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US 7,013,982 B2Granted
Range-master vehicle for safe recovery of ordnance and land mines
OwnerTerry Northcuttinventor
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Abstract
This device is a vehicle for scraping earth from regions containing land mines or munitions. The scraped earth is separated into munitions and earth, the earth is allowed to exit the vehicle's scraper bowl. The munitions and land mines are retained in the scraper bowl. The device is additionally armored in those regions where explosion of the cargo carrying, e.g., land mines, is found. Additionally, the device may be robotically operated.
Claims18
An elevating scraper adapted to be towed by a tractor to perform earth-removing and separating operations comprising:
- a forwardly openable scraper bowl having a bottom and a first opening in the bottom and further having a forwardly extending scraper edge that is movable with respect to the scraper bowl to remove earth and to pass that earth to an earth conveyor through said first opening as it is towed by the tractor,
- the earth conveyor adapted to receive scraped earth from the forwardly extending scraper edge and convey the scraped earth to a separator, and
- the separator configured to accept scraped earth from the earth conveyor and to separate and to retain comparatively larger material from the scraped earth and to pass comparatively smaller material through a second opening in the bottom of the scraper bowl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.