Feeding means for curb laying machine

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR FORMING RAISED STRIPS OF PAVING MATERIAL OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM DENSITY ON A SURFACE, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING (A) AN ELONGATE FRAME, (B) AN OPEN BOTTOM HOPPER MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME INTO WHICH PAVING MATERIAL IS ADAPTED TO BE PLACED, (C) A HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED FEED TUBE CARRIED BY SAID FRAME AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF, THE FORWARD END PORTION OF SAID TUBE BEING DISPOSED BELOW THE HOPPER AND COMMUNICATING THEREWITH AND THE REAR END OF SAID TUBE BEING OPEN, (D) AN ELONGATE MOLD MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME REARWARDLY OF SAID HOPPER AND HAVING TOP AND SIDE WALLS DEFINING A CONFINED SPACE OPEN AT THE BOTTOM AND REAR END THEREOF AND OF A CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATION CORRESPONDING TO THE DESIRED CONFIGURATION OF THE RAISED STRIPS OF PAVING MATERIAL AND A CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA MATERIALLY GREATER THAN THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF SAID TUBE, SAID MOLD COMMUNICATING WITH THE OPEN REAR END OF SAID TUBE BETWEEN THE TOP WALL AND OPEN BOTTOM THEREOF, (E) FEED MEANS DISPOSED IN SAID TUBE FOR FEEDING PAVING MATERIAL FROM SAID HOPPER INTO SAID MOLD UNDER PRESSURE, AND (F) DISTRIBUTING AND COMPACTING AUGER MEANS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CONFINED SPACE IN SAID MOLD AND LATERALLY OFFSET FROM THE OPEN REAR END OF SAID TUBE AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE MOLD FOR A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE LENGTH OF THE MOLD FOR RECEIVING PAVING MATERIAL FED INTO SAID MOLD BY SAID FEED MEANS AND COOPERATING WITH SAID FEED MEANS TO DISTRIBUTE THE PAVING MATERIAL THROUGHOUT THE CONFINED SPACE WITHIN SAID MOLD AND TO COMPACT THE PAVING MATERIAL IN SAID MOLD TO SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM DENSITY.