Method and Apparatus for Deployment of a Communication Line Onto a Surface Such as a Roadway or Pathway
AssigneeTRAXyL, Inc.
InventorDaniel Ryan 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
-15. (canceled)
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, the smoothed segment possessing relatively fewer surface irregularities than a remainder of the man-made surface;
- a plurality of rotatable bodies that contact the man-made surface when the main body moves in the advancing direction;
- a container configured to store an uncured liquid resin 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 liquid resin protectant onto the segment of the man-made surface, the protectant applicator positioned such that the ejected uncured liquid resin protectant is applied after the segment of the man-made surface has been smoothed, wherein the uncured liquid resin protectant is configured to cure and withstand vehicle traffic after the uncured liquid resin protectant is applied,
- wherein the man-made surface is a roadway or pathway, and
- wherein the smoothing apparatus is configured to smooth surface irregularities comprising cracks, crevices, and protrusions.
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, the smoothed segment possessing relatively fewer surface irregularities than a remainder of the man-made surface;
- a plurality of rotatable bodies that contact the man-made surface when the main body moves in the advancing direction;
- a container configured to store an uncured liquid resin 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 liquid resin protectant onto the segment of the man-made surface, the protectant applicator positioned such that the ejected uncured liquid resin protectant is applied after the segment of the man-made surface has been smoothed, wherein the uncured liquid resin protectant is configured to cure and withstand vehicle traffic after the uncured liquid resin protectant is applied,
- wherein the man-made surface is a roadway or pathway, and
- wherein the smoothing apparatus is configured to form angled side walls in the man-made surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.