Abstract: An asphalt road resurfacing machine includes a heater to soften asphalt pavement by heat, a plurality of scraper assemblies to excavate asphalt pavement, knock excavated asphalt pavement to pieces and mix the pieces evenly, a shaving device to shave the mixed pieces on the road, and a roller to crush and smooth the excavated asphalt pavement to a renovated condition.

Abstract: A cutter drum of the type adapted for use in milling a roadway surface is disclosed, and which comprises a plurality of flighting assemblies fixed to the surface of the drum in a helical configuration. Each flighting assembly comprises a base plate which is aligned with a plane which perpendicularly intersects the central axis of the drum, and rear and forward support blocks fixed to one side of the base plate to define a channel therebetween. A tooth holder is mounted in the channel, and the holder has an outer portion which extends radially above the outer edge of the base plate, and the tooth holder is releasably mounted in the channel by means of a bolt. The portion of the tooth holder in the channel is protectively covered by the side surface of the base plate of an adjacent assembly.

Abstract: A road surface conditioning machine having an adjustable height shearing blade, side delivery blades, and an adjustable height striker blade to spread the material cut by the shearing blade and side delivery blades, the leading end of the shearing blade being adjustable in height with respect to the trailing end.

Abstract: A road surface treating apparatus including a wheel-supported framework having forwardly extending arms pivotally carried thereon. The arms have a transversely extending tool bar mounted to their forward ends. A tool-supporting frame is detachably and adjustably mounted on the tool bar. A cutter drum housing is pivotally mounted on the tool-supporting frame for floating pivotation about a horizontally extending, fore-and-aft axis to facilitate side-to-side rocking movement of the drum housing. A cutter drum is rotatably mounted in the housing and carries circumferentially spaced rows of cutter blades each mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis. A pair of horizontally spaced, shock absorber units is connected between the housing and tool-supporting frame to damp and smooth the side-to-side rocking movement of the housing and the cutter drum mounted therein.

Abstract: A pad (22) for isolating a weight (4) from vibration of a resonant beam (8) in a resonant beam support system (6) for dissipating heat. The pad is constructed of a rubberlike material having ridges (58) and grooves (60). The ridges and grooves include a trapezoidal configuration which yields an increasing resistance to compression, i.e., spring rate, with increasing deflection. Altering the configuration of the ridges and grooves permits variation in spring rate. The pads may be constructed of standard truck tire recap tread and arranged in a square configuration. Water is injected between the pads and grooves through inlets (50, 52) to cool the pads. An aluminum plate (48) is mounted between first and second layers (40, 41) of tire recap tread to increase heat dissipation.

Abstract: A system is provided for forcibly drawing a flexibly-supported, acute angled, wedge under an existing stretch of a predetermined width of reinforced pavement to initiate removal thereof from the ground below. Gravity-assisted impact hammers apply downward blows of a controlled magnitude and at a predetermined rate onto an upper surface of the reinforced pavement, to crack the same across the entire width thereof over the wedge being driven therebelow. The wedge is flexibly supported, with a predetermined amount of elasticity in the up-and-down direction, so that it essentially "floats" and facilitates absorption of the impact forces by the reinforced pavement to be cracked thereby. Cracked reinforced pavement is subjected to further blows by a hammer coacting with a set of bars transverse thereto, to forcibly render a bulk component of the reinforced pavement into small pieces separated from reinforcement material contained therein.

Abstract: A system for removing and relaying asphaltic concrete pavement using a planer pulling a laydown machine and pushing equipment for (a) screening the cuttings produced by the planer, and (b) mixing the screened cutting, with a suitable binder, wherein the mix is conveyed back to the laydown machine.

Abstract: A machine for cutting transverse grooves in a concrete road surface includes a rotary cutter head supported on a carriage that can be shifted longitudinally along the machine frame structure. By using a combination of motions of the frame structure and cutter head carriage it is possible to form grooves spanning substantially the entire distance from one curb to the other curb during a single pass of the machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for pulverizing and spreading the gravel ridge formed by plowing the shoulder portion of a gravel road onto the travelled portion thereof includes a frame for towing behind a vehicle, vertically adjustable rear wheels on the frame, and a pair of hydraulically driven, transversely extending, blade carrying drums. By towing the frame along a gravel road while rotating the drums, the paddle-like blades pulverize and spread the gravel ridge.

