Concrete curing machine
AssigneeCMI Corporation
InventorsChapin Baum Sipherd, John Robert Lease, Robert L. Stainbrook
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Abstract
A concrete curing and texturing machine includes a truss frame supporting a reservoir of curing fluid and drive members positioned at the ends of the truss frame for powering the machine longitudinally along a roadway being surfaced. A texturing carriage is mounted to the truss frame and arranged to longitudinally move back and forth along the truss frame. A truss member is mounted rearwardly of the truss frame and includes a sprayboom carriage unit which moves longitudinally move back and forth along the truss member. The sprayboom carriage unit supports a sprayboom having a plurality of nozzles operatively connected to the liquid reservoir.
Claims22
A concrete curing machine including an elongated truss frame having first and second ends, with the elongated truss frame supporting a reservoir of curing fluid and having a drive member positioned at the first and second ends of the truss frame for moving the truss frame longitudinally along a roadway or the like being surfaced with concrete, the concrete curing machine comprising a sprayboom carriage member structurally arranged and mounted to the elongated truss frame and adapted to longitudinally move back and forth along the elongated truss frame, with said sprayboom carriage member supporting a spray boom having a plurality of nozzles thereon operatively connected to the liquid reservoir to deposit a predetermined amount of the curing liquid onto the surface of the finished concrete.
A concrete curing and texturing machine, including in combination:
- an elongated truss frame having first and second ends, with said truss frame supporting a reservoir of curing fluid and having a drive member positioned at the first and second ends of said truss frame for moving the truss frame longitudinally along a roadway or the like being surfaced of finished concrete;
- a texturing carriage unit mounted to said elongated truss frame and structurally arranged and adapted to longitudinally move back and forth along said elongated truss frame;
- an elongated extended truss member mounted rearwardly of said elongated truss frame;
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- a sprayboom carriage member structurally arranged and mounted to said elongated extended truss member and adapted to longitudinally move back and forth along said elongated truss member, with said sprayboom carriage member supporting a sprayboom having a plurality of nozzles thereon and being operably connected to the liquid reservoir to deposit a predetermined amount of the curing liquid onto the surface of the concrete.
The concrete curing and texturing machine in accordance with claim 21, further including control means for predeterminely controlling the rate of travel of each of said texturing carriage unit and said sprayboom carriage member with respect to one another back and forth across the surface of the concrete.
A concrete curing and texturing machine, including in combination;
- an elongated truss frame having first and second ends, with said truss frame supporting a reservoir of curing fluid and having a drive member positioned at the first and second ends of said truss frame for moving the truss frame longitudinally along a roadway or the like being surfaced of finished concrete;
- a texturing carriage unit mounted to said elongated truss frame and structurally arranged and adapted to engage the concrete to provide longitudinal grooves in the concrete;
- an elongated extended truss member mounted rearwardly of said elongated truss frame;
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- a sprayboom carriage member structurally arranged and mounted to said elongated extended truss member and adapted to longitudinally move back and forth along said elongated truss member, with said sprayboom carriage member supporting a sprayboom having a plurality of nozzles thereon and being operably connected to the liquid reservoir to deposit a predetermined amount of the curing liquid onto the surface of the concrete.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.