A base frame is provided defining two pairs of opposite marginal portions with the pairs of marginal portions spaced horizontally apart in vertical planes intersecting each other and the marginal portions of each pair spaced on opposite sides of the point of intersection of the planes. A first pair of omnidirectional support structures are mounted from a first pair of the marginal portions and a second pair of reversely and variably drivable support structures are steerably mounted from the seco...

A mobile conveyor for backfilling trenches, ditches, and the like, in which pipes, wires, and other similar objects are buried, comprises a continuously moving conveyor belt assembly to transport excavated dirt from a digging or deposit point of the trench to a filling point thereof. A separate mobile transport unit or vehicle is provided to intermittently move the conveyor belt assembly along the trench, and laterally position the discharge end of the conveyor belt over the trench filling point...

A portable skid mounted fully equipped topping plant for the distillation of gasoline and diesel fuel from crude oil feed, equipped with its own power supply, capable of producing its own electricity and power requirements, utilizing fuel processed from the crude feed, and designed for automatic operation and equipped with an automatic shut-down system.

A mobile structure is provided which comprises flexible joint assemblies with increased flexibility in a vertical direction and increased rigidity in the horizontal direction to facilitate towing over uneven terrain and further comprising free wheeling dish-like castor assemblies supporting the structure.

A mobile self-propelled chair includes a frame having at its top a pivotally mounted passenger seat and captively mounting for rotation about various possible axes a relatively large sphere, which supports the principal weight of the chair and user. Auxiliary support is provided by casters surrounding the sphere. The frame has a battery and one or more drive motors for producing rotation of the sphere by drive roller engagement of the sphere surface. Posturally-effected movement of the seat actu...

A mobile tower to be towed from one location of use to another by a vehicle having a rear trailer hitch. The tower has a wheeled base frame mounting a collapsible tower structure and a pivoted hitch tongue which is operatively connected to the tower structure for extension of the tongue into coupling engagement with the vehicle hitch upon lowering of the tower structure to a collapsed towing position and retraction of the tongue from coupling engagement with the hitch upon raising of the tower s...

For on-site, continuous, bulk water purification, a dual-monitored, two-pass system employs two successive banks of mixed-bed, strong-based resin cylinders. Raw water first flows down through a bank of primary cylinders in parallel. The outlets of the primary cylinders are connected in parallel via an overhead carry-over pipe to a smaller bank of polisher cylinders whose outlets are connected in parallel via a final filter to a discharge outlet. Probes monitoring the concentration of impurities ...

A rough terrain mobile crane in which the operator's control cab is mounted on a rotatable superstructure has sets of controls for vehicular drive, steering, lifting and boom motions grouped together in the control cab which is carried on a bearing provided on the superstructure together with the boom and pivotally connected hydraulic ram for raising and lowering it and the control cab is alternatively extended to a forward position at the front of the chassis and which may be beside an upstandi...

A device for storing and delivering rotational energy for rotation of a mobile is used in combination with a source of rotational energy and a control device adapted for intermittent actuation of the energy source for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals. The energy storage device has at least one multi-filament non-braided cords connected between first and second cap members. The first cap member is detachably connected to the energy source and the second cap member is detachably c...

A mobile scaffold has a carriage for traversing longitudinally a first track and a second track. The carriage is suspended from the first track. Lateral support for one side of the carriage is provided by the second track, and this track is spaced vertically from the first track. A parallel arm type crane has one end mounted to the carriage on a side that is opposite from the side adjacent the second track. Attached to the end of the crane extended outwardly from the carriage is an operator's pl...