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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Liquid Waste Technology, Llc, New Richmond, WI (US);
Ryan Patrick Horton, Leawood, KS (US);
David Meyer, Hudson, WI (US);
Robert M. Schettle, Hudson, WI (US);
Brian John Lindahl, Somerset, WI (US);
Liquid Waste Technology, LLC, New Richmond, WI (US);
Abstract
A cutterhead for dredging a body of water. The cutterhead comprising a shroud including a top wall, a bottom wall, and two sidewalls each extending between the top and bottom walls. The cutterhead additionally comprises a rotatable cutterbar at least partially received within an interior space presented by the shroud, a first water-jet bar extending along a portion of the top wall of the shroud, and a second water-jet bar extending along at least a portion of one of the two sidewalls. The cutterbar and the water-jet bars are configured to generate a slurry of fluidized material from the water-bed.