranged on said chassis, a lateral distributor associated with the respective premix container and adapted to have material supplied thereto via a conveyor path extending in the chassis, and lateral outriggers attached to the chassis as well as a dragged road-surface applying device used for applying a surface layer and arranged on said outriggers, all road-surface applying devices being high-compaction road-surface applying screeds for recompaction-free application of a surface layer, and each high-compaction road-surface applying screed constituting a rear screed, when seen in the direction of movement, which is constructed as a high-compaction road-surface applying screed which is adapted to be used for applying and compacting concrete.

Abstract: A laser controlled automatic grade control system for finishing plastic concrete mounts the finishing tool behind the support towers to resist furrowing. The system functions with a variety of elongated, multi-section concrete finishing tools such as triangular truss screeds or the like, all of which can be quick connected or disconnected from the tower system. Skis that support the device facilitate sliding, winch-driven movement over and through plastic concrete. Spaced apart, vertically upwardly extending towers support the device along the length of the finishing tool. The towers are cylinder-adjustable in length. Cylinder extension and retraction are governed by a sensor-controlled system that is laser operated. The sensors respond to a preestablished laser beacon to control finishing tool elevation as the device traverses the pour in response to its winches.

Abstract: An extremely light-weight, portable floating power vibratory concrete "Wet Screed", which is hand operated by a single finisher in order to strike off, tamp and smooth freshly poured concrete using only perimeter slab forms or curbs. The unique angular design of the enclosed hollow screed blade allows the operator to lower the handle and effectively use the rear 60 degree angled surface of the screed blade to cut down the height of the concrete to the desired grade, or raise the handle to effectively use the front 60 degree angled surface of the screed blade to float and maintain the desired grade. The flat aluminum bottom extending from the front angled surface to the rear angled surface of the screed blade functions to produce a smooth, near final finish while the vibratory action tamps the rock down and works the fat to the concrete surface, thereby substantially increasing the finishing time while making the finisher's job much easier.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vibratory packing plank for a road finisher, having a vibration unit, which comprises a vibration element exhibiting a large-area base plate and coupled to a vibration drive, and a guide plate positioned obliquely towards the base plate, a vibration strip being disposed between the guide plate and the base plate of the vibration unit, which vibration strip is coupled to the vibration drive and provided with a run-in slope.

Abstract: A method for the preparation, placement, and compacting of fibrous concrete material components laid onto an object which consists of forming on a conveyor a sandwich consisting of sequential layers of a mortar component, long fibers, coarse aggregate, directing the sandwich onto the surface of large-diameter rotor (113), converting the components of the sandwich into a controllable flow (F), directing a part of the components onto the object (O) and a part onto a second small-diameter rotor (115) having blades (115a) longer in the radial direction than blades (113a) of the rotor (113), and controlling the direction, speed, density distributions, and distribution of the flow components by adjusting the amount of short fibers added to the flow and by introducing into the flow a third rotor (116). The apparatus for the realization of the method contains a three-rotor-type dispenser with the third rotor (116) pivotal with around the center of rotation of the second rotor (115).

Abstract: Apparatus for spreading a bonding emulsion for road asphalt, a bituminous fluid substance or a similar fluid substance onto the surface of a road, comprising on a moving machine spreading booms associated with ejection nozzles as well as feed circuits for the nozzles, the booms being capable of moving transversely relative to the direction of movement of the moving machine, and being associated with motor mechanisms to drive them during spreading in a to-and-fro movement. The nozzles thereby perform continuous complementary dynamic spreading on the road surface, with the to-and-fro distance of travel of some of the booms being adjustable as a function of the road width over which spreading is required.

Abstract: A self-propelled paver that distributes, consolidates, places and finishes polymer concrete to rapidly resurface roadbeds. A mobile, wheeled chassis mounts an adjustable hopper that receives premixed polymer from a mixer truck that precedes the paver. A finishing assembly secured to the chassis has a distribution assembly for applying concrete transversely across the surface, and a trailing finishing screed that surfaces and densifies the concrete. An active, hydraulic suspension dynamically orients the chassis and the finishing assembly with the roadbed. Individual height adjusting cylinders can be extended or contracted by an automatic grade control that logically senses grade through an external string line. The distribution system comprises an open bottom exposing the surface to be paved, and an open top adapted to receive concrete from a trough extending from the hopper. A bidirectional auger is rotatably disposed within a distribution box for moving concrete upon the surface.

