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US 11,142,876 B2Granted
Articulating conveyor support for a cold planer
AssigneeCaterpillar Paving Products Inc.
InventorColton J. Hirman
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Abstract
A conveyor articulation joint for a planer machine is disclosed. The conveyor articulation joint includes a support member affixed to a machine attachment point, a pivot member having a conveyor attachment point, a joint connecting the support member and the pivot member, and an actuator configured to rotate the pivot member about the joint.
Claims19
A conveyor articulation joint comprising:
- a support member affixed to a machine attachment point, the machine attachment point is configured to rotate the conveyor articulation joint about a vertical axis to rotate a conveyor;
- a pivot member having a conveyor attachment point at one end and connected to the support member at an opposite end;
- a joint connecting the support member and the pivot member;
- and
- an actuator configured to rotate the pivot member about the joint.
2 more elements
A planer machine having:
- a primary conveyor system to receive debris from a planing drum;
- a secondary conveyor system to receive, at a proximal end, the debris from the primary conveyor system and to discharge the debris from a distal end;
- a conveyor articulation joint to support the proximal end of the secondary conveyor system, the conveyor articulation joint having:
- a support member attached to a frame of the planer machine at a machine attachment point;
- a pivot member attached to the secondary conveyor system at a conveyor attachment point at one end and connected to the support member at an opposite end;
- a joint connecting the support member and the pivot member;
- and
- an actuator configured to pivot the pivot member about the joint to change a proximal-end height of the secondary conveyor system.
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A method of detaching a conveyor system from a planer machine, the method comprising:
- supporting a distal end of the conveyor system;
- lowering a proximal end of the conveyor system by a conveyor articulation joint, the conveyor articulation joint having a support member, a pivot member, a joint connecting the support member and the pivot member, and an actuator, wherein the lowering is based at least in part on the actuator causing the pivot member to rotate about the joint;
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- disconnecting the conveyor system from the planer machine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.