Traffic stripe lay-out device
OwnerPaul Andersoninventor
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Abstract
A stripe lay-out device configured to be mounted on and operate from a motor vehicle includes a telescopically extendable tube assembly, which can be controllably displaced so as to position one or more paint guns at desired locations relative to a road or pavement surfaces for paint pre-marking such surfaces, the extendable tube assembly being swingable between horizontal working and vertical travel and parked non-working dispositions in response to operator command.
Claims18
A device mountable to a vehicle for paint line stripe lay-out of road traffic surfaces, said vehicle having a front end, a rear end, and right and left sides, said device comprising:
- an elongated boom assembly, said boom assembly including at least one boom end section length pivot connected to a boom assembly remainder length or pivoting movement of said one end section between an upright non-working and travel disposition and a horizontally disposed operating disposition;
- means for mounting said boom assembly on one of said vehicle front end and said rear end disposed transverse to a vehicle long axis and such that said one end section when in operating disposition can locate laterally of one of said vehicle right side and said left side;
- actuator means for pivoting said end section between said upright and said horizontal dispositions;
- nozzle means carried at least on a distal tip end of said one end section;
- a source of paint carried on said vehicle;
- a source of flush fluid carried on said vehicle;
- a source pressurized air carried on said vehicle;
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- means for selectively effecting and controlling one of a flow of paint and a flush fluid flow from respective ones of said paint source and said flush fluid source with pressurized air from said pressurized air source to said nozzle means.
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