Abstract: A land grader for grading an unprepared or partially prepared soil surface, as a step in the preparation of a roadbed. The land grader has a frame fixed at a forward end to the tractor and is supported at a rearward end to a plurality of tamping wheels. On the frame are mounted a plurality of rotary cutters which are offset laterally and axially from one another along an angle to the direction of travel. The rotary cutters have scraper blades mounted between them.

Abstract: A device for cutting and excavating soils, concrete, asphalt and road surfaces and subsurfaces. The Vertical Asphalt & Concrete Miller is mounted on various types of construction equipment such as a back hoe. The construction equipment normally provides hydraulic fluid to drive the rotary cutting head. Several configurations of replaceable cutting bits are used depending upon the material to be cut. One specific cutting head is a coring bit used to cut the concrete or asphalt around manhole castings, water valves and monument boxes.

Abstract: This invention relates to a front-loading cutting device for cutting up damaged road surfaces, having a self-driving chassis, a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, a cutting cylinder which is height-adjustable in relation to the chassis and a loading belt arranged at the front end, in which the cutting cylinder is arranged at the rear of the chassis and a transport belt is provided for the cut-up material below the chassis between the cutting cylinder and the loading belt.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the cold, in-place recycling of asphalt paving of an asphalt roadway. The apparatus is self-propelled, and it includes a cylindrical milling drum mounted at a medial location along its longitudinal length and which serves to remove a thickness of the asphalt paving and break the same into particles as the apparatus moves forwardly along the roadway. The particles are lifted to a separating screen which is positioned forwardly of the drum, and the particles are thereby separated into a first portion of relatively small particles suitable for recycling and a second portion of oversized particles. The first portion is delivered to the rear end of the apparatus where it is mixed with a suitable liquid additive, and then discharged onto the roadway. A following paver then forms the discharged material into new paving. The second portion of oversized particles is discharged onto the roadway at a location in front of the milling drum.

Abstract: A height control device for a fixture which comprises at least a pair of gauging devices each having an ultrasonic transceiver for gauging a certain distance. A signal generator is connected to both gauging devices for generating a signal representative of the change in the level height due to machining. A control device is also provided for elevating or lowering the machining fixture.

Abstract: An end closure for the cutter housing of a road planer in which a pair of self-opening and self-closing cover plates provide a protective cover over a shaft clearance opening in the end wall of the housing. The cover plates, pivotally mounted on an external wall surface of the housing, move between a closed position at which the cover plates cooperatively overlay the shaft clearance opening, and an open position at which clearance is provided for a rotatable shaft extending through the housing end wall, in response to moving the end wall vertically with respect to the frame on which the cutter is rotatably mounted.

Abstract: A control system for a road planer in which the mechanical drive components are selectively and sequentially controlled in response to operator inputs and to sensed operating conditions. The control also responds to the occurrence of predefined fault events and internal system failures by controlling the operation of one or more of the mechanical drive line components in a preselected order. Suitable time delays are provided between the execution of selected commands to prevent undesirable wear or loads on components of the drive train.

Abstract: The invention comprises a road cutting equipment for cutting grooves, or slots in road surfaces and comprises an apparatus attached to an end of a vehicle. When the apparatus is not in use it is rasied clear of the road surface so that the vehicle can travel over the road surface in normal fashion. When the equipment is to be used it is lowered relative to the vehicle and the vehicle is supported by the equipment on legs of which the lower ends have rollers. At the same time a cutter disc or drum is driven and penetrates the road surface. The equipment in this condition is driven forward, by a drive means which directly drives one or more of said rollers.

Abstract: A grinding assembly for grinding asphaltic pavement which attaches to a vehicle frame and includes a grinder and a grinder blade attached to the rear of the grinder. The lower edge of the blade extends down to a bottom of the grinder so as to contact unground pavement during operation. A brace assembly is affixed to the grinder and an adjustment brace coupling is affixed to the vehicle frame and is connectable to the brace assembly. The brace coupling is adjustable to pivot the grinder to change the elevation of the grinding surface relative to the lower edge of the blade.

Abstract: A heavy vehicle has fixed cross braces mounted on its frame perpendicular to the direction of the vehicle, and close to the surface of a road. Movable cross braces fit within these fixed cross braces, and support a circular cutting tool that can be extended, laterally, to line up with a guide line on the surface of the road, and that pivots up and down to cut into the surface of the road. An additional pivot permits the circular cutting tool to be set level with the surface of the road before a cut is made. A water supply, with suitable nozzles directed at the cutting blades of the circular cutting tool, cools and lubricates the blades while they are cutting into the surface of the road. A source of compressed air with suitable nozzles, that can be directed at the newly cut holes in the surface of the road, cleans out the holes for the installation of safety reflectors.

