Pavement striping apparatus and method
First Claim
1. An apparatus for rolling paving material and for striping the surface of the material in a combined operation comprising a pavement roller, a striping tape supply on the roller moving therewith, a tape guide means on the roller extending between the tape supply and a point near the nip between the roller and paving material being rolled, whereby said roller can press striping tape into the paving material during the rolling thereof and the roller can draw the tape from the supply and along the guide means to said nip.
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Abstract
Pavement striping tape is drawn through a guide mounted on a rolling machine by the direct action of the front pavement roller. The tape is delivered from a spool or spools on a first spindle mounted above the tape guide and the tape backing paper is automatically withdrawn from the tape and wound up on a spool or spools on a second spindle spaced from and rotationally powered from the first spindle. Both spindles are driven by the movement of the tape downwardly due to the direct action of the front pavement roller. The striping tape is pressed by the roller into hot fresh asphalt paving material during the final rolling of the asphalt.
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- 1. An apparatus for rolling paving material and for striping the surface of the material in a combined operation comprising a pavement roller, a striping tape supply on the roller moving therewith, a tape guide means on the roller extending between the tape supply and a point near the nip between the roller and paving material being rolled, whereby said roller can press striping tape into the paving material during the rolling thereof and the roller can draw the tape from the supply and along the guide means to said nip.
- 8. A method of applying striping tape to fresh hot asphaltic pavement during the finish rolling of the pavement in a single combined operation, comprising the steps of rolling fresh hot asphaltic paving material to produce a finished wear surface thereon, simultaneously utilizing the rolling movement of a pavement roller to continually pull pavement striping tape from a tape source, and positively guiding said striping tape during its movement from said source so that the tape is continually delivered onto the pavement immediately in advance of said roller and substantially at the nip defined between the roller and pavement.
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