US Patent: 976,012
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| Road Roller
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Patentee:
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| Marquis J. Todd (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, Erie County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Mar. 09, 1910 |
| Granted: |
Nov. 15, 1910 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Buffalo Pitts Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
It is well known in the art that in transporting road-rollers, more or less difficulty is experienced by skidding in passing over crowned roadbeds. This is due to the fact that the wide rollers by which the machines are steered have but limited contact with the road, namely, at the center, and this being in vertical line with the pivots of the roller-yokes the machines will rock to one side, and when being steered will usually skid toward the side of the road. It is my purpose to overcome this difficulty by making the front roll in sections so that the central section may be removed with the result that the machine may be used as a traction engine, the two end sections of the front roll serving as carrying wheels.
Claim:
A road-roller having front and rear carrying wheels, a roll designed to fit between the front carrying wheels and to form with the latter a front roll, and means carried by said roll for detachably securing it in place. |
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