Abstract: A grinding apparatus for application upon pavement surfaces or the like includes a self-powered, riding machine having one or more grinding heads. The operator is situated immediately above the grinding heads and manipulates the operation of the heads as well as the advancement of the machine, through appropriate controls. The machine includes a bottom frame assembly upon which the majority of the apparatus is mounted. The grinding heads are normally stationary with respect to the bottom frame assembly and are raised and lowered relative the pavement, upon the pivotal displacement of an upper frame assembly which is provided with a forwardmost control arm. This displacement translates as a vertical adjustment of the grinding heads as the bottom frame assembly is raised or lowered. The forward distal portion of the control arm joins with a steerable wheel assembly. Preferably, independent control of the wheel assembly is accomplished by a second, mobile operator.

Abstract: The pavement planer of this invention is carried on the front ends of the twin lift arms of a skid-steer front end loader. It has a drum with radially projecting picks, confined to rotation in a box-like housing that is open at its bottom and is supported at its front center on a heightwise adjustable roller. Secured to the lift arms, spanning the distance between them, is an upright plate-like frame member that rides on a roller on each of its ends. The housing is so connected to the frame member as to be laterally adjustable relative to it and also tiltingly adjustable about a fore-and-aft extending axis. Both of those adjustments are effected by a single hydraulic cylinder jack connected between the housing and the upright frame member. In use, a down load on the lift arms imposes part of the weight of the carrying vehicle onto the pavement planer, to be supported by the three mentioned rollers.

Abstract: Material, such as old unsound concrete material, is removed from a work surface by discharging water against such work surface at a pressure of from about 10,000 to about 25,000 psi from a rotating nozzle. During operation, the nozzle traverses the work surface along a series of linear paths and is incrementally moved in a longitudinal direction so as to pass over the work surface in a sequence of preferably overlapping transverse bands. An apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention comprises a support structure usefully in the form of a vehicle having an extendible arm driven by an extension means for incremental movement of that arm in a longitudinal direction. A rotatable nozzle is mounted on a nozzle support in turn secured to the extendible arm for bidirectional movement of the nozzle along a transverse linear path. Casters are also provided for maintaining the nozzle at a predetermined spacing from the work surface during operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: An accessory for the boom of road working equipment has a frame arranged for attachment to the boom. The accessory also has a shaft rotatably mounted in the frame. Also included is a motor mounted on the frame for rotating the shaft. The accessory employs a rotary tool mounted on the shaft.

Abstract: An asphaltic pavement preconditioning machine to remove and grind up old asphalt so that it can be rejuvenated. The method and apparatus heats a strip of asphalt, grinds a first strip portion and moves the ground asphalt to a second strip portion leaving behind an exposed unsoftened layer. Both the ground material and the previously heated unground asphalt in the second strip are then ground. The exposed hard asphalt in the first strip is heated, softened and then ground and moved onto the first strip portion. The heat from the ground asphalt lying over the center strip portion softens the unground asphalt there which is subsequently ground together with the ground material and left for further processing.

Abstract: A two-way spreader that is equipped to grade and scarify the surface of a road bed having a dump body that is tiltably mounted up the chassis of a motor vehicle so that the back of the dump body can be raised and lowered between a rest position against the chassis and an elevated position above the chassis. A frame is secured to the bottom of the dump body which is suspended behind the chassis. An elongated scraper blade is secured in the lower part of the frame and extends transversely to either side of the chassis. During grading operations, the weight of the dump body rests upon the blade as it is moved over the road bed.

Abstract: An apparatus to stabilize a surface. The apparatus includes a carrier arranged for movement over the surface to be stabilized. A reel is mounted on the carrier for rotation about an axis of rotation transverse to the direction of movement of the carrier. The reel has a plurality of circumferentially spaced cutter bars that extend the length of the reel parallel to the axis of rotation. The reel can be lifted and lowered relative to the surface. The trailing face of each cutter bar has an area formed to reduce pressure at the trailing face as the cutter bar rotates.

Abstract: The planer has a planer drum drivenly supported in a chassis, and a drum-access bulkhead, mounted for pivotable movement about a vertical axis, in confronting adjacency to the drum. An extended conveyor, for carrying off planed-off pavement material, is mounted, at one end thereof, to the bulkhead. Accordingly, the conveyor can be slued fully aside, upon the bulkhead being pivoted about the axis, to provide clear, open access to the drum for servicing thereof.

