Self-propelled multi-purpose percussion unit

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE HAVING A FLUID PRESSURE SYSTEM AND UPSTANDING BRACKETS FIXEDLY PAIRED ON AND SPACED APART TRANSVERSELY OF ONE END OF SAID VEHICLE, A RIGID, ELONGATED FRAME INCLUDING A PAIR OF SPACEDLY-PARALLEL LONGITUDINAL TRACKS, COMPLEMENTARY HINGE COMPONETS ON SAID FRAME AND BRACKETS COACTING TO SUPPORT SAID FRAME WITH THE TRACKS HORIZONTAL LATERALLY OF AND OUTWARDLY FORM THE VEHICLE TO SWING ON A HORIZONTAL AXIS TRANSVERSE ON THE VEHICLE, A HYDRAULIC RAM SERVED BY SAID SYSTEM CONNECTED BENEATH AND PERPENDICULAR TO SAID AXIS BETWEEN SAID FRAME AND VEHICLE SELECTIVELY ACTUABLE TO VARY AND DETERMINED ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT OF THE FRAME ABOUT SAID AXIS THROUGH A VERTICAL ARC OUTWARDLY AND UPWARDLY RELATIVE TO THE VEHICLE RANGING BETWEEN SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL AND SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL DISPOSITIONS OF THE FRAME, A FLAT, RIGID PLATE SLIDABLY AND RETENTIVELY ENGAGED AT OPPOSITE MARGINS WITH SAID TRACKS OVER AND PARALLEL TO THE FACE OF SAID FRAME REMOTE FROM THE VEHICLE AS A TRAVELER SHIFTABLE ON THE FRAME LATERALLY OF THE VEHICLE, SAID PLATE BEING FORMED WITH A TUBULAR BARREL AXIALLY PERPENDICULAR THERETO IN EXTENSION THEREFROM BETWEEN THE TRACKS, A HYDRAULIC MOTOR SERVED BY SAID SYSTEM SECURED TO AND BETWEEN THE TRACKS OF SAID FRAME, FLEXIBLE DRIVE MEANS INTERLINKING SAID MOTOR AND THE BARREL OF SAID PLATE FOR TRANSLATION OF THE LATTER ALONG THE TRACKS IN RELFECTION OF MOTOR ACTUATION, A HAMMER TOWER HAVING ELONGATED TRACKS IN PARALLEL SPACED RELATIONSHIP AND A YOKE FIXEDLY TRANSVERSELY SPANNING SAID TRACKS, A TRUNNION CENTRALLY OF AND AXIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE SIDE OF SAID YOKE REMOTE FROM THE TOWER TRACKS ENGAGED AND REVOLVABLY RETAINED IN THE BARREL OF THE TRAVELER PLATE, WHEREBY TO SUPPORT SAID TOWER ON, PARALLEL TO, AND FOR TRANSLATION WITH THE PLATE WITH PROVISION FOR OSCILLATION OF THE TOWER ABOUT AN AXIS PERPENDICULAR TO THE PLATE, A HYDRAULIC RAM SERVED BY SAID SYSTEM OPERATIVELY INTERLINKING SAID YOKE AND PLATE AND SELECTIVELY ACTUABLE TO VARY AND DETERMINE ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT OF THE TOWER ABOUT ITS PIVOTAL SUPPORT AXIS, A HAMMER RECIPROCABLE IN SAID TOWER, AND A HYDRAULIC RAM FIXEDLY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID YOKE IN CONNECTION TO SAID HAMMER SELECTIVELY ACTUABLE TO REGULATE RECIPROCATORY TRAVEL OF THE LATTER.