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US 2016/0097176 A1Published application
Hydraulic pole tamper handle and adapter
AssigneeTH Welding & Hydraulics, LLC
InventorTimothy Hamilton
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Abstract
A hydraulic pole tamper with an extended ergonomic handle including a frame and hose clamps to extend the life of the hose by securing the hoses to the frame and to improve the handle, orientation, and usability of the pole tamper. The pole tamper is used to tamp or compact the dirt around a pole which has been set into a hole in the ground to fixedly secure the pole vertically in the ground.
Claims2
A pole tamper handle and adapter consisting of:
- an upright longitudinal cylindrical housing including a hydraulic impact unit with a hydraulic cylinder and piston, said piston extending from a bottom of said hydraulic impact unit and having a tamper head fixedly attached thereto;
- two hydraulic hoses fluidly attached to a top end of said hydraulic impact unit;
- a handle frame adapter fixedly connected to a top of said longitudinal cylindrical housing;
- said handle frame adapter including a horizontal handle, an open ended cylindrical base with a first open end at a top of said cylindrical base and a second open end at a bottom of said cylindrical base, said cylindrical base having a diameter sized to fit down onto a top of said longitudinal cylindrical housing, said handle having two ends, a first end of said handle connected to a top edge of said cylindrical base by a first longitudinal strip, a second end of said handle connected to a top edge of said cylindrical base by a second longitudinal strip at a point opposite of said first longitudinal strip,
- said first and said second longitudinal strips having a gap there between, said gap being bridged by a cross member, said cross member having two apertures formed therein;
- said cylindrical base having two apertures formed in the sidewalls thereof;
- two hydraulic hose clamps including elastomeric bushings therein;
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- two fasteners capable of fastening said two hydraulic hose clamps with hoses into said two apertures formed within said cross member.
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A pole tamper handle frame kit consisting:
- a handle frame fixedly connected to a top of said longitudinal cylindrical housing;
- said hand frame including a horizontal handle, an open ended cylindrical base with a first open end at a top of said cylindrical base and a second open end at a bottom of said cylindrical base, said cylindrical base having a diameter sized to fit down onto a top of a longitudinal cylindrical housing of a common pole tamper, a first end of said handle connected to a top edge of said cylindrical base by a first longitudinal strip;
- a second end of said handle connected to a top edge of said cylindrical base by a second longitudinal strip at a point opposite of said first longitudinal strip, said first and said second longitudinal strips having a gap there between, said gap being bridged by a cross member, said cross member having two apertures formed therein;
- said cylindrical base having two apertures formed in the sidewalls thereof;
- two hydraulic hose clamps including elastomeric bushings therein;
- two fasteners capable of fastening said two hydraulic hose clamps with hoses into said two apertures formed within said cross member;
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- two fasteners capable of fastening said cylindrical base to said longitudinal cylindrical housing through said two apertures formed within said cylindrical base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.