Abstract: An automated pavement repair vehicle includes a vehicle and its various computer-controlled subsystems. The various subsystems, including a vacuum system, heating system and spray patch system, for completing pavement repair, are located on the frame and rear of the truck. A robotic cell at the rear of the truck includes an assembly of retractable doors. The doors are lowered around the pothole to allow control of ambient conditions during the pavement repair procedure.

Abstract: A method of lubricating the roller bearings journaling the rotatable, vibration imparting, eccentric mass in the closed cavity of a vibratory compactor housing comprising the step of providing a layer of lubricating oil at the bottom of the housing cavity having its upper surface spaced below but relatively close to the nadir point of the circular path of travel of the maximum radially extending node portion of the eccentric mass about its eccentric axis of rotation whereby to prevent penetration of the node portion directly into the oil layer itself and instead permitting the impacting of the node portion only with the upstanding thin columns of oil which are continuously formed at the upper surface of the oil layer, during the vibration of the housing and oil layer, to thereby splatter the oil from the impacted oil columns upwardly within the housing and into the roller bearings.

Abstract: A vehicle mounted vibrating tamping device for attachment to a support vehicle having an attenuated extensible boom to pre-position a vibrating multiple fixture head against a work surface. The tamping device is self-contained independently controlled for selective loading force on the work surface and interconnects with the hydraulic system of the vehicle.

Abstract: Obtainment of specific asphalt paving densities during roadbed repair by preshaping hot mat top surfaces concurrent with or/and prior to compaction. Like a shaped munition, a preshaped top surface on recently laid hot asphalt mat transmits surface compacting forces in precalculated directions and carries therewith asphaltic materials so as to obtain desired finished paving densities. A conventional strike off bar is modified with base indentations which partially and wholly, according to desired specifications, grade or top dress hot asphaltic mat with desired, force-transmitting shaped planes. Adjunct apparatus is employed by way of translating and rotating plates to partially or wholly cover the indentations so as to effect various, but differing, desired shapes; such adjunct apparatus includes a unique, edge and rut compaction shoe.

Abstract: Vehicle including, mounted on a chassis, a device for receiving material to be spread, a device for transferring the material towards a spreading component, a tank for binding product, a distribution bar, and a motorization assembly. The chassis includes at a rear portion, after the component for spreading the material, and mounted on rollers or balls that are rotatable independent of rolling elements mounted on a front portion, at least one of the motorization assembly, the tank and a control and transmission mechanism providing weight to the rear portion to permit the rear portion to act as a compactor.

Abstract: Compaction plank for a road-finishing machine for incorporating and compacting freshly laid roadmaking material (3), preferably having a variable effective width. To this end, the compaction plank preferably comprises a main plank and laterally extendable adjusting planks. It also has a base plate (2, 18) for flattening the roadmaking material (3) associated with one or more bar-shaped, driven stampers (5, 6). Two stampers (5, 6) are provided, namely a front stamper (5) arranged in front of the base plate (2, 18) in the direction of travel (4) of the road-finishing machine and a rear stamper (6) arranged between the elements of the base plate (2, 18). The stampers (5, 6) are preferably interconnected by a two-armed lever (7), each stamper (5, 6) being connected with one of the two lever arms (7a, 7b), and the lever (7) can be driven so as to oscillate about its bearing point (8).

Abstract: An elongated landscape edging strip formed of flexible material comprises an upstanding retainer portion intermediate and integral with a thin gauge, readily deformable mowing strip and a thin gauge, readily deformable anchoring strip. The mowing strip and anchoring strip are both secured in conformity to the ground contour along the edge of a mowed area to separate the mowed area from an unmowed area. In a preferred embodiment, the retainer portion has a channel-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A concrete leveling machine is provided which propels itself over the surface of laid concrete and by use of rotating augers or oscillating stabilizers and a temper, levels and finishes the surface to a prescribed level and condition. A laser reference beam transmitted over the surface is detected by detectors attached to the leveling section of the machine and deviation of the level of the detectors from a reference level is adjusted so that the leveling section is also brought to a level required to produce the desired surface level. The machine is turned by a turntable integral with the main body which lifts the machine allowing it to turn by differential drive to its drive wheels.

Abstract: A vibratory roller is disclosed having a frame comprised of pivotally interconnected front and rear subframes. A motor is mounted on the frame and a steering mechanism is provided to articulate the subframe relative to each other. A roller drum carrier is mounted by a longitudinal centerline suspension system to support each of the subframes. Ground engaging roller drums are rotatably mounted on the roller drum carrier for rotation about an axle axis. An exciter mechanism for generating a vibratory compacting force is mounted in the roller drum carrier below the axis. Hydraulic drive units for rotating the roller drums are mounted in the roller drive carrier above the axis.

