Removable padfoot shell conversion device
AssigneeIngersoll-Rand Company
InventorSteve K. Yates
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Abstract
A roller drum construction for a compacting machine includes a cylindrical primary drum with an arcuate outer surface for contacting material to be compacted; a removable shell for changing the outer surface of the primary drum from a planar to a padfoot surface, the removable shell being flexibly deformed into frictional engagement with the outer surface of the primary drum.
Claims6
A roller drum construction for a compacting machine comprising:
- a. a cylindrical primary drum with an arcuate outer surface for contacting material to be compacted;
- b. a removable shell for changing the outer surface of the primary drum from a planar to a padfoot surface comprising:
- i. a plurality of flexible arcuate mounting members curved to approximate the arcuate curvature of the outer surface of the primary drum;
- ii. a padfoot outer surface on said mounting members;
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- iii. means for connecting said mounting members to each other around the outer surface of the primary drum and for flexibly deforming said mounting members into frictional engagement with the outer surface of said primary drum.
For use in a drum compactor having a cylindrical primary drum with an arcuate outer surface for contacting material to be compacted, a removable shell for changing the outer surface of the primary drum from a planar to a padfoot surface comprising:
- a. a plurality of flexible arcuate mounting members curved to approximate the arcuate curvature of the outer surface of the primary drum;
- b. a padfoot outer surface on said mounting members;
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- c. means for connecting said mounting members to each other around the outer surface of the primary drum and for flexibly deforming said mounting members into frictional engagement with the outer surface of said primary drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.