Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide road gap repairing equipment and a using method thereof, so as to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: the road gap repairing equipment comprises a trolley, a power mechanism and a hot melting furnace, wherein the power mechanism and the hot melting furnace are fixedly arranged on the trolley, a grooving machine and a blower are fixedly arranged on the power mechanism, a saw blade for grooving a road gap is arranged on the grooving machine, a blowing pipe is fixedly arranged on the blower, the blowing direction of the blowing pipe faces the ground and is used for cleaning the road gap, a cover plate is rotatably arranged on the hot melting furnace, a stirring rod for assisting in melting of crack pouring glue is rotatably arranged in the hot melting furnace, a thermometer for measuring temperature of internal crack pouring glue is fixedly arranged on the hot melting furnace, a switch assembly is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the hot melting furnace, a conveying pipe is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the hot melting furnace, a spray head is fixedly arranged at one end of the conveying pipe, a splash-proof plate for preventing crack pouring glue from splashing is arranged on the spray head, the splash guard is fixedly provided with a plurality of fixing rods, one end of each fixing rod is fixedly connected to the lower surface of a sliding part, the conveying pipe is fixedly provided with a sliding part, the sliding part is fixedly provided with a sliding rod, the trolley is provided with a sliding groove, the sliding rod is slidably arranged in the sliding groove, the sliding part is fixedly provided with a direction rod for enabling the sliding rod to slide, one side of the spray head is provided with two rollers, each roller is rotatably provided with a connecting shaft, each connecting shaft is fixedly provided with a connecting part, a telescopic rod is fixedly arranged between the two connecting parts, the sliding part is fixedly provided with a fixing part for limiting the telescopic rod, each roller is rotatably provided with a guide plate, one end of each guide plate is arranged into an arc shape and is combined into a funnel shape, one guide plate is fixedly provided with a first scraping plate, the other guide plate is fixedly provided with a second scraping plate, and the first scraping plate and the second scraping plate are arranged in a double-layer cross arrangement.
Preferably, each connecting piece is provided with a wedge-shaped rod fixedly arranged thereon, each wedge-shaped rod is provided with a wedge-shaped upper end, each direction rod is provided with a sleeve fixedly arranged thereon, each wedge-shaped rod is positioned in the sleeve, the upper end of the sleeve is in threaded connection with a knob, the interior of the sleeve is provided with a wedge-shaped block in a sliding manner, the lower end of the knob is rotationally connected with the upper end of the wedge-shaped block, the lower end of the wedge-shaped block is provided with a wedge-shaped and is matched with the inclined planes of the upper ends of the wedge-shaped rods on two sides of the wedge-shaped block, and a plurality of springs are fixedly connected between the wedge-shaped rods.
Preferably, each connecting piece is fixedly provided with a connecting plate, each connecting plate is fixedly provided with a piston, each piston is slidably mounted on the sliding piece, a flow velocity groove communicated with the conveying pipe is formed in the sliding piece, a Z-shaped plate is fixedly mounted in the flow velocity groove, the edge of the Z-shaped plate is tightly connected with the inner wall of the flow velocity groove, and a limiting hole matched with the piston is formed in the Z-shaped plate.
Preferably, a plurality of balls are arranged on inclined planes on two sides of the lower end of the wedge block, and each wedge rod is provided with an arc-shaped groove matched with the balls.
Preferably, a plurality of guide blocks are fixedly installed on the wedge blocks, a plurality of T-shaped grooves used for limiting the guide blocks are formed in the inner wall of the sleeve, the guide blocks are in one-to-one correspondence with the T-shaped grooves, and each guide block is slidably installed in the corresponding T-shaped groove.
Preferably, each wedge rod is fixedly provided with a plurality of limiting blocks, the inner wall of the sleeve is provided with a plurality of limiting grooves for limiting the limiting blocks, the limiting blocks correspond to the limiting grooves one to one, and each limiting block is slidably mounted in the corresponding limiting groove.
Preferably, guide grooves are formed in the inner walls of two sides of the sliding groove, two pulleys are rotatably mounted on the sliding rod, and each pulley is slidably mounted in the corresponding guide groove.
