Road structure – process – or apparatus – Process – Providing expansion joint
Patent
1992-06-18
1994-06-07
Neuder, William P.
Road structure, process, or apparatus
Process
Providing expansion joint
404 88, 404100, E01C 2304
Patent
active
053183770
ABSTRACT:
A paving machine having a medially located dowel bar feeder positioned in front of a dowel bar inserter. The machine has a screw or paddle for spreading the concrete and a front strike-off to allocate a proper amount of unconsolidated concrete beneath the machine. Next in line, internal vibrators are mounted to the machine to perform a preliminary consolidation of the concrete, followed by a screed to meter out a correct volume of consolidated concrete for a finished concrete slab. To the rear of the screed, the dowel bar feeder drops dowel bars in a predetermined pattern on the top surface of the consolidated concrete. The dowel bar inserter is mounted to the paving machine behind the dowel bar feeder and is adapted to travel between a forward position and a rear position and includes a plurality of vibrating forks which descend to engage the dropped dowel bars and insert the dowels into the unhardened concrete. Behind the dowel bar inserter, the machine includes a center bar inserter, a tube vibrator, a tamping bar, an extrusion pan and a float pan. The paving machine may be adapted to insert dowel bars for transverse joints in a straight or a skewed pattern. In the case of the straight pattern, all the dowel bars for each transverse joint are dropped at the same time. For the skewed pattern, the dowel bars for each transverse joint are dropped one at a time.
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Smith Don W.
Swisher, Jr. George W.
CMI Corporation
Neuder William P.
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