Abstract: This invention is a paving or resurfacing machine and method that places and trowels a layer of a trowelable coating material or overlay, such as a filled resinous material, on a surface to be coated, such as a concrete floor. The machine meters, distributes, strikes off and compacts a resurfacer material on a prepared surface resulting in a closed, smooth, dense, flat surface.

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: A slip form paving machine including a main frame supported by a front driven steering wheel and a pair of rear wheels that straddle the fore-and-aft center line of the main frame. An open top hopper is mounted on the frame and the lower end of the hopper communicates with an open bottom slip form, so that paving material, such as concrete fed into the hopper, will flow downwardly and be discharged from the slip form as the machine moves over the terrain. An outrigger frame is pivoted to the main frame about a horizontal axis and is located laterally of the rear wheels. The outrigger frame carries an outrigger wheel which is located laterally outwardly of the slip form and an inclined scraper blade is mounted forwardly of the outrigger wheel. When using a relatively wide slip form, the outrigger wheel is engaged with the terrain, and the rear wheel closest to the outrigger wheel is raised above the terrain so that the machine is supported on the outrigger wheel and the other of the rear wheels.

Abstract: An elongated landscape edging strip formed of flexible material comprises an upstanding retainer portion intermediate and integral with a thin gauge, readily deformable mowing strip and a thin gauge, readily deformable anchoring strip. The mowing strip and anchoring strip are both secured in conformity to the ground contour along the edge of a mowed area to separate the mowed area from an unmowed area. In a preferred embodiment, the retainer portion has a channel-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A double tamping bar vibratory screed is disclosed for use with a lay-down machine for laying a roadway. The screed consists of a main body portion having a strike-off plate on its leading edge which is followed by two tamping bars having independent eccentric shafts. These tamping bars are in turn followed by a vibrating plate which together perform the necessary compaction and provide a smooth, even surface with a variety of materials.The tamping bars are resiliently designed with a slightly rearward angle of attack and have horizontal material engagement faces which contact the material to be compacted and provide the desired result.

Abstract: The invention here disclosed comprises a method and apparatus for rejuvenating an asphalt roadway surface resulting in up to approximately three inches of new repaved roadway surface produced at speeds of up to approximately twenty-two feet per minute. The method includes the steps of heating a top layer of roadway, scarifying that heated layer, adding a recycling agent and thoroughly mixing and screeding the road surface to form a recycled material, adding new asphalt mix to the recycled material and milling the combination to form a mixed material and leaving a sub-layer plane in the roadbed. The mixed material is next conveyed away to a paving station located at the end of the process. During this conveying, the sub-layer left by the milling cut is heated, scarified, treated and worked in a manner similar to the treatment performed on the top layer of road surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for filling voids in recycled asphalt. When asphalt has been recycled through the use of a heater-scarifier-screed apparatus, inherently, the pavement surface has voids therein which render the surface porous. The apparatus disclosed herein spreads a thin layer of asphalt over the recycled asphalt in such a manner that substantially all of the voids in the surface thereof are filled. When the method disclosed herein has been completed, the result is a substantially smooth, recycled, repaved trafficable asphalt surface.

Abstract: When compacting soil a vibration mass bearing on the ground is caused to vibrate, wherein the vibration process is controlled in dependence on the behaviour of the mass spring system, part of which being constituted by the soil. Tests have shown that in comparison with fall weights soil can be compacted up to the same extent in a shorter period of time or can be compacted to a greater extent in a same period of time.

Abstract: A roadway surface patching vehicle is described wherein virtually all roadway patching procedures may be performed by a single operator within a control station of the vehicle unit. The vehicle includes a number roadway repair tools mounted to a moveable carriage on the vehicle frame. This carriage is situated intermediate the control station and the front vehicle wheels. Among the operative tools are a cutter head and a vacuum head adjacent to the cutter head for receiving and directing loose particulate roadway surface material to a storage hopper for subsequent reblending and reuse. The vacuum head may also be used to clean the area adjacent the repair following placement and finished tamping and rolling of the new repair materials. A tamping head is also mounted to the carriage for movement therewith and a roller is mounted to the frame for finishing the repair to grade.

Abstract: A method for laying a snow road or an airplane runway on a snow or ice covered surface includes the removal of a predetermined and relatively small portion of the snow or ice surface, which is melted to water and mixed with the snow or ice remaining on the snow surface. The mixture of water and snow or ice is leveled so as to form a road surface when the mixture freezes. Preferably, the snow remaining on the surface is mechanically worked with a rototiller, while the melted snow is injected into the snow being worked. The method is particularly advantageous in that it can be carried out without requiring melting of all the snow necessary to form the snow road, or requiring the addition of any water from an external source, other than the portion of snow removed from the snow surface. An apparatus for performing the method is also described.

