10152 results about "Shovel" patented technology

A low odor grip is disclosed for a handle of a hand-held implement such as a sports implement or a manual or electric tool which is essentially free of disagreeable odors, which can be installed and quickly shrunk into a tight vapor resistant grip within a matter of a few minutes rather than requiring extended periods of time, and can be installed without the need for any application of heat or use of special tools, equipment or materials. The present device is therefore easy to install, merely sliding over the handle while in dilated state and then allowed to shrink and set by evaporation of the solvent, and thus can be satisfactorily installed in both fabrication facilities and in the field either as an original or replacement grip. The invention also includes an implement fitted with such grip. Representative implements include sports implements such as golf clubs, tennis racquets, weight bars and fishing poles, as well as tools such as hammers, drills, pliers, shovels, axes, and the like. The grip is preferable made of a swellable elastomeric material, preferably a natural or synthetic rubber. Suitable rubbers include EPDM rubber, neoprene or chlorosulfonate polyethylene (Hypalon(TM)) rubber, of which EPDM rubber is preferred.

A zone tillage tool comprises a tool frame connected by a parallel lift linkage to a tool bar. A fall tillage coulter or dual spring tillage coulters can be carried on the tool frame in advance of a pair of containment coulters. The fall tillage coulter tills soil in a zone that is approximately 7 to 9 inches deep while the spring tillage coulters till 2 to 3 inches deep. The fall tillage coulter includes a plurality of shovel bits located around the circumference thereof at a forward rake angle. The tip of each shovel bit has a generally vertical entry position into the ground due to the forward rake angle. As the fall tillage coulter rotates, the shovel bits rotate around and exit the soil in a generally horizontal position, thereby lifting and loosening the soil without compacting the soil through a series of rearwardly and upwardly directed soil scooping actions.

The present invention discloses various features and combinations thereof for use with articles of footwear such as boots. The boots are especially adapted for use on construction projects, and provide protection, support and comfort to the wearer. Numerous outsole configurations and styles are provided, which provide superior traction and a low center of gravity for enhanced balance. Different layers of materials provide puncture resistance, abrasion resistance, thermal insulation, waterproofing and other benefits. Protective and / or insulative plates may be utilized in the footwear for puncture protection or thermal insulation, for example. Shovel guards protect the wearer when using a tool, and toe tools permit the wearer to employ the boot as a tool of its own. Structural support cages chimney structures are also utilized for support and comfort.

A universal tool holder for carrying a tool or other article, for example, a cordless drill, nail gun, hammer or shovel is provided comprising a stretchable cord that is formed into a looped end and adapted to be wrapped about the handle of a tool in such a manner that it tightly engages the tool, and a second end having a retainable object, such as a ball, that is configured to be safely and securely held within a retaining receiver. The retaining receiver is in the form of a socket-type receiver configured to correspond to the geometrical shape of the retainable object such it can removably secure the retainable object. The socket-shaped retaining receiver can be incorporated into a variety of articles usefull in carrying and storing tools, including a belt clip, a wall mounting implement or a ladder mounting implement. By integrating the retaining receiver into such a variety of articles, any tool carried by the universal tool holder can be removably secured to the retaining receiver, thereby enabling a user to suspend the tool from a belt clip, ladder or wall.

The invention discloses a seedling transplanting system based on machine vision and consists of components of seedling transportation, machine vision identification, control and transplanting. A conveyor belt of the seedling transportation component can convey seedling plates to the transplanting positions and automatically convey after the completion of the transplanting; color images obtained from the machine vision system are used for detecting a plurality of appearance growth indicators such as the size, the number of leaves of the seedlings so as to comprehensively judge whether the seedlings are suitable for transplanting and meanwhile determine the location information of the seedlings to be transferred to the control system by a computer through a serial communication interface RS-232; then the PLC of the control system sends commands to an end effector to realize automatic transplantation of the seedlings through the control system; the end effector adopts shovel-shaped fingers driven by a linear cylinder and meets the seedling transplanting demand for seedling plates with different sizes through regulating the angle of fingers. The invention utilizes the vision system to obtain the growth and location information of the seedlings and realizes the transplantation through the control of the computer and the PLC.

