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US 6,631,602 B2Granted
Apparatus for installing wall insulation
AssigneeTherm-All, Inc.
InventorJeffrey P. Wagner
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Abstract
A carriage having a base frame supported on rolling elements, and an upper frame tiltably supported on the base frame for leveling the upper frame when the base frame is inclined from side-to-side. The upper frame supports at least three rolls of insulation. The carriage is supported on the framework of a building roof and moves along a building wall for dispensing vertical lengths of insulation which are secured to the wall.
Claims15
Apparatus for installing insulation on building walls comprising:
- a carriage including a base frame and an upper frame, said base frame having front and
- rear ends and opposite sides;
- said upper frame including an insulation roll support that supports a roll of insulation about a roll axis;
- said base frame having rolling elements that provide movement of said base frame in a direction parallel to the roll axis, said rolling elements including a pair of spaced-apart front rolling elements adjacent said frame front end and a pair of spaced-apart rear rolling elements adjacent said frame rear end, and a drive mechanism that rotatably drives all of said rolling elements in unison;
- said upper frame being tiltably mounted on said base frame for movement about a leveling axis that extends parallel to the base frame and perpendicular to the roll axis to provide leveling of the roll axis when the base frame is inclined from side-to-side in its direction of movement.
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Apparatus for installing insulation on building walls comprising:
- a carriage including a base frame and an upper frame;
- said upper frame including an insulation roll support that supports a roll of insulation about a roll axis, wherein said insulation support includes a pair of spaced-apart toothed rails engageable by toothed sprockets at opposite ends of an insulation roll;
- said base frame having rolling elements that provide movement of said base frame in a direction parallel to the roll axis;
- said upper frame being tiltably mounted on said base frame for movement about a leveling axis that extends parallel to the base frame and perpendicular to the roll axis to provide leveling of the roll axis when the base frame is inclined from side-to-side in its direction of movement, wherein said insulation roll support is elongated in a direction parallel to said leveling axis to support at least three rolls of insulation.
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The apparatus for installing insulation on building walls comprising:
- a carriage including an insulation roll support that supports rolls of insulation about a roll axis;
- said insulation roll support including a pair of spaced-apart rails extending perpendicular to the roll axis for supporting rolls of insulation therebetween;
- said rails having a length sufficient to support a plurality of rolls of insulation thereon parallel to one another;
- said rails terminating at an insulation dispensing station whereat an insulation roll is rotatable about the roll axis while being held against movement along the rails.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.