Preferably, a plurality of clamping blocks are fixedly installed on the first scraping plate, a plurality of clamping grooves used for limiting the clamping blocks are formed in the second scraping plate, the clamping blocks correspond to the clamping grooves one by one, and each clamping block is slidably installed in the corresponding clamping groove.
Preferably, each piston is provided with an annular plate in a sliding manner, and each annular plate is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the flow velocity groove.
The application method of the road gap repairing device comprises the following steps:
s1, preparing a proper amount of pouring glue raw materials, putting the pouring glue raw materials into a hot melting furnace, controlling a power mechanism to provide power for the hot melting furnace through a switch assembly, heating the pouring glue raw materials by the hot melting furnace, driving a stirring rod in the hot melting furnace to rotate and stir through the power mechanism, and judging whether the pouring glue raw materials in the hot melting furnace are melted completely or not through observing a thermometer;
s2, according to the size of a construction crack, the knob is rotated up and down, the knob is connected with the sleeve through threads, the knob drives the wedge blocks to move up and down, when the wedge blocks move down, the wedge blocks synchronously move reversely, the lower end connecting piece and the connecting shaft drive the two side rollers and the two side guide plates to move reversely synchronously, the distance between the two side guide plates is increased, when the wedge blocks move up, the wedge blocks are not limited by the two side inclined surfaces at the lower end of the wedge blocks, the wedge blocks at the two sides are pulled inwards through spring elasticity, the wedge blocks at the two sides are driven to move oppositely, the lower end connecting piece and the connecting shaft drive the two side rollers and the two side guide plates to move synchronously, the distance between the two side guide plates is reduced, the guide blocks move vertically along the T-shaped grooves, the two side guide plates move horizontally along the limiting grooves through the limiting grooves, the clamping blocks are limited through the clamping grooves, the two side guide plates drive the first scraping plates to move synchronously with the piston and the two sides of the piston to move synchronously, and the piston is also connected with the piston in a synchronous manner, and the piston is connected with the piston is in a synchronous manner, and the joint between the piston is also moved synchronously;
s3, pushing the cart to a crack starting position when the temperature in the hot melting furnace reaches a construction required range after knob adjustment is completed, controlling the switch assembly to enable the air blower and the grooving machine to work, simultaneously controlling the pouring sealant raw materials which are melted in the hot melting furnace to flow out along the conveying pipe and through the spray heads, pushing the cart to move along the cracks, and moving the spray heads by moving the steering rod when the cart turns inconveniently;
s4, gathering the crack pouring glue sprayed out of the spray head through the guide plate, meanwhile, extruding and trowelling the crack pouring glue by the first scraping plate and the second scraping plate to enable the crack pouring glue to be extruded into a pavement crack, scraping the surface, and completing repairing work after the crack pouring glue is cooled and solidified;
s5, after the filling and sealing operation is finished, the switch assembly is controlled to enable the redundant materials in the conveying pipe to return to the hot melting furnace.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
according to the invention, the conveying pipe and the spray head are slidably arranged on the trolley by utilizing the sliding piece, so that the spray height of the spray head is kept consistent, a worker is not required to hold the spray gun, the spray head is controlled to move by the steering rod, the spray direction can be manually adjusted when the trolley is inconvenient to turn, the sprayed joint filling glue is gathered and flattened by using the first scraping plate, the second scraping plate and the guide plate, the sprayed joint filling glue is pressed into a crack, the surface is scraped to be flat, and the repairing quality is improved.
