Curbing machine with hopper dasher and eliptical compaction
A concrete curb forming and extruding apparatus with wheel adjustment locks, and an adjustable slip form system shaping cementitious material into a continuous curb forced there through by an extruder which receives materials stored in a hopper with dasher. The extruder has a rotary trowel compacting member which continually forces material from the hopper into compressed concrete passing through an adjustable slip form to fill the same and form differing shaped continuous curbing underneath fences or against vertical surfaces or conventional curbing, depending upon the slip form setting.
1. A manually maneuverable curb forming extruder propelled apparatus for concrete, cementitious and other similar plastic building materials comprising:
a. a chassis frame with speed reduction unit with walls defining a feed hopper with a top opening and sides structured to received, hold, and gravity feed building materials into a compaction chamber having a front and rear with a rear opening which directs building materials through the rear opening to propel the chassis frame forward,
b. a dasher with frame and cross-bar structured to mix building materials and sized to fit and pivot within the hopper pivotally affixed to the top opening to pivot front to rear as well as along the sides within the hopper to break up bridged building materials,
c. steering and castering wheels attached to the chassis frame via swinging arms which allow the wheels to be adjusted from side to side for manual steering of the apparatus,
d. a reciprocating compacting, member having a compacting surface orbitally mounted to the chassis frame such that the compacting surface moves in a reciprocating elliptical orbit within the compaction chamber to withdraw, drop and receive building materials from the bottom outlet of the hopper in a loading stroke, and to force and lift the building materials rearward into and through the rear opening of the compaction chamber in a compaction, stroke;
e. a removable slip form with open forward and rearward ends and an open bottom in communication with the compaction chamber rear opening to receive and sectionally form the building material into a continuous curb form, and
f. a drive motor with speed reducer associated with the compacting member to reciprocate and orbitally move the compacting member and, pivot the dasher.
2. A manually maneuverable curb forming extruder propelled apparatus according to claim 1 , including leveling means associated with the swinging arms to adjust the height and level of the chassis frame.
3. A manually maneuverable extruder propelled curb forming apparatus according to claim 1 , including a guide with an opening mounted to the chassis frame beneath the compaction chamber and structured to accommodate and travel along a reinforcing rod to align the apparatus and form a finished curb about said reinforcing rod.
4. A manually maneuverable extruder propelled curb forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the slip form is releasably attached via a spring bar retainer.
5. A manually maneuverable extruder propelled curb forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the slip form is mounted to a wall of the hopper such that the slip form can be inserted beneath and forma curb under a bottom of an overlying fence or barrier.
6. A manually maneuverable extruder propelled curb forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the drive motor with speed reducer includes a gear box mounted to the chassis frame with an eccentric bearing mounting connection reciprocating the compaction member.
7. A manually maneuverable extruder propelled curb forming apparatus according to claim 1 , including speed adjustment means associated with the drive motor.