Taisei Road Construction Co., Ltd.

Ken-ichi Igarashi

Tatsuhiko Chiba

Tatsuhiko Ohiba

A scarifier suspended beneath the body of an automotive vehicle such that it is vertically movable by means of cylinders. It comprises a suspending frame provided on a main frame vertically movable by means of the cylinders so that it may be freely slidable in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body, a plurality of supporting bars horizontally disposed within the suspending frame so that they may extend in the longitudinal direction of the suspending frame and so that any two adjacent bars may be connected in series to each other by means of a pin, said supporting bars being each connected to a cylinder vertically provided on the suspending frame so that each bar may be inclined in the longitudinal direction, and a multiplicity of claws provided, at prescribed intervals, on the supporting bars by way of pins in such a manner that they extend downwards from the pins and that they are swingable about the pins.

Scarifier

Disclosed is a road surface layer reproducing apparatus which comprises a mixture hopper, a scarifier, and a mixer means including a first mixer of single-shaft rotor system and a second mixer of twin-shaft rotor system. This apparatus is characteristic of a mixture hopper swingable laterally around its hopper supporting shaft, a sacrifier whose claws are so loosely fitted that the tip ends of the claws can follow up the contour of a road being remedied, a first mixer provided with a single-shaft rotor with a depth-measuring device for controlling the depth of penetration of the rotor into the asphalt of the road and mounted with screws for forming a windrow of an asphalt mixture to the center of the main body of the apparatus and a second mixer provided with parallel mounted twin-rotors which is vertically movable by a three-point supporting mechanism.

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Kohnosu, Japan

Ken-ichi Igarashi