Traffic stripe lay-out device

• US 20060188332A1
• Filed: 02/23/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Twocanine, LLC
• Original Assignee: Twocanine, LLC
• Inventors: Anderson, Paul M.
• Application Number:
  US11/360,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20060188332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 404/86
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/163 for marking-out the location of the markings; Guiding or steering devices for marking apparatus, e.g. sights

Abstract

A stripe lay-out device configured to be mounted on and operate from a motor vehicle includes a telescopically extendable tube assembly, which can be controllably displaced so as to position one or more paint guns at desired locations relative to a road or pavement surfaces for paint pre-marking such surfaces, the extendable tube assembly being swingable between horizontal working and vertical travel and parked non-working dispositions in response to operator command.

Claims

1. A device mountable to a vehicle for paint line stripe lay-out of road traffic surfaces, said vehicle having a front end, a rear end, and right and left sides, said device comprising:

an elongated boom assembly, said boom assembly including at least one boom end section length pivot connected to a boom assembly remainder length or pivoting movement of said one end section between an upright non-working and travel disposition and a horizontally disposed operating disposition;

means for mounting said boom assembly on one of said vehicle front end and said rear end disposed transverse to a vehicle long axis and such that said one end section when in operating disposition can locate laterally of one of said vehicle right side and said left side;

actuator means for pivoting said end section between said upright and said horizontal dispositions;

nozzle means carried at least on a distal tip end of said one end section;

a source of paint carried on said vehicle;

a source of flush fluid carried on said vehicle;

a source pressurized air carried on said vehicle; and

means for selectively effecting and controlling one of a flow of paint and a flush fluid flow from respective ones of said paint source and said flush fluid source with pressurized air from said pressurized air source to said nozzle means.

2. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said actuator means comprises a power operated unit.

3. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said nozzle means are carried at a tip end of said boom assembly.

4. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said one boom end section length carries at least one telescopic extension length slidably therein for extending an effective operating length thereof.

5. A lay-out device according to claim 4, wherein said one boom end section length carries at least a second telescopic extension length slidably within said at least one extension length.

6. A lay-out device according to claim 5, wherein said nozzle means is carried at a tip end of said second telescopic extension length.

7. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein a warning and sight light is carried on said boom assembly proximal a location of each nozzle means.

8. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said boom assembly mounting means comprises a hitch unit having a clevis part fixed to said boom assembly in which said boom assembly is received, and a bracket part for affixing said hitch unit to a front end structure part of said vehicle.

9. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said selectively effecting and controlling means includes a console mounted on said vehicle for mounting mixing valve means thereon and hose members connected to said mixing valve means.

10. A lay-out device according to claim 9, wherein said selectively effecting and controlling means further includes a controller console having control setting elements thereon with which an operator sets operating parameters and initiates paint striping.

11. A lay-out device according to claim 10, wherein said controller console is mounted to said front end of said vehicle.

12. A lay-out device according to claim 11, wherein said controller console carries indicia instructing device operating steps thereon.

13. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein a free end of said remainder length of said boom assembly carries a telescopic extension length for extending boom assembly operating length laterally to the left side of said vehicle. an operating length in a direction away from the connection of said remainder length with said boom one end section.

14. A lay-out device according to claim 13, wherein said free end of said remainder length of said boom assembly carries another extension length telescopically slidably received in the first-mentioned extension length for further extending said boom assembly operating length.

15. A lay-out device according to claim 1, wherein said means for mounting said boom assembly on said vehicle front end comprises at least two hitching units, said hitching units including a part fixable to said boom assembly remainder length and, a bracket arm part fixable to structure of said vehicle.

16. A lay-out device according to claim 15, wherein said hitching units are disposed symmetrically of a long axis of said vehicle.

17. A lay-out device according to claim 16, further comprising a third hitching unit mounting said boom assembly to said vehicle, said third hitching unit being disposed centrally of said two hitching units on said vehicle long axis.

18. A lay-out device according to claim 17, wherein said hitching unit parts fixable to said boom assembly remainder length are one of removably connected and fixedly connected to said boom assembly remainder length, and hitching units bracket arm parts are one of removably connected and fixedly connected to said vehicle structure.