Abstract: A one-piece blade shroud and vacuum duct system for removing a water and swarf slurry from a pavement grooving site includes an adjustable intake nozzle for directly receiving the slurry hurled by the rotating blades of a pavement grooving machine. Only two nozzles are used in order to simplify the vacuum ducting and to improve the efficiency of the system. By disposing a water jet assembly within the blade shroud, efficiency is further increased.

Abstract: In a machine for cutting off or planing off road surfaces, having a steerable chassis with an independent drive motor, and a planing or cutting tool which is located within the contour base line of the chassis and is fixed in vertically adjustable manner on the chassis, a further planing or cutting tool of smaller dimensions is provided which is located outside the contour lines of the chassis. The further planing or cutting tool sits on a bracket which is arranged laterally in translatory moveable manner on the chassis so that the further planing or cutting tool on the bracket can be positioned in a dead space in front of, behind or above the chassis, which dead space is located within the contour lines of the chassis. The further planing or cutting tool permits the cutting of special profiles at the edge of the roadway but, on account of its capacity to be moved, does not restrict the useability of the cutting machine in traffic.

Abstract: A construction apparatus with a trimmer connected by a three-point suspension wherein each of the three points is independently adjustable for adjusting the angle of the trimmer relative to the main frame in accordance with the desired slope or grade of the ground surface and to raise and lower the trimmer. The trimmer is also provided with an improved carriage for permitting the trimmer to be moved laterally outwardly of the construction apparatus to grade the ground surface alongside the construction apparatus. The construction apparatus preferably molds a paving material onto the ground immediately behind the trimmer so that concurrent grading and molding is accomplished in one pass of the construction apparatus.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a pavement breaker which includes a carriage, a lifting means for raising and lowering an impact arm which impact arm includes a tool for impacting a surface, mounted on one end and an oscillating member mounted on the other end. The control apparatus basically includes electrical apparatus for measuring the total weight being applied through the lifting means to the tool when it is in contact with the surface to be impacted and apparatus for limiting the amount of horizontal force that can be applied to the impact arm during the process of impacting the surface of the earth. A processor receives an electrical signal from the electrical apparatus which is applied to the lift control apparatus in a manner to stabilize the lifting force. A signal output is generated by the horizontal force limiting apparatus when a predetermined amount of horizontal force is received by the electrical device.

Abstract: A device for cutting slots of varying lengths and shapes in pavement to receive a reflector, the cutting blades for cutting the slot always being at right angles to the tangent to that portion of the surface of the pavement where the slot is being cut and means permitting the cutting blades to be maintained at an optimal rotational speed regardless of the density of the type of pavement encountered.

Abstract: A scarifier suspended beneath the body of an automotive vehicle such that it is vertically movable by means of cylinders. It comprises a suspending frame provided on a main frame vertically movable by means of the cylinders so that it may be freely slidable in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body, a plurality of supporting bars horizontally disposed within the suspending frame so that they may extend in the longitudinal direction of the suspending frame and so that any two adjacent bars may be connected in series to each other by means of a pin, said supporting bars being each connected to a cylinder vertically provided on the suspending frame so that each bar may be inclined in the longitudinal direction, and a multiplicity of claws provided, at prescribed intervals, on the supporting bars by way of pins in such a manner that they extend downwards from the pins and that they are swingable about the pins.

Abstract: A pavement slot cutter has a mobile support adapted to advance on the pavement in a predetermined direction. A drum is mounted on the support to rotate about a horizontal, transverse axis. A motor within a hub fast on the support rotates the drums. A transversely extending casing on the drum holds a transversely extending tooth structure for reciprocation therein toward and away from the support. An undulatory cam track is formed in the hub and is engaged by a cam follower on the tooth.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing structural concrete comprises an elongated hood having an inner generally non-accessible zone, an outer zone accessible for performing maintenance functions and an elongated slot between the zones. A reciprocal feed carriage is guidably mounted within the hood in the inner zone and mounts a seal support housing within the outer zone. Portions of the housing extend through the slot into the inner zone and are pivotally mounted upon the carriage. A rotating shaft and seal assembly is mounted upon the seal support housing in the outer zone, including a body having a water inlet adapted for connection to a source of water under pressure. An elongated tubular shaft and nozzle assembly is axially connected to the rotatable seal and shaft assembly and extends from the seal support housing through the slot into the inner zone of the hood, through the carriage and into the bottom of the hood for directing water under pressure against the structural concrete.

