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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Jacob Ryan Ellwein, Oak Grove, MN (US);
Ronald D. Wilson, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Steven Paul Goutermont, Saint Michael, MN (US);
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Abstract
A material feed system for a paving machine includes a first sensor assembly, a second sensor assembly, and a controller configured to independently operate each of a left material feed mechanism and a right material feed mechanism with respect to one another and, selectively, in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a speed of each of a left auger, a left conveyor, a right auger, and a right conveyor is automatically adjusted. In the second mode, the speed of at least one of the left auger, the left conveyor, the right auger, and the right conveyor is manually set by an operator input, one of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism is operated in the first mode, and the other of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism is simultaneously operated in the second mode.