US 10,781,637 B1 · In-ground container installation apparatuses and auger blade assemblies

Abstract

In-ground container installation apparatuses may include a housing support frame. An apparatus housing having a housing interior may be resiliently carried by the housing support frame in a plumb and pendulum configuration. The housing support frame may be mounted for axial displacement between a mixing position and a digging position with respect to the apparatus housing when the apparatus housing is in a stationary position. A drive motor may be provided on the housing support frame. An auger blade assembly may be drivingly engaged for rotation by the drive motor. The auger blade assembly may be disposed in the housing interior in the mixing position of the housing support frame and extend from the apparatus housing in the digging position of the housing support frame. Auger blade assemblies for driving engagement by a drive motor of an in-ground container installation apparatus are also disclosed.

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Dependent claims

An in-ground container installation apparatus, comprising:

a housing support frame;
an apparatus housing having a housing interior resiliently carried by the housing support frame in a plumb and pendulum configuration, the housing support frame mounted for axial displacement between a mixing position and a digging position with respect to the apparatus housing when the apparatus housing is in a stationary position;
a drive motor carried by the housing support frame;
an auger blade assembly drivingly engaged for rotation by the drive motor, the auger blade assembly disposed in the housing interior in the mixing position of the housing support frame and extending from the apparatus housing in the digging position of the housing support frame;
wherein the auger blade assembly comprises a blade drive shaft drivingly engaged by the drive motor and an auger blade fighting extending from the blade drive shaft;
and
a blade clearance space between the auger blade fighting and the apparatus housing, the blade clearance space having a width of from 3/16″ to ½″.

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An in-ground container installation apparatus, comprising:

a housing support frame including:
a main frame member;
a pair of elongated, parallel, spaced-apart frame arms carried by the main frame member;
an apparatus housing resiliently carried by the housing support frame in a plumb and pendulum configuration, the apparatus housing including:
a housing wall with a proximal wall end and a distal wall end;
a housing interior formed by the housing wall between the proximal wall end and the distal wall end, the housing wall having an interior wall surface facing the housing interior and the housing support frame mounted for axial displacement between a mixing position and a digging position with respect to the apparatus housing when the apparatus housing is in a stationary position;
and
a pair of arm receptacles carried by the apparatus housing and telescopically receiving the frame arms of the housing support frame;
a drive motor carried by the apparatus housing;
and
an auger blade assembly disposed in the housing interior in the mixing position of the housing support frame and extending from the apparatus housing in the digging position of the housing support frame, the auger blade assembly including:
a blade drive shaft drivingly engaged for rotation by the drive motor;
and
an auger blade fighting extending from the blade drive shaft, the auger blade flighting having a blade edge;
and
a blade clearance space between the interior wall surface of the housing wall and the blade edge of the auger blade flighting.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

In-ground container installation apparatuses and auger blade assemblies

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