ROAD FINISHER, TAMPER BAR FOR A ROAD FINISHER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TAMPER BAR

• US 20190024326A1
• Filed: 09/21/2018
• Published: 01/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bomag GmbH (FAYAT SAS)
• Original Assignee: Bomag GmbH (FAYAT SAS)
• Inventors: CAPUTO, Gianluca
• Granted Patent: US 10,443,196 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 tamper bar for a road finisher, the tamper bar comprising:

an upper tamper bar member and a lower tamper bar member assembled together, the tamper bar disposed rearwardly and/or forwardly of a 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 obtained through thermal spraying onto a substrate surface.

2. A method of manufacturing a tamper bar, comprising the following steps:

forming an upper tamper bar member;

forming a lower tamper bar member;

forming a groove in either one of an upper surface of the lower tamper bar member or a lower surface of the upper tamper bar member;

applying a heating layer of a heating element to a surface of the groove via thermal spraying; and

assembling the lower tamper bar member and the upper tamper bar member so as to form the tamper bar.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the heating layer is multilayered comprising at least an insulating layer, a strip conductor, and a sealing layer, and wherein the step of applying the heating layer has been performed by plasma spraying or high velocity oxygen fuel spraying (HVOF).

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the upper tamper bar member and the lower tamper bar member are assembled by screwing the upper tamper bar member to the lower tamper bar member, and wherein the method further comprises a step of providing electrical connections in the upper tamper bar member for electrically connecting the heating element to a power source.