The invention discloses an unmanned roadway driving and anchoring all-in-one machine. The unmanned roadway driving and anchoring all-in-one machine comprises a driving system, a conveying system, a temporary support system, an anchoring system, a driving all-in-one machine water system, a sensing system and an electrical control system. A feed moving roller at the connection portion between a shovel of the driving system and the front end of the conveying system can prevent feed clogging at the shovel and the front end of a scraper conveyor. The temporary support system is uniform in supporting, can move relative to the driving and anchoring all-in-one machine to achieve no-deferring synchronization of driving, supporting and anchoring and can be adapted to the round, uprightly oval, approximately oval or rectangular cross section of a roadway to be applicable to driving and supporting operations of roadways of a variety of ground pressure and directions. The sensing system and the electrical control system of the driving and anchoring all-in-one machine can effectively collect and process information such as, light, distance, humidity and gas and the electrical control system performs automatic or remote manual analysis so as to achieve unattended operations in the working process and greatly improve the safety factor of the operations.

A manually-operable shovel for efficiently moving material, including a shovel blade, a shovel handle, a joint for attaching the shovel blade to the shovel handle, and an articulation device cooperating with the joint for permitting the operator to position the blade to a predetermined fixed angle in relation to the direction of blade movement for moving the material in a predetermined desired relation to the direction of blade movement. The articulation device is moveable between an unlocked position wherein the angle of the blade in relation to the direction of blade movement is variable and a locked position wherein the angle of the blade is locked into a fixed angle in relation to the direction of blade movement. The articulation device automatically assumes the locked position during a forward, material engaging movement of the shovel and automatically assumes the unlocked position during a rearward material disengaging, movement of the shovel.

Outdoor and indoor debris receptacles that can be formed from molded plastic. The receptacles include an open upper end with a D-shaped configuration and a closed bottom end with a substantially circular bottom configuration. The receptacles can have a generally cylindrical shape and a flat side wall having a triangular tubular shape for allowing the receptacle to be laid on its side so that rakes and brooms can move debris fully into the D-shaped opening with ease. At least one handle located on the apex of the D-shaped opening allows the container to be easily lifted to a vertical standing position, and curved interior wall surfaces allow debris to easily slide toward the bottom of the container. Embodiments allow for different sizes of container, and extras such as lids, wheels and supports for tools. such as but not limited to rakes, hoes, and shovels to be carried and stored by the receptacles.

The invention relates to coal mining equipment and specially, relates to a high-efficiency blocking coal shovel. The high-efficiency blocking coal shovel comprises a shovel body. The shovel body comprises a frame. The high-efficiency blocking coal shovel also comprises an impulsion shovel mechanism. The impulsion shovel mechanism comprises a shovel head and an impulsion device. The shovel head comprises shovel teeth and a fixing part. The shovel teeth are installed on the fixing part. A rear part of the fixing part is provided with an impulsion stroke guiding mechanism. The impulsion stroke guiding mechanism is sildingly connected to a guiding sleeve. The guiding sleeve is arranged on the impulsion device and / or the frame. The impulsion device impacts the impulsion stroke guiding mechanism. Only through one impulsion process, the shovel head can complete both coal falling and surface cleaning. The impulsion shovel mechanism is arranged on the shovel body. The shovel body drives the whole high-efficiency blocking coal shovel to walk. Coal mined by the high-efficiency blocking coal shovel is not broken fully. The high-efficiency blocking coal shovel has a high blocking rate and low power consumption, produces a small quantity of coal dust, provides a good work environment, realizes continuous coal mining, synchronously completes both coal falling and surface cleaning, and saves a mass of energy.

A combined shovel and clearing tool with a shovel and a clearing tool member for being coupled to the shovel. The clearing tool member can be selectively retained in a usage disposition, such as relative to a leading edge of a shovel blade, and in a storage disposition, such as relative to a trailing edge of the shovel blade or relative to a handle of the shovel. The clearing tool member can be retained by, for example, a clip arrangement, an elastic tether, or a rigid arm. Bristles can project from an obverse side of the shovel blade. The handle and the blade can be reconfigurable by, for example, a relative pivoting or a selective coupling of the handle with multiple receiving portions on the blade. A universal clearing tool can be coupled to a standard shovel.

A caddy for supporting and transporting cleaning and / or garden supplies or the like on the rim of a waste container. The caddy comprises a tray made of plastic or similar rigid material that attaches and extends laterally from the outer rim of a waste container. Formed on opposite sides of the tray is a concaved lip and a straight lip. Formed on the tray is a large, centrally aligned and downward extending cavity with concave and straight side walls that extend parallel to the concave and straight side walls on the tray. Slots are created between the lip and side walls of the cavity that are sufficiently wide to receive the curved or straight upper edges of a waste container. Formed around the cavity is a plurality of smaller holes or openings designed to hold such items as a cellular phone, a soda can, pliers, shears, small shovel, etc. At least two adjustable legs are attached to the bottom surface of the cavity that extend laterally in opposite directions to press against the outer surface of the waste container. During use, the caddy is placed on the outside edge of the waste container so that the large opening of the waste container is not blocked.