According to the invention, the knob is utilized to drive the wedge-shaped plate to move up and down, the lower inclined surface of the wedge-shaped plate is matched with the inclined surfaces of the wedge-shaped rods at two sides to control the distance between the two wedge-shaped rods and the distance between the rollers at two sides, the connecting plate and the piston are driven to move through the connecting piece to control the flow of the crack pouring glue in the flow velocity groove, when the size of the crack is changed, the distance between the rollers is required to be adjusted, the amount of the crack pouring glue is required to be changed, and the crack pouring glue can be adjusted through the knob at the same time, so that the operation is simpler and more convenient, and the lack or redundant situation of the crack pouring glue is effectively reduced.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1-11, the present invention provides a technical solution: the road gap repairing equipment comprises a cart 1, a power mechanism 2 and a hot melting furnace 7 which are fixedly arranged on the cart 1, wherein a grooving machine 4 and a blower 3 are fixedly arranged on the power mechanism 2 (the grooving machine 4 and the blower 3 are of the existing known structures, so the invention is not repeated), the power mechanism 2 provides power for the grooving machine 4, the blower 3 and a device which needs power for the equipment, the grooving machine 4 is provided with a saw blade 5 for grooving a road gap, the blower 3 is fixedly provided with a blowing pipe 6, the blowing direction of the blowing pipe 6 faces the ground for cleaning the road gap, a cover plate 8 is rotatably arranged on the hot melting furnace 7, a stirring rod 9 for assisting the melting of the pouring glue is rotatably arranged in the hot melting furnace 7, a thermometer 10 for measuring the temperature of the internal pouring glue is fixedly arranged on the hot melting furnace 7, the switch assembly 11 is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the hot melting furnace 7, the switch assembly 11 controls the starting and stopping of a series of devices of the equipment, the bottom of the hot melting furnace 7 is fixedly provided with the conveying pipe 12, one end of the conveying pipe 12 is fixedly provided with the spray head 15, the spray head 15 is provided with the splash guard 16 for preventing the pouring sealant from splashing, the conveying pipe 12 is fixedly provided with the sliding piece 14, the splash guard 16 is fixedly provided with a plurality of fixing rods 17, one end of each fixing rod 17 is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sliding piece 14, the spray head 15 and the splash guard 16 synchronously move along with the sliding piece 14, the sliding piece 14 is fixedly provided with the sliding rod 18, the trolley 1 is provided with the sliding groove 20, the sliding rod 18 is slidably arranged in the sliding groove 20, the sliding piece 14 can drive the spray head 15 to move along the sliding groove 20 through the limit of the sliding groove 20, the inner walls on two sides of the sliding groove 20 are provided with the guide grooves 21, the sliding rod 18 is rotatably provided with two pulleys 19, each pulley 19 is slidably arranged in a corresponding guide groove 21, the pulleys 19 and the guide grooves 21 reduce friction between the sliding rod 18 and the sliding groove 20, the sliding piece 14 is convenient to slide along the sliding groove 20, the sliding piece 14 is fixedly provided with a direction rod 13 for enabling the sliding piece 14 to slide, the sliding piece 14 and the spray head 15 are driven to move by moving the direction rod 13, and when the cart 1 is inconvenient to turn, the spraying direction can be manually adjusted;
two rollers 22 are arranged on one side of the spray head 15, a connecting shaft 24 is rotatably arranged on each roller 22, a connecting piece 25 is fixedly arranged on each connecting shaft 24, a telescopic rod 26 is fixedly arranged between the two connecting pieces 25, a fixing piece 28 for limiting the telescopic rod 26 is fixedly arranged on the sliding piece 14, a guide plate 23 is rotatably arranged on each roller 22, one end of each guide plate 23 is arc-shaped and combined into a funnel shape, a first scraping plate 29 is fixedly arranged on one guide plate 23, a second scraping plate 30 is fixedly arranged on the other guide plate 23, the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30 are arranged in a double-layer cross arrangement and are inclined, after the pouring sealant is sprayed out of the spray head 15, the pouring sealant is gathered through the guide plates 23, and meanwhile the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30 squeeze and smooth the pouring sealant into a pavement crack, the surface is scraped and the repairing quality is improved;
