Dirt distribution device
AssigneeR&R Enterprises of Okezhobee Inc.
InventorCurtis R. Waldron
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Abstract
A dirt distribution device for attachment to the outboard end of an earth moving blade of a grader machine includes a motor driven rotary dirt slinger carried on a platform that is pivotally carried on a support arm that, in turn, pivots on the clamp unit that mounts the device to the blade. The device serves to sling dirt scraped up by the moving blade over areas inaccessible to the blade, e.g., around the base of trees planted in rows adjacent ditches that require periodic reconditioning by scrapping using grader machines. The device basically includes a turnbuckle or equivalent unit to adjust the radial angle of the support arm relative to the blade and a similar unit to adjust the radial angle of the platform relative to the support arm, but may include further adjustment units to add additional tilt modes to the platform.
Claims11
A dirt distribution device for attachment to an earth moving blade of a grader machine which comprises:
- clamp means for attachment of said device to an end of said earth moving blade,
- an elongated arm defined by a longitudinal axis, an inboard end section and an outboard end section, said arm being pivotally mounted by said inboard end section to said clamp means permitting a radial position of said arm relative to said clamp means to be varied,
- a platform defined by an inboard end portion, an outboard end portion, a forward side and a rearward side,
- pivot means permitting the radial position of said platform relative to said arm to be varied comprising a shaft defined by a forward segment and a rearward segment mounting said platform by said inboard end portion upon said outboard end section of said arm for pivotal movement of said platform about an axis normal to said longitudinal axis,
- prop means to brace said pivot means relative to said arm,
- motor means carried upon said platform,
- dirt sling means rotatably carried by said motor means,
- inboard adjustment means to vary said radial position of said arm relative to said clamp means, and
- outboard adjustment means to vary said radial position of said platform relative to said arm.
A dirt distribution device for attachment to the earth moving blade of a grader machine which comprises:
- clamp means for attachment of said device to an end of said earth moving blade
- an elongated arm defined by a longitudinal axis, an inboard end section and an outboard end section, said arm being pivotally mounted by said inboard end section to said clamp means permitting a radial position of said arm relative to said clamp means to be varied,
- a platform defined by an inboard end portion, an outboard end portion, a forward longitudinal side and a rearward longitudinal side,
- pivot means permitting the radial position of said platform relative to said arm to be varied comprising a shaft defined by a forward segment and a rearward segment mounting said platform by said inboard end portion upon said outboard end section of said arm for pivotal movement of said platform about an axis normal to said longitudinal axis,
- prop means to brace said pivot means relative to said arm,
- motor means carried upon said platform,
- dirt sling means rotatably carried by said motor means,
- inboard adjustment means to vary said radial position of said arm relative to said clamp means, and
- outboard adjustment means to vary said radial position of said platform relative to said arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.