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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1980
Robert F Goehler, Greencastle, PA (US);
Ingersoll-Rand Company, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention comprises a scraper assembly, and a method of forming same, for mounting forwardly of a padfoot-type, earth-compactor drum for scraping earth, mud and clay accretion from between rows of the padfeet, as well as for scraping the same from the faces of the padfeet, and in an embodiment thereof, the assembly comprises an array of longitudinally disposed and parallel rows of teeth arranged with diverging angles therebetween for efficiently cleaning the padfeet in both rotatable directions of the drum. The teeth are secured firmly to an I-beam which extends across the front of the drum, and a mounting assembly, for a fluid-pressure cylinder, is fixed to the I-beam to control a dozer blade.