when the size of the crack is changed, the interval between the guide plates 23 at two sides is required to be adjusted, the amount of the crack pouring glue is also required to be changed, each connecting piece 25 is fixedly provided with a wedge-shaped rod 40, the upper end of each wedge-shaped rod 40 is provided with a wedge shape, the direction rod 13 is fixedly provided with a sleeve 37, each wedge-shaped rod 40 is positioned in the sleeve 37, the upper end of the sleeve 37 is in threaded connection with a knob 38, the inside of the sleeve 37 is slidably provided with a wedge-shaped block 39, the lower end of the knob 38 is rotationally connected with the upper end of the wedge-shaped block 39, the lower end of the wedge-shaped block 39 is provided with a wedge shape and is matched with the upper inclined surfaces of the wedge-shaped rods 40 at two sides, a plurality of springs 41 are fixedly connected between the two wedge-shaped rods 40, when the knob 38 is rotated downwards, the knob 38 drives the wedge-shaped block 39 to synchronously move downwards, and the inclined surfaces at two sides of the lower end of the wedge-shaped block 39 are matched with the inclined surfaces at the upper ends of the wedge-shaped rods 40, the two side wedge rods 40 synchronously move reversely, the lower end connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 drive the two side rollers 22 and the two side guide plates 23 to synchronously move reversely, the distance between the two side guide plates 23 is increased, when the knob 38 is rotated upwards, the knob 38 drives the wedge blocks 39 to synchronously move upwards, the inclined surfaces at the two sides of the lower end of the wedge blocks 39 do not limit the inclined surfaces at the upper end of the two side wedge rods 40, simultaneously, the spring 41 always pulls the two side wedge rods 40 inwards to make the two side wedge rods 40 move oppositely, the lower end connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 drive the two side rollers 22 and the two side guide plates 23 to synchronously move oppositely, the distance between the two side guide plates 23 is reduced, a plurality of balls 44 are arranged on the inclined surfaces at the two sides of the lower end of the wedge blocks 39, arc grooves 45 matched with the balls 44 are arranged on each wedge rod 40, the friction between inclined planes at two sides of the lower end of the wedge block 39 and inclined planes at the upper end of the wedge rods 40 at two sides is reduced, a plurality of guide blocks 43 are fixedly arranged on the wedge block 39, a plurality of T-shaped grooves 46 for limiting the guide blocks 43 are arranged on the inner wall of the sleeve 37, the guide blocks 43 are in one-to-one correspondence with the T-shaped grooves 46, each guide block 43 is slidably arranged in the corresponding T-shaped groove 46, when the wedge block 39 is located in the sleeve 37 and slides up and down, the guide blocks 43 vertically move along the T-shaped grooves 46 through the limiting of the T-shaped grooves 46, a plurality of limiting blocks 42 are fixedly arranged on each wedge rod 40, a plurality of limiting grooves 47 for limiting the limiting blocks 42 are arranged on the inner wall of the sleeve 37, the limiting blocks 42 are in one-to-one correspondence with the limiting grooves 47, each limiting block 42 is slidably arranged in the corresponding limiting grooves 47, when the wedge rod 40 is acted by the wedge block 39, the limiting grooves 47, the wedge rods 40 at two sides horizontally move along the limiting grooves 47, a plurality of clamping blocks 31 are fixedly arranged on the first scraping plates 29, the second scraping plates 30 are provided with the limiting blocks 31, the clamping blocks 31 are arranged on the second scraping plates, and the sliding plates 32 are in one-to-one correspondence with the limiting grooves 32, and the sliding grooves 32 are not influenced by the sliding grooves, and the sliding plates 32 are horizontally arranged between the clamping blocks and the two clamping blocks 32, and the sliding plates are horizontally arranged;
each connecting piece 25 is fixedly provided with a connecting plate 27, each connecting plate 27 is fixedly provided with a piston 34, each piston 34 is slidably arranged on the sliding piece 14, the inside of the sliding piece 14 is provided with a flow velocity groove 33 communicated with the conveying pipe 12, the inside of the flow velocity groove 33 is fixedly provided with a Z-shaped plate 35, the edge of the Z-shaped plate 35 is tightly connected with the inner wall of the flow velocity groove 33, the Z-shaped plate 35 is provided with a flow limiting hole 36 matched with the piston 34, so that the sealant in the flow velocity groove 33 can only flow downwards through the flow limiting hole 36, when the distance between the two side wedge rods 40 is changed, the connecting pieces 25 drive the connecting plates 27 and the pistons 34 to move, the distance between the two side connecting plates 27 and the distance between the two side pistons 34 are also changed, when the distance between the two side wedge rods 40 is increased, the obstruction to the flow limiting hole 36 is reduced, the flow of the crack pouring glue in the flow limiting hole 36 is increased, the spray head 15 can spray more crack pouring glue, when the interval between the wedge rods 40 at two sides is reduced, the interval between the pistons 34 at two sides is also reduced, the obstruction to the flow limiting hole 36 is increased, the flow of the crack pouring glue in the flow limiting hole 36 is reduced, the flow of the crack pouring glue at the spray head 15 is also reduced, each piston 34 is slidably provided with an annular sheet 48, each annular sheet 48 is fixedly arranged on the inner wall of the flow velocity groove 33, when the pistons 34 at two sides move, the annular sheet 48 can scrape the crack pouring glue attached to the pistons 34, the obstruction of the crack pouring glue in the moving process is reduced, when the cracks with different sizes are faced, the interval between the guide plates 23 at two sides and the flow of the spray head 15 can be synchronously adjusted through the adjusting knob 38, the operation is simpler, and effectively reduces the lack or redundant situation of the crack pouring glue.