The invention provides an environment-friendly remediation vehicle with the soil turning function for municipal garden soil, and belongs to the technical field of soil remediation devices. The environment-friendly remediation vehicle comprises a vehicle body, wheels and a first motor and is characterized in that a cab is arranged at the upper part of the vehicle body. According to the environment-friendly remediation vehicle, a spiral soil loosening device is arranged so that the soil can be subjected to soil loosening treatment, the loosened soil enters the interior of the vehicle body through a soil collecting shovel along with the forward movement of the vehicle body and is conveyed to the interior of a soil crushing device through a conveying device, and the soil is subjected to secondary crushing and dehydration treatment; the soil is conveyed into a spiral mixing device through a slope type soil collecting and conveying device and is fully mixed with remediation liquid, in addition, spraying faucets arranged below a first slope type conveying plate in the slope type soil collecting and conveying device are arranged so that the remediation liquid can be uniformly sprayed intothe flowing soil, and the mixing effect can be improved; and along with the forward movement of the vehicle body, through the arrangement of a soil turning device, the soil in the deep layer is turnedto the ground surface so that the remediation depth of the soil remediation vehicle can be increased.

During transfer of a material by a hydraulic excavator, load computing means periodically computes the weight of the material in a bucket of the excavator. Average value computing means computes an average value of weights of the material including a currently computed weight and a predetermined number of weights computed prior to the currently computed weight (M6), and standard deviation computing means computes, based on the average value, a standard deviation of the weights of the material (M7). True load value determining means selects a minimum standard deviation from among the standard deviations computed by the standard deviation computing means from the start of the transfer of the material to a different location until the end of the transfer of same, and judges the average value based on which the minimum standard deviation was computed, to be a true value of the weight of the material (M10, M11).

The invention relates to a tray, which belongs to the technical field of stacking and packaging materials. The tray comprises a rectangular or square tray body which is obtained by blowing and is formed in a manner that first and second tray sections with the same structures are connected with each other. The tray is characterized in that: first carrying bosses which are extended to the other side from one side of the first tray section and are protruded on the surface of the first tray section are formed at intervals on the first tray section; and a first shovel arm slot is formed between the adjacent first carrying bosses; second carrying bosses which are extended to the other side from one side of the second tray section and are protruded on the surface of the second tray section are formed at intervals on the second tray section; and a second shovel arm slot is formed between the adjacent second carrying bosses; the first and second carrying bosses are corresponding to each other; and the first and second shovel arm slots are corresponding to each other. The advantages are that: flexible selection requirement on insertion of the shovel arm of the forklift truck into the first shovel arm slot or the second shovel arm slot can be satisfied, the labor intensity of workers in loading and unloading can be reduced and the transfer efficiency of goods can be improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural machinery, in particular to an adjusting device used for a sowing depth automatic control system. A small frame is connected with a large frame through a four-bar linkage; a small land wheel is articulated on a wheel axle of a large land wheel and can freely float following the actual land surface relative to the small frame; a detection unit real-timely measures the distance of the small frame relative to the ground and the distance of a furrow opener relative to the small frame; two detected feedback signals are sent to a control part; the control part transfers the information to a hydraulic system after processing, controls a proportional reversing valve to operate and controls the reversion of an output shaft of a hydraulic motor; and an actuating mechanism drives a gear to rotate under the action of the output shaft of the hydraulic motor to realize the up-and-down movement of a slide block at the rear side of a shovel handle of the furrow opener along a guide rail and real-timely control and adjust the sowing depth. The device can realize real-time control and adjustment on the furrow opening depth, has high detection precision and high degree of automation, can improve the germination rate, promotes the crop growth and increases the crop yield.

An automatic mud-flat shellfish collecting machine comprises a helical shaft driving motor, a bidirectional helical shaft, a helical shaft support, a turbine disc driving motor, a linear vibration screen, a self-locking linear turbine push rod, a shellfish collecting groove, a conveying belt, a conveying belt roller shaft assembly, a secondary screening hopper, a cleaning pipeline, a power motor support, a water storage groove, a power motor, a front wheel, a linear vibration screen driving motor, an eccentric shaft, a conveying belt driving motor, a shellfish guide plate, a self-sucking type water pump, a rear wheel, a transmission chain assembly, a rear transmission shaft, a front transmission shaft, a shellfish digging shovel, a frame, a bearing and a turbine disc. The rear transmission shaft and the front transmission shaft are mounted on the lower portion of the frame, the rear wheel and the front wheel are mounted on the rear transmission shaft and the front transmission shaft, the rear transmission shaft is connected with the power motor by the transmission chain assembly, a power motor support is arranged outside the power motor, one end of the cleaning pipeline penetrates the power motor support to be connected with a water storage groove, and the other end of the cleaning pipeline is connected with the secondary screen hopper.