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: The asphalt laying machine comprises a rear body divided into sections with smoothing and compacting units suspended through vibration dampers in the frame. Each unit comprises an intermediate part and a smoothing part interconnected by means of a rear shaft bearing and a front connecting rod connected to an eccentric. By virtue of this interconnection an elliptical movement is transferred to the smoothing part during operation of the machine, and this movement produces a heavy tamping at the front edge, a smoothing and vibrating effect at the intermediate area of the ironing plate, and a succeeding tamping and polishing effect at the rear edge area. The tamping foot of a scraper plate suspended on the intermediate part tamps laid asphalt synchronously in opposition to the tamping plate of the ironing plate by virtue of reaction forces transferred through the intermediate part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a travelling finisher apparatus for laying down a road surfacing layer of a bituminous compound material, comprising a first precompacting and levelling screed carried by a frame, and optionally a second levelling screed connected to a vibratory drive arrangement, whereby a particularly high degree of compaction is achieved so that subsequent roller compaction is not required. This is accomplished by providing a vertically guided compactor bar extending transversely of the direction of travel at the rear of the first screed and being of substantially narrower width than said first levelling plank, said compactor bar being continually in contact with the surface of the precompacted surfacing layer and adapted to be acted on by linear pulsating forces acting between the frame and the compactor bar, and generated by a drive source the reaction forces of which are absorbed by the frame.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming, compacting and finishing the top surface of concrete poured between a pair of removable longitudinally extending parallel opposed forms. The apparatus, which is self-propelled, travels along the tops of the forms. A heavy wooden vibrator member disposed at the forward end of the apparatus may be shaped so that concrete beneath the vibrator is formed and compacted to a depth which varies along transverse axes of the forms. The structural members of the apparatus may be interchanged or adjusted to adapt the apparatus for use with forms of arbitrary spacing. Simple adjustments may also be made to permit the apparatus to traverse forms of unequal height. Removable "skirts" enable use of the apparatus with relatively narrow forms supported above the grade on which the concrete segment is formed--the skirts serve as a "travelling form" to prevent poured concrete formed and compacted by the vibrator spilling beneath the forms.

Abstract: A machine for compacting and moulding concrete mix or other plastic materials comprises, in combination:(a) a body structure;(b) a tunnel shaped moulding member having a top and two sides and open at its bottom, the moulding member being attached to the body section;(c) an opening in the top of the moulding member adjacent to the body section;(d) a hopper adapted to carry concrete mix or other plastic materials, and feed the mix or materials to the opening, the hopper being attached to the body structure;(e) a substantially vertical ram plate having a shape which corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the moulding member, the ram plate being located within the moulding member and being adapted to move reciprocally from a first position adjacent to the body structure to a second position wholly within the moulding member, without oscillation of the ram plate;(f) means to cause the reciprocal movement of the ram plate, the means being carried by the body structure, and(g) means supporting the body structur

Abstract: An apparatus capable of self power or being towed and specifically designed to distribute and/or apply cementitious material, and in particular, pervious concrete, over a given surface area such as a roadway or the like. A support frame has mounted thereon a distributor casing specifically configured to direct cementitious material in layer form along a transverse length relative to the direction of travel of the support frame. A delivery hopper moves transversely on the frame and along the length of the casing and serves to continuously feed cementitious material to the casing. Material such as pervious concrete is continuously discharged from the distributor casing by a percussive action imparted to it by forward motion of the frame. A blade element and compacting edge is adjustably positioned above the surface being treated and is attached to the casing to mechanically move therewith so as to compact the cementitious material as it is extruded from the casing upon mechanical actuation thereof.

Abstract: An improved reciprocatory self-loading dual-ended earth excavation vehicle pivotally connected to two or more unmanned self-leveling and self-maneuvering telescopic conveyor vehicles, the latter in turn are pivotally connected to a multi-function dual-ended distribution vehicle capable of conveying, spreading, wetting, impacting and grading the earth fill. The above-mentioned articulated vehicles provide the means to excavate, convey and discharge a virtually continuous flow of earth while traveling in a forward or rearward direction. The excavation and telescopic conveyor vehicles are readily adaptable to surface mining of various minerals including coal and oil shale by simply exchanging the above-mentioned distribution vehicle for a pivotally connected boom conveyer vehicle which provides the means for discharging the ore at a mill site or for the loading of long haul ore carriers.