发明名称 Single operator trenching pipe laying device and method
摘要 A single operator extruder main body dispenses aggregate, pipe and geotextile during a trenching operation. Lifting elements allows the main body to be manipulated by a single operator.
申请公布号 US9057458(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.06.16
申请号 US201313829996 申请日期 2013.03.14
申请人 发明人 Rettkowski Brady A.
分类号 F16L1/028 主分类号 F16L1/028
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A trenching pipe laying device comprising the following: an extruder main body (100) which is a structural shell of the device; the said extruder main body (100) having an inside (103) comprising an aggregate hopper (105); a turntable arm (130) which is elongated and constructed from a rigid material, including metals and other rigid structural materials, is affixed to the rolled pipe turntable (120) and is removably connected to the main body (100); a trenching bucket lifting coupler (1020) is attached to the extruder main body (100); geotextile fabric holder brackets (1090) are attached to an outside of the extruder main body (100) to which are affixed, by mechanical devices, a geotextile fabric door (1110) having a geotextile fabric door handhold (1120) and geotextile slide plates (1130) which allows geotextile fabric to roll freely as pipe laying proceeds; an extruder skid plate (1150), located at the bottom of the device main body (100), has a large center opening (1151) to allow leach line aggregate, having weight, to be supported at a trench bottom instead of the device; a pipe intake cone (1160); an upper pipe sleeve (1170) is immovably connected to the pipe intake cone (1160) and is rigidly connected to a telescope sleeve crossmember (1190); the lower pipe sleeve (1180) is rigidly connected to the telescope sleeve crossmember (1190) and is in alignment with and interconnected with the upper pipe sleeve (1170); the lower pipe sleeve (1180) is attached to lower pipe sleeve mounts (1200) and rests inside the telescope sleeve cross member (1190); the interconnected upper pipe sleeve (1170) and the lower pipe sleeve (1180) are in pipe communication and deliver flexible pipe through the aggregate hopper to a vertical location within a leach line extrusion; and, the telescope sleeve cross member (1190) is attached to an inside of vertical side walls of the extruder main body (100) and the upper pipe sleeve (1180); the interconnected upper pipe sleeve (1170) and the lower pipe sleeve (1180) co-exist with the aggregate within the aggregate hopper (105); an extrusion exit opening (1420), at a lower rear of the main body (100), dispenses the aggregate through the extrusion exit opening (1420); the lower pipe sleeve (1180) extends proximal to and terminates proximal to the extrusion exit opening (1420); pipe is dispensed via the lower pipe sleeve (1180) where both aggregate and the pipe are covered with a geotextile fabric.
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