Road construction vehicle with material hopper with pivot function
AssigneeJoseph Vogele AG
InventorsFrank GRIMM, Jan MÖLLENEY
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Abstract
A road construction vehicle comprises a chassis and a material hopper for receiving paving material. The material hopper has two hopper parts opposite each other, which are configured to define a receiving space for the paving material. At least one of the hopper parts has a base part and a side part. The base part is attached to the chassis pivotable about a main pivot axis between an open position and a closed position. The side part is attached to the base part along a pivot end edge of the side part pivotable about a side part pivot axis. A free end edge of the side part opposite the pivot end edge is configured to be located below the side part pivot axis when the base part is in the closed position.
Claims17
A road construction vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- and
- a material hopper for receiving paving material;
- wherein the material hopper has two opposite hopper parts which are configured to define a receiving space for the paving material;
- wherein at least one of the hopper parts has a base part and a side part;
- wherein the base part is attached to the chassis pivotable about a main pivot axis between an open position and a closed position;
- wherein the side part is attached to the base part along a pivot end edge of the side part pivotable about a side part pivot axis;
- and
- wherein a free end edge of the side part opposite the pivot end edge is configured to be located below the side part pivot axis when the base part is in the closed position.
A method for operating a road construction vehicle, comprising:
- pivoting at least one hopper part of a material hopper of the road construction vehicle with respect to a chassis of the road construction vehicle about a main pivot axis,
- wherein the pivoting of the at least one hopper part about the main pivot axis is coupled with a pivoting movement in which a side part of the at least one hopper part is pivoted relative to a base part of the at least one hopper part about a side part pivot axis.
A road construction vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- and
- a material hopper with at least one hopper part which is connected via a main pivot axis to the chassis, wherein the at least one hopper part is foldable via two pivot axes in order to bring the road construction vehicle from a working configuration into a transport configuration with a reduced space requirement as compared to the working configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.