Patent ID: 9169618
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: E02F,F16L

Abstract:
1. A backfill device for back filling a trench with backfill fines of a desired size from a pile of backfill spoil adjacent to the trench, the backfill device comprising: a lateral earth moving device having an open front portion, and a rotating member for moving backfill spoil toward a first end of the lateral earth moving apparatus; a sifting device located at the first end of the dirt moving apparatus, the sifting device having a rotatable drum that is open on a first side to receive backfill spoil from the lateral dirt moving apparatus, the drum being open at a second side opposite from the first side, the drum having a plurality of sifting openings between the first and second ends of the rotating drum; a sifting device motor operably connected to the drum to cause rotation of the drum; whereby pieces of backfill spoil smaller than the sifting openings will fall through the sifting openings into the trench directly below the sifting device and the pieces of backfill spoil larger than the sifting openings will be moved out of the second side of the sifting device by dirt entering the sifting portion through the first side.