An apparatus for controlling a material feed system of a paver is disclosed. The material feed system includes a feeder conveyor and a spreader auger. The apparatus includes a sensor that monitors the amount of material at the edge of the screed and responsively produces an actual material height signal. A rotary switch produces a desired material height signal indicative of a desired amount of material at the edge of the screed. A controller receives the actual and desired material height signa...

In one aspect of the present invention, a control system for a floating screed assembly for an asphalt paving machine is disclosed. The screed assembly includes a main screed and extension screed unit. An electrohydraulic device extends and retracts, as well as, raises and lowers the extension screed unit relative to the main screed unit. The electrohydraulic device additionally pivots the extension screed unit relative to the main screed unit about a horizontal axis. Position sensors produce po...

A paver has a chassis and a trailing floating screed which is articulated on the chassis by a pair of tension arms. The setting angle of the screed relative to the ground is capable of being adjusted via actuating cylinders. The screed includes at least one tamper bar that is movable in upward and downward directions by a drive and having a variable number of strokes. Further, the screed has a bottom-side smoothing plate. At least one sensor configured for measuring the setting angle is provided...

At least two paving screeds B1, B2 which are distant in operation running direction R are supported at a chassis 1 of a paver F. The paver F is designed for simultaneously casting several paving material layers L1, L2 on top of each other on a plane P. Each paving screed B1, B2 is provided with a compaction assembly. One paving screed B1 for casting a lower layer L1 is provided at a front end section of the chassis 1 and has the compaction assembly 13, 14 for generating a degree of compaction in...

A road paver-finisher having a tractor unit and a screed unit mounted for vertical movement on and relative to the tractor unit. The tractor unit has a hopper for road material, and conveyors unload the road material from the hopper in front of the screed to be leveled by the screed. Crawler belts mounted on the tractor unit are disposed forwardly of the screed for advancing the tractor unit, and ground engaging steering wheels are mounted on the tractor unit forwardly of the crawler belts. Powe...

An apparatus for automatically slip forming concrete having a movable frame for moving in a first direction over concrete to be formed into a desired shape. The movable frame has a longitudinal centerline generally aligned with or parallel to the first direction. A crown forming structure is attached to the frame for selectively producing a desired crown on the concrete being so formed. The crown forming structure includes a left segment pivotally attached on an inner portion thereof, along an a...

A mobile grade reference device includes first means for sensing the vertical distance between successive points along a predetermined path on the subgrade and a grade reference point on such grade reference device. Second means are provided for continuously generating and storing first intelligence representative of the successive vertical distances sensed by such first means as the grade reference device travels over the subgrade. Third means on the paver senses the vertical distance between s...

An asphalt paver includes a microprocessor controlled integrated control system to control both the operation of a tractor unit of the paver and the positioning of the screed during a paving operation. A paver operator may operate the paver and monitor the screed position with respect to a grade reference. The correction of grade or transverse slope errors is accomplished by monitoring the linear advance of the paver and then measuring a any deviation of the screed with respect to a grade refere...

A protected-membrane roof paving system and method of constructing same. Rectangular ballast blocks are laid in rows and interlocked by tongue and groove edge faces. The adjacent blocks in each row form labyrinthine channels between their edge faces for drainage and equalization of air pressure above and below the blocks.

An asphalt paver includes a microprocessor controlled integrated control system to control both the operation of a tractor unit of the paver and the positioning of the screed during a paving operation. A paver operator may operate the paver and monitor the screed position with respect to a grade reference. The correction of grade or transverse slope errors is accomplished by monitoring the linear advance of the paver and then measuring a any deviation of the screed with respect to a grade refere...