Specifically, firstly, putting the pouring sealant into the hot melting furnace 7 to melt, observing the thermometer 10, when the pouring sealant reaches a certain temperature, indicating that the pouring sealant is fully melted, repairing the pavement, operating the grooving machine 4 and the blower 3 through controlling the switch assembly 11, grooving and cleaning the pavement crack, spraying the pouring sealant in the hot melting furnace 7 through the conveying pipe 12 and the spray head 15, pushing the cart 1 to move along the pavement crack, gathering the pouring sealant through the guide plate 23 after the pouring sealant is sprayed out from the spray head 15, simultaneously extruding and trowelling the pouring sealant through the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30, extruding the pouring sealant into the pavement crack, scraping the surface, improving the repairing quality, limiting the slide bar 18 through the slide groove 20, driving the spray head 15 to move along the slide groove 20 by the slide piece 14, the pulley 19 and the guide groove 21 reduce friction between the slide bar 18 and the slide groove 20, the moving direction rod 13 can drive the slide piece 14 and the spray head 15 to move, when the cart 1 is inconvenient to turn, the spraying direction can be manually adjusted, when the size of a crack is changed, the distance between the two side guide plates 23 is required to be adjusted, the amount of crack filling glue is also required to be changed, when the knob 38 is rotated downwards, the knob 38 drives the wedge block 39 to synchronously move downwards, the wedge blocks 40 synchronously move reversely through the matching of the inclined surfaces of the two sides of the lower end of the wedge block 39 and the inclined surfaces of the upper ends of the wedge rods 40, the roller 22 and the guide plates 23 on the two sides are synchronously moved reversely through the connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 on the two sides, the distance between the guide plates 23 on the two sides is increased, when the knob 38 is rotated upwards, the knob 38 drives the wedge block 39 to synchronously move upwards, the inclined surfaces at the two sides of the lower end of the wedge block 39 do not limit the inclined surfaces at the upper end of the wedge rod 40 at the two sides, meanwhile, the elastic force of the spring 41 always pulls the wedge rod 40 at the two sides inwards to enable the wedge rod 40 at the two sides to move in opposite directions, the lower end connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 drive the roller 22 at the two sides and the guide plates 23 at the two sides to synchronously move in opposite directions, the distance between the guide plates 23 at the two sides is reduced, when the wedge block 39 slides up and down in the sleeve 37, the guide block 43 is limited by the T-shaped groove 46 to enable the guide block 43 to vertically move along the T-shaped groove 46, when the wedge rod 40 is acted by the wedge block 39, the limit groove 47 is used for limiting the limit block 42 to enable the wedge rod 40 at the two sides to horizontally move along the limit groove 47, when the distance between the guide plates 23 at the two sides is changed, the clamping groove 32 is used for limiting the clamping block 31 to enable the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30 to horizontally move, the gap between the wedge rods 40 at two sides is changed, the connecting piece 25 drives the connecting plate 27 and the piston 34 to move, the gap between the connecting plate 27 at two sides and the gap between the pistons 34 at two sides are synchronously changed, the gap between the pistons 34 at two sides changes the obstruction of the gap restricting holes 36, the flow of the gap filling glue at the gap restricting holes 36 is changed, so as to change the flow of the gap filling glue at the spray heads 15, when the pistons 34 at two sides move, the annular piece 48 can scrape the gap filling glue attached to the pistons 34, reduce the obstruction of the gap filling glue in the moving process, and can synchronously adjust the gap between the guide plates 23 at two sides and the flow of the spray heads 15 through the adjusting knob 38 when facing to cracks with different sizes, so that the operation is simpler and more convenient, the lack or the redundant situation of the crack pouring glue is effectively reduced;