Abstract: There is disclosed a machine including a powered truck-like vehicle having a support base and an apparatus mounted on the base for cutting a drive-in passage across a curbstone, a sidewalk or the like. The apparatus comprises two spaced parallel booms mounted at one end on the base and rail-structure-holding heads connected to the booms and displaceable along them. A rail structure including an elongated upper suspension member, having a non-circular cross section, is mounted on the heads by extension of the suspension member through rotary pillow blocks of the heads of which the cylinders have like non-circular bores. A linkage powered mechanism, interconnecting the heads and the suspension member, allows oscillation of the latter about its longitudinal axis and consequently oscillation of the rail structure of which it is a part. A power jack allows shifting of the rail structure laterally with respect to the booms.

Abstract: A roadway milling machine includes a hollow, cylindrically walled, shaft mounted, imperforate drum having tungsten carbide tipped steel cutting tools supported in tool holders extending generally radially outwardly from the cylindrical surface of the drum. The drum is moved over a roadway to be milled, and is rotated on its shaft to bring the cutting tools into operative contact with the roadway. Water is fed into the drum along a water access opening provided along the axis of the drum shaft; and this coolant leaves the drum through openings provided in the cylindrical drum wall, one adjacent to each cutting tool, in position where the coolant leaving the drum will impinge upon and cool its adjacent cutting tool. In order to limit the flow of water from the drum to the cutting tools and, at the same time, to prevent the necessarily small openings from clogging up, large openings can be provided through the cylindrical drum wall and well into the tool holders which extend integrally outwardly from that wall.

Abstract: A cutter (10) intended for use on a planing blade on a road planing machine is provided with a plurality of tools (14) rotatably mounted in the cutter. The tools (14) are mounted side by side and are adapted to carry out the working of the road surface (17).

Abstract: Disclosed is a road surface layer reproducing apparatus which comprises a mixture hopper, a scarifier, and a mixer means including a first mixer of single-shaft rotor system and a second mixer of twin-shaft rotor system.This apparatus is characteristic of a mixture hopper swingable laterally around its hopper supporting shaft, a sacrifier whose claws are so loosely fitted that the tip ends of the claws can follow up the contour of a road being remedied, a first mixer provided with a single-shaft rotor with a depth-measuring device for controlling the depth of penetration of the rotor into the asphalt of the road and mounted with screws for forming a windrow of an asphalt mixture to the center of the main body of the apparatus and a second mixer provided with parallel mounted twin-rotors which is vertically movable by a three-point supporting mechanism.

Abstract: Apparatus for reworking pavement expansion joints by resizing the joint includes a frame having front and rear portions hinged to one another at a transverse pivot axis. The frame pushed along the pavement by a vehicle. The rear frame portion is supported by laterally positioned wheels and by a rear guide disk. The front frame portion is supported by a front guide disk. The guide disks lie along the frame axis and engage the expansion joint to guide the frame along the joint. A concrete cutting saw is mounted to the rear frame portion directly above the axis of the support wheels with its saw blade lying in the same vertical plane as the guide disks. The saw is preferably remotely raised and lowerd through actuation of a hydraulic cylinder mounted to the frame to adjust the depth of cut. The frame is pushed through a link drive having dual axis joints for attachment to the vehicle and the frame.

Abstract: An accessory for the boom of road working equipment has a frame arranged for attachment to the boom. The accessory also has a shaft rotatably mounted in the frame. Also included is a motor mounted on the frame for rotating the shaft. The accessory employs a rotary tool mounted on the shaft.

Abstract: A liquid cutting head for removing material with a high velocity jet of working liquid supplied by an ultra-high pressure pump includes a nozzle having an outlet for forming and directing a thin high velocity stream of liquid to impact against a workpiece to remove material therefrom. A suction hood surrounds the nozzle having an edge adjacent the workpiece and a liquid curtain extends between the edge of the hood and the workpiece for entrapping and wetting workpiece material removed by the liquid stream for pick up by the suction hood.

