US1814695A

US1814695A - Rotary snow remover

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Publication number: US1814695A
Application number: US302559A
Authority: US
Inventors: George M Hineline
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-08-28
Filing date: 1928-08-28
Publication date: 1931-07-14
Anticipated expiration: 1948-07-14

Description

July 14, 1931. G. M. HINELENE 1 ROTARY SNOW REMOVER Filed Aug. 28, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor July 14, 1931. G. M. HINELINE ROTARY SNOW REMOVER Filed Aug. 28, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 m, Attorney July 14, 1931. G. M. HINELINE 1,814,695

ROTARY SNOW REMOVER Filed Aug. 28. 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 In 0272 tor imiyeflfli'neizkze Attorney July l4, 1931. s. M. HIN ELINE v 1,814,695

ROTARY SNOW REMOVER Filed Aug.- 2a, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Inventor fivg jzflilzeiz'ize Patented July 14, 1931 UNITED STATES GEORGE M. HINELINE, OF RICE LAKE, WISCONSIN ROTARY snow nnivrovnn Application filed August 28, 1928. Serial No. 302,559.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in snow plows and has for its prime object to provide a simple and efficient means for removing snow from a road or highway, and means associated therewith for discharging the snow removed from the road to the outside of-the highway proper, thereby eliminating the process of ridging the snow along the track at each side of the highway, and thus leaving the highway clear and clean for another snow.

Another very important object of the invention resides in the provision of a snow. plow of the above mentioned character which is of such a construction as to enable the same to be readily attached to any standard makes of tractor and to be driven by said tractor.

A further very important objectof the invention resides in the provision of a snow remover of the above mentioned character which is thoroughly reliable in operation, strong and durable, inexpensive to manufacture, compact and convenient in its arrangement of parts, easy to manipulate, and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in View, as will appear as the descrip tion proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of the snow remover, embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a transverse vertical view, taken through the floor and discharge spout portion of the remover.

Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section through the snow remover. v

Figure 5 is a detail transverse section taken substantially on the line 55 of Figure 4. Figure 6 is a transverse section through the spout.

Figure"? is a perspective view of an attachment bar, and

i Figure 8 is an enlarged detail elevation of the outer end of the discharge spout.

Referring to the drawings in detail, it will be seen that numeral 5 denotes the two channel bars which are disposed in spaced coextensive relationship, being attached to extensionframe chassis bars 6 of a tractor 7 by means of elongated plates 8, bolted thereto as at 9. These frame bars 5 have their forward ends inclined downwardly and forwardly. A scoop S is mounted on thefforward portion of the bars 5 and includes a bottom 10, having a downwardly bowed rear central portion 11, merging'into the bottom portion of a frusto-conieal'trough like flange 12, which merges at its smaller rear end into a cylindrical fan casing 1 1, that is supported between the bars 5', by a cradle bar or structure 15, which hasits ends fastened in the channels of the bar 5 as shown at 5-. This fan casing 14 is braced, as at 15, in respect to an upright inverted U-shaped frame 16,.rising from the rear portions of the bars 5 and rigidly attached thereto. This upright frame member 16 is braced in respect to the radiator of the tractor 7 as at 18. A centrifugal fan-like structure is mounted in the casing 14 and includes a plurality of blades 19, radiating from a shaft 20, journaled in a bearing 21 in the center rear wall of the casing. This fan has a conical shaped deflector 23,. coaXially mounted thereon in respect to the fan. A tangential outlet 24 projects from the lower portion'ofthe casing to one side and has hingedly connected thereto, as at 25, adischarge spout 26, of cylindrical construction. Opposite the hinge is a flexible covering 27 of spherical segmental configuration between the outlet 24 andthe spout 26. At the upper end of the spout 26 there is hingedly mount- 90 ed as at 28, a plurality of sections 29, for directing the snow being discharged at the desired height.

A bracket rises from the top of the easing 14:, and support brackets 31 and 32 with

pulleys

33 and 34 respectively therein. A cable 35 is trained over the pulley 33 and connected to the end section 29 so that the sections may be collapsed or extended, these sections being normally extended by springs 36. A cable 37 is trained over the pulleys 34c and attached to an intermediate portion of the spout 26, as at 38, so that the spout may be raised and lowered as desired.

It is thought that the construction, opera- I merely for the purposes of exemplification,

because in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description. I Having thus described my invention,- what I claim as new is:

1. In a snow plow construction, a scoop, a fan casing havingan outlet therein, fan

in the casing, deflecting flange joining the scoop and fan casing, a pair of spaced bars connected at then: forward ends to the scoop and at their rear ends, adapted to be connected to vehicle chassis frame, a cradle bar joined at the opposite ends to said bar, an intermediate portion of said cradle b'ar arranged in underlying abutment to the fan casing for supporting the latter, said spaced bars formed with inwardly directed channels, the ends of the cradle bar being anchored to saidchannels, an upright in'- verted U-shaped frame disposed rearwardly of the fan casing and having the ends there of anchored to the spaced bars, and stra s secured to the U-shaped frame and the fan casing, for supporting the fan casing.

- 2. In a snow plow construction, a forward: ly directed scoop, a circular fan casing, a fan in said casing, said fan easing having an outlet, a rearwardly and inwardly directed deflector flange beneath the rear portion of the scoop and the forward portion of the ca'slng, a pair of forwardly projectingspaced co-e'xtensive channel bars adapted to be connected to the chassis frame of a vehicle at their rear ends and at'their forward ends tothe'scoop; a' cradleba'r having itsop posite' ends in the channels of said bars and having an intermediate portion of said GEORGE M. HINELINE.