Ingersoll-rand Company

Volvo Construction Equipment Ab

Dana R Rotz

Jeffrey Lynn Addleman

Robert F Goehler

Christopher L Junga

A closure device for a containment wall shaft opening is for a milling machine cutter drum assembly including a drum and a drive shaft for rotating the drum, the shaft extending through the wall opening to connect the drum with a mainframe and the shaft and or wall be relatively displaceable. A barrier member is movably coupled with the mainframe so as to be pivotable about an axis fixed with respect to the drum shaft and is disposeable against the containment wall prevent material flow through the wall opening. A coupler is configured to movably couple the barrier member with the containment wall such that relative vertical displacement between the drum shaft and the containment wall angularly displaces the barrier member about the axis as the position of the shaft within the opening is varied so that the barrier member extends across and obstructs the wall opening.

Containment wall closure device for milling machine cutter drum assembly

In the exemplary embodiment shown, the vehicle is a drum-type asphalt compactor having a pair of drum-compactor units coupled together for steering articulation. The units have prescribed axes of travel, and are coupled together for travel with the axes in line with, transverse to, or offset from, each other. A hydraulic piston and cylinder actuator displaces a coupling link, which is commonly, pivotedly joined to the units, to bring the travel axes into a transverse disposition. Another link or lock bar, freely engageable and disengageable from one of the units, is used also to couple the units together for the purpose of cooperating with the actuator and coupling link to bring the travel axes into an offset, parallelism.

Articulated vehicle

The mechanism, designed especially for use in an earth compacting drum, comprises a pair of concentrically-arranged, eccentrically-weighted elements, which are rotated in unison by means of a hydraulic motor. The mechanism is housed within an earth compacting drum, and the one eccentrically-weighted element is translatable, axially, and disengageable from a splined coupling, in order that it may be indexed to different rotary positions relative to the other eccentrically-weighted element. In this manner, vibratory amplitudes may be increased or decreased.

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Shippensburg, PA, United States of America

Dana R Rotz