the application method of the road gap repairing device comprises the following steps:
s1, preparing a proper amount of pouring sealant raw material, putting the pouring sealant raw material into a hot melting furnace 7, controlling a power mechanism 2 to provide power for the hot melting furnace 7 through a switch assembly 11, enabling the hot melting furnace 7 to heat the pouring sealant raw material, driving a stirring rod 9 in the hot melting furnace 7 to rotate and stir through the power mechanism 2, and judging whether the pouring sealant raw material in the hot melting furnace 7 is melted completely or not through observing a thermometer 10;
s2, according to the size of a construction crack, the knob 38 is rotated up and down to be adjusted, the knob 38 is in threaded connection with the sleeve 37, so that the knob 38 drives the wedge block 39 to move up and down, when the wedge block 39 moves down, the wedge bars 40 on two sides synchronously move reversely through the matching of the inclined planes on two sides of the lower end of the wedge block 39 and the inclined planes on the upper ends of the wedge bars 40 on two sides, and when the lower end connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 drive the roller 22 on two sides and the guide plates 23 on two sides synchronously move reversely, the distance between the guide plates 23 on two sides is increased, when the wedge block 39 moves up, the inclined planes on two sides of the lower end of the wedge block 39 do not limit the inclined planes on the upper ends of the wedge bars 40 on two sides, the wedge bars 40 on two sides are pulled inwards through the elasticity of the spring 41, so that the wedge bars 40 on two sides move oppositely, the lower end connecting piece 25 and the connecting shaft 24 drive the two side rollers 22 and the two side guide plates 23 to synchronously move in opposite directions, so that the distance between the two side guide plates 23 is reduced, the guide blocks 43 are limited by the T-shaped grooves 46, the guide blocks 43 vertically move along the T-shaped grooves 46, the limiting blocks 42 are limited by the limiting grooves 47, the two side wedge rods 40 horizontally move along the limiting grooves 47, the clamping blocks 31 are limited by the clamping grooves 32, the two side guide plates 23 drive the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30 to synchronously move, meanwhile, the two side connecting pieces 25 drive the two side connecting plates 27 and the two side pistons 34 to synchronously move, so that the distance between the two side connecting plates 27 and the two side pistons 34 is synchronously changed, and when the pistons 34 move, the annular pieces 48 scrape the pouring glue attached to the pistons 34;
s3, after the knob 38 is adjusted, pushing the cart 1 to a crack starting position when the temperature in the hot melting furnace 7 reaches a construction required range, controlling the switch assembly 11 to enable the blower 3 and the grooving machine 4 to work, simultaneously controlling the pouring sealant raw material after hot melting in the hot melting furnace 7 to flow out along the conveying pipe 12 and through the spray head 15, pushing the cart 1 to move along the crack, and moving the spray head 15 by moving the direction rod 13 when the cart 1 turns inconveniently;
s4, gathering the crack pouring glue sprayed out of the spray head 15 through the guide plate 23, meanwhile, extruding and trowelling the crack pouring glue by the first scraping plate 29 and the second scraping plate 30 to enable the crack pouring glue to be extruded into a pavement crack, scraping the surface, and completing repair work after the crack pouring glue is cooled and solidified;
s5, after the filling and sealing operation is finished, the switch assembly 11 is controlled to enable the surplus materials in the conveying pipe 12 to return to the hot melting furnace 7.
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Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.