Trail grooming method and apparatus
OwnerBruce Vruwinkinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for hardening the surface of a snow and ice covered trail which includes apparatus for travel over the snow and/or ice covered terrain that includes means to remove entrained air from snow and/or ice particles proximate to the apparatus; means for redistribution of the dispersed snow and ice laterally and axially with respect to the apparatus incident to movement of the apparatus after dispersing has occurred; and means for compacting snow and ice redistributed in the means for redistributing to increase the hardness of the snow and ice that has been redistributed.
Claims12
Apparatus for hardening the surface of a snow and ice covered trail which comprises:
- means for movement of the apparatus over a snow and ice covered terrain that includes means to remove entrained air from snow and or ice particles proximate to said apparatus, said means to remove entrained air includes an elongated auger that feeds snow and ice from each axial extremity thereof toward the center thereof;
- means for redistribution of the dispersed snow and ice laterally and axially with respect to the direction of movement of the apparatus after dispersing has occurred;
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- means for compacting snow and ice redistributed by said means for redistributing to increase the hardness of the snow and ice that has been redistributed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.