The invention provides a conducting wire deicing method and device for a high-voltage transmission line. The conducting wire deicing device comprises a conducting wire walking robot, a rotating deicing device, a power device and a control device, wherein the conducting wire walking robot is driven by a fuel generator; the rotating deicing device is arranged on the conducting wire walking robot and used for removing ice coated on the conducting wire by rotating strike force; the power device is coupled with the rotating deicing device and used for driving the rotating deicing device to rotate; and the control device is used for controlling the movement of the conducting wire walking robot and the rotation of the power device. In the conducting wire deicing device for the high-voltage transmission line, a rotating strike rod, a vibration shock hammer and an ice scraping shovel are arranged on the conducting wire walking robot and simultaneously work to effectively remove the ice coated on the conducting wire by transverse shock, axial shock and axial extrusion.

A process line comprising a combination of mobile and relocatable equipment units is provided at an oil sand mine site. The process line may comprise: a mobile shovel; a mobile bin and double roll crusher; a relocatable conveyor belt extending along the mine face; a relocatable slurry preparation assembly, such as a secondary crusher and jet pump; a pipeline; and a relocatable desanding circuit of separators. The process line conducts the following steps: mining the oil sand; crushing it to conveyable size; conveying it to a slurry preparation location; further crushing it to slurrying size and mixing it with heated water to produce a pumpable, aerated oil sand slurry; transporting and conditioning the slurry in the pipeline; desanding it to produce a product comprising bitumen and water and tailings; depositing tailings in a retention facility; and removing the product from the mine site in a pipeline.

An abrasion resistant steel excellent in bending formability and suitable for members, e.g., power shovels, which come into contact with earth and sand, and a production method thereof are provided. Specifically, the steel contains, on a percent by mass basis, 0.05% to 0.35% of C, 0.05% to 1.0% of Si, 0.1% to 2.0% of Mn, 0.1% to 1.2% of Ti, 0.1% or less of Al, at least one element of 0.1% to 1.0%of Cu, 0.1% to 2.0% of Ni, 0.1% to 1.0% of Cr, 0.05% to 1.0% of Mo, 0.05% to 1.0% of W, and 0.0003% to 0.0030% of B, if necessary at least one element of 0.005% to 1.0% of Nb and 0.005% to 1.0% of V,and the remainder including Fe and incidental impurities, where DI* represented by the following formula is less than 60. DI * = 33.85 0.1 C * 0.5 0.7 Si + 1 3.33 Mn + 1 0.35 Cu + 1 0.36 Ni + 1 2.16 Cr + 1 3 Mo * + 1 1.5 W * + 1 where C* = C - 1 / 4 (Ti - 48 / 14N), Mo* =; Mo (1 - 0.5 (Ti - 48 / 14N)), and W* = W (1 - 0.5 (Ti - 48 / 14N)).

The invention relates to hard rock excavation equipment, in particular to a hard rock hydraulic crushing type excavation machine. It integrates the functions of drilling, rock breaking, material collection, transportation, walking and dust removal, and can realize fast and efficient excavation of all-rock roadways above f10 and above. The roadheader includes a running part, a rear support part, a transport part, a main body part, a rock drilling part, a rock breaking part and a shoveling part. Part, the rear part of the body part is provided with a rear support part and a transport part. The invention can solve the problems of low operation efficiency, harsh working environment and the like existing in the prior art. The whole equipment can realize the efficient, safe and high-quality rapid excavation of the whole hard rock roadway, replacing the more dangerous drilling and blasting method commonly used in hard rock excavation and the comprehensive excavation method with low efficiency in hard rock excavation.

The present invention describes an earwax removal device having varying structures to provide different earwax removal capabilities. In all designs, the overall contour of the earwax-extracting member resembles the dimensions of the external auditory canal and is flexible enough to conform to it during insertion. Each engages and collects wax using the pressure of insertion and rotation effects. Embodiments include a club-like member having multiple protrusions and extractions to collect wax along its sides, and an opening in the tip that leads to a channel to collect wax; a flexible spiral member to compress when the device is inserted in an ear and thereby extract wax as it expands when the device is removed; a screw-like structure to laterally move wax and grind as it rotates; a multi-channel structure to cut and collect wax simultaneously; and a shovel-like structure to effectively shear and scrape wax from an ear canal.

