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Show ! ROAD I BUILDING I MACHINE FOR ROAD BUILDING Useful for Applying Hot Bituminous Hi Binder Under Pressure, Filling Hil Spaces Between Stone. y A recent addition to rond building H . ciiutpmont Is a guBollna driven ma ' clilno used for applying tlio hot bltum- H Iiioiih binder under pressure ho that It B will penotrato and (111 tlio spaces bo- H Lwoun the tttones, snyn Popular Mo- H oliuulcB. After tlio first courso of H stono Is laid this machine Is run over M the roads, dlBclmrglng tlio bituminous H binder through n series of vortical H plpea at the forward end. As oon as H (ho binder has hardened, a second H course of Htono la laid and rolled, tlio H- rolling forcing tlio two courses Into H Olio compact layer. Tlio binder Is then H applied a second time, and the proc- H Road Building Machine. B cas Is repeated until tlio road is com- H, ploted. This process makes it pobsI- B bio to build a compact road with no Ht openings Into which water can peno- K tra'.o. Tlio bltumkiaua binder is car K ricd In I ho largo tank, which has a H) caracity of 750 gallons. It is heated H by steam coils in tlio tank, the steam H, being supplied by a flash boiler which Hi Is flrcd by fuel oil. Steam supplied by H, tills boiler Is nlso used for running an H; air compressor by which tlio blndor Is H forced Into tlio spaces between tlio Hi |