Machines for forming hollow cored concrete products

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR FORMING HOLLOW CORED REINFORCED CONCRETE PRODUCTS WHICH INCLUDES AN ELONGATED PALLET, SUPPORTING FRAMEWORK, SAID FRAMEWORK ADAPTED TO SUPPORT PRODUCT REINFORCING CABLES ON SAID PALLET AROUND WHICH SAID PRODUCT IS FORMED, A PRODUCT FORMING MATERIAL HOPPER, A FEED CHAMBER COMMUNICATING WITH SAID HOPPER, A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED AND PARALLEL AUGER ASSEMBLIES EXTENDING THROUGH SAID FEED CHAMBER, SAID AUGER ASSEMBLIES HAVING A TROWELLING PORTION ON THE DISTAL ENDS THEREOF, AND A SOURCE OF POWER ON SAID FRAMEWORK FOR DRIVING SAID AUGER ASSEMBLIES WHEREBY THE FORMED PRODUCT IS RETRUDED FROM SAID MACHINE; A SHIELD ASSEMBLY FOR SAID AUGER ASSEMBLIES AND SAID REINFORCING CABLES, SAID SHIELD ASSEMBLY BEING SECURED BELOW SAID HOPPER AND EXTENDING INTO SAID FEED CHAMBER, SAID SHIELD ASSEMBLY COMPRISING IN COMBINATION A SEMI-CYLINDRICAL SHIELD PORTION FOR EACH OF SAID AUGER ASSEMBLIES, AND ENCLOSING SUBSTANTIALLY THE LOWER SEGMENT OF EACH AUGER, SAID SEMI-CYLINDRICAL SHIELD PORTION BEING IN SPACED AND PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP FROM SAID AUGER ASSEMBLY AND IN SPACED AND PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP FROM THE BASE OF SAID FEED CHAMBER, SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY SITUATED SHIELD SIDES EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM EACH SIDE EDGE OF SAID SHIELD PORTION, THE UPPER EDGES OF SAID SHIELD SIDES ADAPTED TO MOUNT SAID SHIELD ASSEMBLY IN POSITION, THE REAR VERTICAL EDGE OF EACH OF SAID SHIELD SIDES TERMINATING SPACED FROM THE REAR END OF SAID SHIELD PORTION, AND ELONGATED REINFORCING-CABLE SHIELD STRIPS SECURED TO AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM ADJACENT THE SIDES OF SAID SHIELD PORTION, SAID REINFORCING-CABLE SHIELD SHIPS BEING SPACED FROM SAID REINFORCING-CABLE.