The present invention relates generally to the field of positioning mechanical equipment, and particularly to the likes of mechanical excavation and electric mining shovels. In one embodiment, there is disclosed a system for calibrating the sensors that measure hoist and crowd motions for an electric mining shovel, enabling the position of a bucket to be known with greater accuracy than can be achieved using previously known approaches.

A snow removal apparatus in the form of a shovel in which a leveraged arrangement is used to lift snow gathered on the shovel blade by lateral movement of such blade while supported by a handle adjustably secured upon the blade and the shovel handle is rested upon an underlying surface while snow is being lifted and moved to a dumping area by leveraged foot movement upon a pivot arm pivoted upon the handle and attached to the blade thus avoiding strain on a shovelers arms and spine while shoveling.

The invention discloses a horizontal swing type inter-plant weeding device, which comprises a car body, wherein the car body comprises a main frame (2) and a depth wheel (3); the horizontal swing type plant weeding device also comprises a horizontal swing weeding structure, a weeding component, an inter-row weeding structure and a vision and control system which are arranged on the main frame, wherein the horizontal swing weeding structure leads the weeding component to enter an inter-plant area for weeding through horizontal swing movement; the inter-row weeding structure enters the soil to weed through a shovel with double swings; and the vision and control system identifies crops, determines a plant protection area and an inter-plant weeding area and controls the horizontal swing weeding structure and the inter-row weeding structure to weed in the inter-plant weeding area. In the invention, the requirements of the inter-plant weeding device on the crop row tracking accuracy of a towing tractor can be reduced; the dependence of the inter-plant weeding device on the high crop row tracking accuracy of a weeding robot or the towing tractor is reduced; and the width of the inter-plant weeding shovel with the double swings can be selected according to row space so as to adapt to the weeding in inter-plant areas of grown crops of different row spaces.

A pivotal gate system to be installed across the drain opening to a catch basin of a storm drain system and having a catch basin blocking gate that is adapted to rotate from a closed position extending completely across the drain opening at which to trap and prevent leaves, litter and other debris from entering the catch basin during dry periods and light rainfall to an open position removed from the drain opening at which to permit rainwater to enter the catch basin during periods of heavy rainfall. A water wheel is mounted for rotation within the catch basin. The water wheel is coupled to the catch basin blocking gate by way of a pulling cable. The water wheel rotates in response to impact forces caused by rainwater dropping downwardly on a plurality of scoops extending around the water wheel. A rotation of the water wheel generates a pulling force in the pulling cable to be applied to the catch basin blocking gate whereby to cause the blocking gate to move from the closed position to the open position.

In a hydraulic shovel positional guidance system, an optimal work position calculation unit is configured to calculate an optimal work position of a main vehicle body where a diggable range in which a target surface and an operability range overlap is largest. A display unit is configured to display a guidance picture showing the optimal work position.

Provided is a fully automatic carton molding machine. The fully automatic carton molding machine comprises a rack, a transmission belt which is arranged on the rack and extends outward, a box pressing device which is arranged above the transmission melt, a box holding device which is arranged on two sides of the box pressing device, and a molding machine head device which is arranged below the transmission belt. The fully automatic carton molding machine further comprises a programmable logic controller (PLC) controlling system for controlling the transmission belt, the box pressing device, the box holding device, and the molding machine head device. The molding machine head device comprises four molding machine heads and the molding machine heads can independently complete molding work, so that the fully automatic carton molding machine is stable at work. Lifting-dropping barrel bodies are arranged on all the molding machine heads, the lifting-dropping barrel bodies can independently lift and drop, a shovel device and a plate pressing device of the molding machine heads can rotate and tilt, and thus the fully automatic carton molding machine is flexible at work. Due to the fact that the PLC controlling system for controlling is the transmission belt, the box pressing device, and the molding machine head device, automatic production is achieved, and thus production efficiency and product pass percent are improved.

A garden implement system that includes a case for storing and transporting various garden implements needed at various times while gardening. The garden implement system includes a two-part, hingedly connected, foam-lined container; a garden trowel; a number of garden implement heads including a shovel head, a hoe head, and a rake head; and a telescoping handle having a bottom end that is securable to an attachment fitting provided on the shovel head, the hoe head, and the rake head.

The present invention refers to an ice-making machine provided with an ice formation reservoir (2), an auxiliary tank (6) and an ice storage region (5). Inner part of reservoir (2) is provided with a transport element (16), a shovel (4) with angular movement and a finger-type evaporator (3) forming ice pieces. During ice manufacturing process, shovel (4) moves periodically at low frequencies so as to attract impurity particles and water salts, leaving them far from ice piece formation regions. Through the machine of the present invention, impurity-free ice pieces are produced.