Continuous sweep for road planing and milling machines
OwnerWinchester E. Lathaminventor
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Abstract
An apparatus, to be incorporated into but not limited to a road planer, that would sweep, vacuum material not put onto the existing conveyor by the milling operation, as it now exists. This apparatus would route this material onto the existing conveyors in planing and milling machines. This apparatus may also be added to force feed loaders converting them to street sweepers.
Claims14
A sweeper apparatus for use with a mobile roadway cleaning vehicle or the like, the mobile roadway cleaning vehicle including pick-up means for gathering a portion of loose material spread on a roadway or other surface in the path of the vehicle, and conveyor means for transporting a stream of the loose material gathered by the pick-up means to a point of reclamation, the sweeper apparatus comprising
- sweeper means for collecting an additional portion of the loose material spread on the roadway, the sweeper means being fixed to the mobile roadway cleaning vehicle to follow behind the pick-up means during operational movement of the vehicle so that substantially the remaining portion of loose material spread on the roadway in the path of the vehicle is removed from the roadway, and
- hopper means for dispensing the additional portion of the loose material collected from the road surface by the sweeper means onto the stream of loose material transported on the conveyor means prior to arrival of the stream at its point of reclamation so that the portion of the loose material gathered by the pick-up means and the additional portion of the loose material collected by the following sweeper means are combined on the conveyor means prior to delivery to the point of reclamation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.