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US 4,304,504 AGranted
Unsegregator shroud for hot mix asphalt laydown machine
AssigneeRiguez Associates
InventorJose A. Trujillo
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Abstract
An improvement to a laydown machine comprising an unsegregator shroud connected to the ejector chute of the aggregate elevator transporter. The shroud extends around the chute to constrain the path of aggregates as they are fed into the feed box of the paving machine.
Claims5
An improved laydown machine comprising a paving machine for spreading hot-mix asphalt mixtures, said paving machine including feeding box means for storing asphalt materials that are supplied to said paving machine, and elevator means for transferring hot mix from the road surface to said feeding box means, wherein the improvement comprises:
- unsegregating means disposed between elevator means and feeding box means for unsegregating aggregates of a hot-mix asphalt paving mixture wherein said unsegregating means comprises a flexible shroud means disposed around the output of said elevator means for constraining the path of aggregates transferred by said elevator means to said feeding box means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.