Method and means for forming road signs
AssigneeImpianti 2000 S.N.C. di Valcavi Anna E.C.
InventorLuigi Solime′
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Abstract
According to the invention, blocks (10) are formed of rigid colored material shaped as mosaic components of the road sign; the sign is then composed by arranging the blocks (10) as a mosaic, and incorporatedly inserting the blocks (10) into the upper layer (40) of the wearing course, in such a manner that the upper surface of the mosaic road sign is substantially coplanar with the road surface.
Claims8
A method for constructing road signs in the wearing surface of a road which comprises,
- forming blocks of a rigid colored ceramic material, which are colored throughout;
- arranging the blocks as mosaic components of the road sign within a pan-like container adapted to receive the thus composed road sign substantially as an exact fit;
- then inserting the road sign disposed in said pan-like container into a cavity formed in the upper layer of the wearing course, and
- inserting the blocks into a cavity formed in an upper layer of the wearing course in such a manner that the mosaic components of the road sign are incorporated into said cavity such that the upper surface of the mosaic road sign is substantially coplanar with the road surface.
A road sign adapted to be formed in the wearing surface of a road and substantially coplanar therewith which comprises:
- a plurality of blocks shaped in such a manner as to form the desired road sign using a mosaic technique, wherein the plurality of blocks are disposed in a first pan-like container arranged to contain, substantially as an exact fit, the road sign composed as the mosaic of blocks.
A method for constructing road signs in the wearing surface of a road which comprises:
- forming blocks of a rigid colored ceramic material, which are colored throughout;
- arranging the blocks as mosaic components of the road sign, within a first pan-like container adapted to receive the thus composed road sign substantially as an exact fit;
- inserting a second pan-like container, adapted to contain the first pan-like container substantially as an exact fit, into the upper layer of the wearing course;
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- inserting the first pan-like container containing the mosaic road sign into the second pan-like container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.