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A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7669724 | Common pipelayer frame for multiple machine configurations A pipelayer frame for a track-type machine having an engine compartment, a first track frame, and a second track frame is disclosed. The frame has a center frame removably attachable within the engine compartment, a first side frame removably attachable to the first... | 03/02/2010 |
| 6843619 | Apparatus able typically to transform a frame mounted on crawler tracks into a pipe playing machine An apparatus transforms a motorized frame mounted on crawler tracks and having a rotatable horizontal platform, into a pipeline laying machine or the like. A first structure is hinged to the platform on a horizontal axis at one end, at its other end, has a coupling ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6609622 | Bulldozer/pipelayer combination A combination bulldozer and pipelayer includes a front mounted blade, or scoop, and a side mounted pipelayer attachment. When operated as a bulldozer, a pair of endless track roller frames are free to oscillate up and down about a horizontal axis passing ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6206627 | Loading device for containers or similar A loading device for containers (C) comprises a pair of loading units (2), each having a telescopic column (4) supported on a bracket (3) so as to be swivelled about a common swivel axis (I). The telescopic column consists of a lower portion (9), an upper... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6000563 | Sideboom assembly An assembly is provided that enables the operation of all hydraulic sidebooms to be achieved while simultaneously inherently avoiding commonly recurring problems attributable to inadvertent contact between the hook block and the upper block or to an impen... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5992655 | Caterpillar sideboom replacement assembly A replacement assembly is provided for retrofitting old, discontinued, mechanically-operated, low-drive, Caterpillar sidebooms with a hydraulically-operated fail-safe sideboom system. Conversion of discontinued, mechanically-operated, low-drive, Caterpill... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5392936 | Rubber track pipelayer boom A pipelayer machine including a tractor with rubber mounted tracks and a boom supported by the tractor for lifting and lowering the pipe to be laid. The boom is pivoted on one side of the tractor, and the boom line winch is supported on the other side. Th... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5332110 | Tractor mounted hydraulic pipelayer with side boom A tractor having a pair of endless, segmented, high drive tracks includes a side boom and a side-mounted counterweight. Boom angle is controlled by a boom winch with a load winch provided for lifting a load. Both winches are hydraulically driven and provi... | 07/26/1994 |
| 4966290 | Vehicle for manipulating pipe A vehicle for manipulating large diameter pipe includes a vehicle frame assembly which supports an auxiliary pipelayer frame. The pipelayer frame supports various components for manipulating the pipe, including a boom arm and a fluid cylinder for raising ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4946051 | Two-boom crawler crane A crawler crane made up of a crane frame and body on tracks, a telescoping boom projecting from the body, a fixed-length A-frame boom with rotatable arms, a mechanism for lifting the telescoping boom and a device for extending the telescoping boom.... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4921394 | Load handling device A load handling device for transferring ISO flat racks, containers or the like, to and from a support comprising two spaced lifting arms (11) pivotally connected adjacent their lower ends (at 9) to said support (13) and hydraulic rams (40,41) for rocking ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4873818 | Laterally adjustable mower A mower has a system of levers carrying the cutting head to project it laterally of the tractor on which it is mounted, the actual mounting for the levers being adjustable along the length of a beam extending across the tractor while the tractor is in mot... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4834249 | Oscillation suppressor for self-leveling boom In a vehicle provided with a boom assembly that extends laterally therefrom during use, a self-leveling mount for said assembly employs a swinging linkage having dampening device incorporated into the pivotal connections of the linkage to suppress side-to... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4666049 | Sideboom excavator with lifting means An articulated arm-type excavator machine has a hydraulically actuated main boom and a side boom which is detachably mounted at its proximal end to the side of the tractor of the machine, and at its distal end to a trolley arrangement on the underside of ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4601633 | Hoist A hoist that includes a winding drum for a load-lift cable mechanism. The um has two drum sections of slightly different diameter; end portions of the cable are wound in different directions on the drum sections, so that one cable section winds onto a dru... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4226331 | Hydraulically actuated hoist for tractors having a conventional three point hitch A hydraulically actuated hoist adapted for mounting on a farm tractor, the hoist including a base of generally inverted T-shaped configuration having a horizontally extending portion and a vertically extending portion, a telescopic boom having one end por... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4219122 | Vehicle-mounted crane assembly A vehicle-mounted crane assembly has an elongate bolster member extending transversely of the vehicle. An elongate extension member is hingedly mounted at one end of the bolster member for swinging movement from an operative horizontal position to an inop... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4172688 | Device for anti-rolling signalling for cable laying tractors A signalling device operatively coupled between the side arm or lifting boom of a pipe layer and the frame thereof in a predetermined fixed position such that movement of the signalling device relative to the fixed position, which occurs in response to th... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4166544 | Pipe-laying machine for oil pipelines, conduits and the like A pair of self-propelled vehicles joined by an intermediate bridge having a rigid lifting arm hinged at one end to the intermediate bridge and having a device for gripping and lifting the pipes carried by the free end of the rigid arm such that the rigid ... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4132317 | Pipe laying crane This invention relates to load-lifting machinery and can find utility when applied to pipe laying cranes made use of in constructing large-diameter pipings. The pipe laying crane of the invention comprises the undercarriage carrying the framework with the... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4108317 | Continuous laying of pipes of large diameter A method of and apparatus for the continuous laying of pipe utilizing a plurality of counterbalanced pipe-laying vehicles wherein each pipe-laying vehicle has a movable-arm lifting crane for maneuvering pipe and a movable-arm balancing crane to effect cou... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4042116 | Track laying tractor with movable boom which can be tilted laterally A track laying tractor comprising a tractor body having a framework supported laterally by a pair of track units, a crane placed upon one of the sides of the tractor body and having a movable boom which can be tilted laterally and pivoted at the base on a... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4020952 | Articulated stand apparatus for laying and recovering pipeline An articulated stand apparatus for laying or recovering pipeline in or from a trench dug in the ground wherein the apparatus is hinged to the side of a tracked means or side boom and includes lifting tackle with a hook. The apparatus includes two rigid frames.... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4019642 | Loading device Loading device arranged on a vehicle in order to carry out a side-wise transfer of a load onto or away from said vehicle, said device comprising two lifting means spaced from each other and movable substantially in parallel planes, each lifting means havi... | 04/26/1977 |
| 3990583 | Device for controlling the boom elevation of a side crane A device for elevating the boom of a side crane has a double acting valve provided in a hydraulic circuit so as to permit natural lowering of the boom of the side crane under its own weight as well as forcible raising and lowering hydraulically, and also ... | 11/09/1976 |
