Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material – Ice-working devices – Relatively moving cutter
Patent
1990-09-28
1992-04-21
Reese, Randolph A.
Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material
Ice-working devices
Relatively moving cutter
299 89, 37222, 37242, 37142R, 172554, 172785, E01H 512
Patent
active
051061651
ABSTRACT:
A layer of material such as pavement or sheet ice coating the surface of a roadway is efficiently removed using apparatus that includes a longitudinal tube in a breaker assembly which is rotatably carried by a control frame beam that depends from an articulate hydraulic lift and tilt mechanism of a road grader. Coaxially attached to the tube and uniformly distributed along its length, a number of retainer rings each carry several radially extended teeth that function to fragment the layer. Each tooth includes a tip portion with a free end that penetrates and punctures the layer and a trailing divergent portion which enters the puncture and translates a linear force applied thereto into a radial outward force that fractures and fragments the side walls of each puncture when the breaker assembly is lowered onto the layer and a downward force is applied to each tooth as the breaker assembly rolls over the layer surface.
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Olsen Arlen L.
Reese Randolph A.
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