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Alfred W Taylor

Thomas Moriz Taylor

An apparatus and method for pulverizing asphalt on roadways and similar applications. The asphalt is pulverized by a rotating drum with removable cutting tips which engage a soften underside of the roadway prior to engaging a harder more compact top surface of the roadway. The apparatus designed for receiving and rotating various widths of drums and adaptable for moving the drum along the width of a mobile piece of equipment supporting the apparatus and adjacent a curb and gutter of a roadway.

Apparatus and method for pulverizing asphalt

A Spanner Wrench includes a handle, a support bar connected to the handle, the bar having holes drilled through it at the respective ends of the bar, and an eccentrically mounted drive pin carrier, the drive pin carrier including a base plate, having a rod mounted on one face thereof near the edge of the plate and having a drive pin mounted on a second face thereof at a position diametrically opposite to the mounting rod position. The mounting rod having a portion opposite to the end mounted on the base plate threaded to accept a nut which when tightened holds the base plate firmly against the bar. The range of adjustment of a Spanner Wrench according to the present invention is approximately four times the length or diameter of the base plate.

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Arvada, CO, United States of America

Alfred W Taylor