Patent classifications
E01C19/1031
MOBILE ASPHALT PLANT
A mobile asphalt plant for producing asphalt includes a heating unit, a container unit, a plurality of augers, and an injector. The heating unit includes one or more heaters to generate heated gas, a tank to hold heat transfer oil, and one or more first plenum tubes extending from the heaters to within the tank. The first plenum tubes transport the heated gas to the tank to heat the heat transfer oil. The container unit includes a hopper to receive the aggregate material and one or more second plenum tubes extending from the one or more first plenum tubes and extending within the hopper. The second plenum tubes transport the heated gas from the first plenum tubes to heat the aggregate material. The augers are arranged as a series of augers, with a first one of the augers receiving the aggregate material from the hopper. Each of the augers conveys the aggregate material to a next one of the augers. Each of the augers heats the aggregate material using the heat transfer oil from the tank. The injector is connected to one of the augers and injects asphalt oil into the aggregate material to produce asphalt.