Abstract: A digging machine for planing a road. The machine has a massive main frame supported by large endless tracks. An elongated digging member has spaced shafts located at the opposed ends thereof. One of the shafts pivotally supports the digging member from the rear end of the main frame, while the other shaft rotatably supports a digging head. The digging head is rotated by spaced, endless chains that are driven by sprockets located on the pivot shaft and thereby rotates sprockets located on the other shaft. Cutter plates are supported by the spaced chains and form an endless cutter member. Opposed drums are mounted on opposed marginal ends of the driven shaft and are rotated by the driven sprockets. The drum surface has flights formed thereon. Digging teeth are mounted on the outer periphery of the flights and cutter plates. The digging head can be made as wide as the vehicle and thereby excavates adjacent to a vertical wall.

Abstract: The method and apparatus for removing structural concrete from a road bed includes a vehicle having a frame on wheels movable along a road bed and mounting a pivotal hood having a lowered use position adjacent the road bed and a raised position. A pressure water manifold upon the frame is connected to a source of pressurized water up to 25,000 p.s.i. A feed carriage is reciprocally mounted within the hood and supports a rotating seal and shaft assembly having a body with a water inlet connected to the manifold and a power rotated tubular shaft journaled upon the body receiving pressure water for delivery to a depending nozzle block connected to and depending from the shaft.

Abstract: A vibration damper for a road planer and the like with a main frame and a sub-frame movably connected thereto. A prime mover and a tool are mounted on the sub-frame, which includes frame members forming compartments adapted to receive lead shot particles therein. The particles absorb vibrational energy from the prime mover and the tool. A method of damping vibration is disclosed wherein vibrational energy is transmitted to the lead shot particles which vibrate and generate heat. The heat is dissipated through the frame members to the atmosphere.

Abstract: This invention describes an apparatus for breaking a hard surface such as a concrete road or bridge deck and essentially consists of a support for a torsional spring which is horizontally fixed to the support with a spaced rotational journal so that the torsional spring is mounted substantially horizontally. An oscillating member of desired mass characteristics is attached to the torsional spring with a force generating apparatus such as a hydraulic vibrator on one end of the oscillating member and a road crushing tool on the opposite end of the oscillating member. The oscillating member is attached rigidly to the torsional spring. Apparatus is also provided for positioning the impact or road crushing tool against the surface to be crushed and for maintaining the tool in that position during the crushing operation.The hydraulic vibrator, when it is operated, causes an axial oscillation in the torsional spring/mass system.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting a circular trough in a roadway whereby a traffic detection loop can be embedded with an advantageous round configuration. A frame for rotatably mounting a circular drill bit is pivotally engaged to a movable platform such as a single axle chassis. Hydraulic rams and hand-operated jacks engaged to the frame are provided for precise levelling and positioning of the circular drill bit. A hydraulically actuated motor drives the bit while a hydraulic ram adjusts downward cutting pressure. The unit is easily transported from location to location and the advantageous round shape is reliably and repeatedly achieved with great efficiency and speed.

Abstract: In a machine for cutting road surfaces, with an undercarriage having its own drive, with a cutting device arranged on it and having at least one cutting roller which extends transversely relative to the direction of travel and around which the cut material runs so as to be conveyed forwardly in the direction of travel, and with a conveyor device in the manner of a belt conveyor, arranged on the undercarriage, for transporting the cut material out of the cutting region to a collecting point, particularly onto a motor truck adjacent to the undercarriage, the conveyor device is arranged in front of the cutting device in the direction of travel at a passage orifice provided in a cover, and a material-collecting flap is arranged behind the cutting device in the direction of travel. The cover, the conveyor device receiving the cut material and the material-collecting flap are each fastened pivotably to the undercarriage, so that the cutting device is easily accessible in order to exchange the cutters.

Abstract: A road working machine for cutting into a road surface includes a power driven, cutting tooth carrying rotor comprising a plurality of rotor segments removably attached to a shaft to vary rotor width. Each of the segments includes a plurality of subsegments attached to one another and to the rotor by threaded fasteners. Rings supporting a higher concentration of cutting teeth angled toward the ends of the rotor can be secured to the endmost rotor segments for edge cutting. A cover for the rotor includes an adjustable baffle which may be secured at any of a plurality of positions in the cover to lie adjacent an end segment of the rotor in use regardless of the rotor width.

Abstract: A cutter is disclosed. The cutter comprises a frame, driving means mounted on said frame, having an output shaft, a casing mounted on said frame and rotatably receiving said output shaft at one end thereof, a rotatable shaft rotatably mounted on said casing at the other end thereof, driving force transmitting means mounted in said casing for transmitting the driving force of said output shaft to said rotatable shaft, and cutting means fixedly mounted on said rotatable shaft substantially at each outermost axial end thereof, and wherein said casing is interposed between said cutting means.