Method for applying a night-visible traffic stripe to a road
AssigneeThe Rainline Corporation
InventorForrest C. Marcato
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for applying a traffic stripe having improved reflectivity includes a vehicle having an apparatus for applying the traffic stripe, an applying assembly for dispersing a reflective material over the traffic stripe, another applying apparatus for applying a releasing agent, and a deformation apparatus disposed rearward thereof for forming interval grooves in the traffic stripe. The application of the releasing agent directly onto the traffic stripe or onto the deformation apparatus prevents the freshly applied traffic stripe from lifting off the road surface and adhering to the deformation apparatus.
Claims15
A method for applying a night-visible traffic stripe to a road surface, said method comprising the steps of:
- applying a material capable of adhesion and forming a traffic stripe to a road surface;
- applying a first particulate reflective material to the traffic stripe with a first reflective material applicator and incorporating the first reflective material into the traffic stripe;
- applying means for preventing adhesion between the traffic stripe material and a deformation means such that the deformation means remains substantially free of traffic stripe material during a deformation step;
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- deforming the traffic stripe material with the deformation means to form spaced grooves in the traffic stripe material;
- wherein said step of applying means for preventing adhesion includes applying a second particulate reflective material to the traffic stripe with a second reflective material applicator prior to said deforming step to form a barrier of the second reflective material on an upper surface of the traffic stripe that prevents adhesion between the traffic stripe material and the deformation means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.