Vehicle for patching a road pavement and a method therefor
AssigneeBunni S.R.L.
InventorFiras Bunni
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Abstract
A vehicle for patching road pavements comprising a frame, a container for holding the new paving material, a radiating plate, a rake, a paver for distributing and levelling a new paving material, a compactor and a support structure which comprises a movable part. The frame supports the support structure and the container which comprises an outlet for supplying the paver. The movable part bears the paver, the rake and the compactor and translates with respect to the frame in a first direction from a retracted position to an extracted position so that they operate on successive parts of the zone to be patched. The radiating plate is movable vertically beneath the frame and the rake is vertically movable with respect to the paver and the compactor.
Claims15
A vehicle for patching road pavements which comprise bituminous mixes which has a longitudinal direction, comprising:
- a frame;
- a container for holding a new paving material;
- a radiating plate for heating a zone to be patched which has a radiating area;
- a rake for raking the zone to be patched;
- a paver for distributing and levelling the new paving material in the zone to be patched;
- a compactor for compacting the zone to be patched and the new paving material;
- a support structure which comprises a movable part;
- wherein:
- the frame supports the container and the support structure;
- the container comprises an outlet for feeding the paver with the new paving material;
- the movable part bears the paver, the rake and the compactor;
- the movable part translates with respect to the frame according to a first direction from a retracted position to an extracted position in which the volume of the vehicle is greater;
- the movable part is configured to translate so that the rake operates in succession on a plurality of parts of the zone to be patched, the paver operates in succession on a plurality of parts of the zone to be patched and the compactor operates in succession on a plurality of parts of the zone to be patched;
- the frame supports the radiating plate which is movable vertically beneath the frame from a non-active position near to the frame to an active position away from the frame;
- the rake is vertically movable with respect to the paver and the compactor.
A method for patching road pavements which comprise bituminous mixes comprising steps of:
- providing a vehicle for patching road pavements according to any one of claims from 1 to 6;
- providing a new paving material;
- loading the container with the new paving material;
- activating the radiating plate into the active position to heat a zone to be patched so that it becomes rakeable;
- loading the paver with the new paving material from the container;
- activating the rake by translating the movable part in the first direction to level successive parts of the zone to be patched;
- activating the paver by translating the movable part in the first direction in order to distribute and to level the new paving material in successive parts of the zone to be patched;
- activating the compactor by translating the movable part in the first direction to compact successive parts of the zone to be patched.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.