Roadway striper
AssigneeJere B. Ford, Inc.
InventorJere B. Ford, Jr.
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Abstract
A wheeled machine for applying marking tape in strips to a roadway surface from a spool supply including a manually movable pulling wheel which can be lowered to force the free end of the tape against the roadway surface. A cutting blade moves with the pulling wheel but is only operable to sever the tape, when a stationary cutter bar is moved into position beneath the tape. A finishing wheel on the machine smooths out the applied tape. Controls for the pulling wheel and cutter bar are by a bell crank mounted on the machine handle bars working through a flexible cable.
Claims10
A portable, hand-propelled or towable machine for applying marking tape to a roadway or like surface comprising, an elongated framework, transport wheels supporting said framework on the surface to be marked, means on said framework near the front thereof to support a spool of marking tape, pulling wheel means mounted on said framework for vertical movement via manually actuated means between a raised stowed position and a lowered position pressing said tape against the said surface, cutting means extending substantially normal to the longitudinal center line of said framework and mounted thereon above the tape for vertical movement, and a cutter bar mounted on said framework below said cutting means and movable via manually actuated means from a stowed position lateral of said center line and of said tape into a fixed working position across and normal to said center line below said tape and cooperable with said cutting means to sever said tape, said cutting means being mounted on said pulling wheel means and moving vertically therewith.
A machine for applying marking tape as defined in claim 2 and further including spring means to normally maintain the cutting means and said pulling wheel means in the raised stowed position.
A portable self-propelled roadway striper comprising a wheeled framework, tape spool support means on said framework near the front thereof, a pulling wheel-cutter assembly mounted on said framework for movement between an upper stowed position and a lowered operating position, said assembly including a pair of side frames pivotally mounted adjacent one end thereof to said framework, a pulling wheel journaled between said side frames, and a cutting blade mounted rearwardly of said pulling wheel, spring means mounted on said framework for normally urging said assembly into its stowed position, manually actuated means for pivoting said assembly into the operating position against the force of said spring means and against a tape trailing from a spool mounted on said spool support means, and a cutter bar mounted on and below said framework and movable laterally thereof from a stowed position lateral of said cutting blade and the tape to a fixed operative position to cooperate with said cutting blade, and manually actuated means on said framework to move said cutter bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.