Method and apparatus for deployment of a communication line onto a surface such as a roadway or pathway
AssigneeTRAXyL, Inc.
InventorDaniel R. TURNER
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Abstract
A method for adhering a tubular body onto a surface that includes smoothing a portion of the surface to create a smoothed segment of the surface and applying a tubular body directly onto the smoothed segment of the surface after the smoothing of the portion of the surface. The surface at the smoothed segment is smoother than the remainder of the surface. The method further includes applying an uncured protectant onto the tubular body while the tubular body is on the smoothed segment of the surface and curing the uncured protectant into a cured protectant while the uncured protectant is on the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the surface. The cured protectant protectively encases and adheres the tubular body to the surface.
Claims15
A method for adhering a tubular body onto a man-made surface, the method comprising:
- smoothing a portion of the man-made surface to create a smoothed segment;
- applying the tubular body onto the smoothed segment of the man-made surface after the smoothing of the linear portion of the man-made surface;
- applying an uncured protectant onto the tubular body;
- and
- curing the uncured protectant to protectively encase the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the man-made surface, thereby adhering the tubular body on the smoothed linear segment.
A method for adhering a tubular body onto a man-made surface, the method comprising:
- smoothing a portion of the man-made surface to create a smoothed segment of the man-made surface, the smoothed segment being more smooth than the man-made surface at a remainder of the man-made surface, the remainder of the man-made surface comprising surface irregularities introduced when the man-made surface was created, and the smoothed segment being above or at a same depth as a lowest point of the surface irregularities;
- applying the tubular body onto the smoothed segment of the man-made surface after the smoothing of the portion of the man-made surface;
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- adhering the tubular body on the smoothed segment of the man-made surface.
An apparatus for adhering a communication line to a man-made surface, the apparatus comprising:
- a main body moveable in an advancing direction, the main body possessing a forward end and a rear end;
- a smoothing apparatus connected to the main body, the smoothing apparatus being configured to contact the man-made surface at a smoothing contact point to smooth a segment of the man-made surface when the apparatus moves in the advancing direction;
- a plurality of rotatable bodies that contact the man-made surface when the main body moves in the advancing direction, the remainder of the man-made surface comprising natural surface irregularities introduced when the man-made surface was formed, and the smoothing contact point of the smoothing apparatus being above or at a same depth as a lowest point of the natural surface irregularities of the remainder of the man-made surface;
- a container configured to store an uncured protectant, the container being mounted on the main body;
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- a protectant applicator connected to the container and configured to eject the uncured protectant onto the segment of the man-made surface, the protectant applicator positioned such that the ejected protectant is applied after the segment of the man-made surface has been smoothed, wherein the uncured protectant is configured to cure after the uncured protectant is applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.