Road finisher with heated tamper bar

• US 10,113,274 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2016
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bomag GmbH (FAYAT SAS)
• Original Assignee: Bomag GmbH (FAYAT SAS)
• Inventors: Caputo, Gianluca
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartmann, Gary S
• Application Number:
  US15/355,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20170138002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: 404 95, 404114, 404118
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/06 Metallic material
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/10 Oxides, borides, carbides, nitrides or silicides; Mixtures thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/126 Detonation spraying
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 4/134 Plasma spraying
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/34 Power-driven rammers or tampers , e.g. air-hammer impacted shoes for ramming stone-sett paving; Hand-actuated ramming or tamping machines, e.g. tampers with manually hoisted dropping weight
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/40 adapted to impart a smooth finish to the paving, e.g. tamping or vibrating finishers
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/405 with spreading-out, levelling or smoothing means other than the tamping or vibrating means for compacting or smoothing, e.g. with screws for spreading-out the previously dumped material, with non-vibratory lengthwise reciprocated smoothing beam E01C19/407 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/4833 with tamping or vibrating means for consolidating or finishing, e.g. immersed vibrators, with or without non-vibratory or non-percussive pressing or smoothing means E01C19/4806, E01C19/4886 take precedence; combined with rollers E01C19/488
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/486 with non-vibratory or non-percussive pressing or smoothing means; with supplemental elements penetrating the paving to work the material thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/14 for heating or drying foundation, paving, or materials thereon, e.g. paint E01C23/03 takes precedence; heating or drying devices incorporated in the paving E01C11/26; surface soil stabilisation by fusing, calcining or burning soil in situ E01C21/02; for street cleaning E01H1/08; melting snow or ice on surfacing E01H5/10
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 2301/10 Heated screeds

Abstract

A road finisher comprising a screed plate extending at right angles to the working direction of the road finisher, and a tamper bar disposed rearwardly and/or forwardly of the screed plate in the working direction, wherein at least one electrically operated heating element is present, which is configured so as to heat up a heating surface facing a road subsurface, and wherein the heating element comprises a heating layer at least partially obtained through thermal spraying onto a substrate surface, wherein the tamper bar is made from two parts with an upper tamper bar member and a lower tamper bar member assembled together. Further, a tamper bar for a road finisher and a method of manufacturing a tamper bar are provided.

Claims

1. A road finisher, comprising:

a screed plate extending at right angles to the working direction of the road finisher; and

a tamper bar disposed rearwardly and/or forwardly of the screed plate in the working direction, wherein at least one electrically operated heating element is present, which is configured to heat up a heating surface facing a road subsurface, and wherein the heating element comprises a heating layer at least partially comprising a thermal spray coating obtained through thermal spraying onto a substrate surface, wherein the tamper bar is made from two parts with an upper tamper bar member and a lower tamper bar member assembled together;

wherein the upper tamper bar member has a lower surface which, in the assembled state, contacts an upper surface of the lower tamper bar member, wherein a groove is provided in the lower surface of the upper tamper bar member; and

wherein the heating layer, which is multilayered comprising at least an insulating layer, a strip conductor, and a sealing layer, is accommodated in the groove.

2. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the substrate surface is provided by a surface of the groove in the lower surface of the upper tamper bar member.

3. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the thermal spray coating of the heating layer further comprises a multilayered coating, wherein each of the insulating layer, the strip conductor, and the sealing layer provide a coating layer of the multilayered coating, respectively.

4. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the thermal spray coating is a plasma spray coating or high velocity oxygen fuel spray coating.

5. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the groove, in the assembled state of the upper tamper bar member and the lower tamper bar member, provides an encapsulated cavity for the heating layer.

6. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the upper tamper bar member forms a spacer between a piston rod connected to an upper surface of the upper tamper bar member and the lower tamper bar member.

7. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the upper tamper bar member and/or the lower tamper bar member is/are made from steel.

8. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein at least the insulating layer and/or the sealing layer are made from an alumina based material.

9. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the strip conductor consists substantially of nickel, chromium, or an alloy including both nickel and chromium.

10. The road finisher according to claim 6, wherein electrical connections of the heating element are provided on the upper surface of the upper tamper bar member.

11. The road finisher according to claim 1, wherein the upper tamper bar member is connected to the lower tamper bar member by fixation means.