Pervious pavement installation

• US 5,971,656 A
• Filed: 03/16/1998
• Issued: 10/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Merrill Lynch Commercial Finance Corp (Bank of America Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Thomas Edward Kitsmiller
• Inventors: Kitsmiller, Thomas Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): LISEHORA, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US09/039,407
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 404/74, 404/75, 404/85, 404/106, 404/122, 404/128, 404/72, 249/2, 249/4, 249/5
• US Class Current: 404/74
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/488 with rollers for consolidating or finishing combined with tamping, vibrating, pressing or smoothing consolidation or finishing means E01C19/4886 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/025 Making or working grooves or like channels in laid paving, e.g. smoothing groove edges E01C23/026, E01C23/028 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/03 Arrangements for curing paving; Devices for applying curing means; Devices for laying prefabricated underlay, e.g. sheets, membranes reinforcing elements E01C23/04; Protecting paving under construction or while curing, e.g. use of tents road barriers E01F13/00

Abstract

A hot-mix motorized paver is used to deliver fresh pervious pavement mix to form one or more lanes of pavement. The paver is supported on ski-type support runners on parallel side forms. A compacting roller is connected to the paver and rolls along the top of each side form to compact the fresh pavement down to the top of the forms. Indentations are cut into the fresh compacted pavement by rolling a hand powered roller, containing a pointed hoop, across the fresh pavement at select locations to form expansion joints. The pavement is covered with polyethylene sheeting within 20 minutes after completion of placement and finishing, the sheeting is removed after a curing time of approximately seven days, and a concrete saw is used to remove excess pervious pavement that extends beyond the desired paved area.

Claims

1. A method of installing and finishing Portland Cement Pervious Pavement with a very efficient, time-saving procedure, comprising the steps of

(1). constructing, at desired locations, two parallel forms, spaced apart and sufficient in stability and strength to support the mechanical equipment, and being the length and depth of the finished compacted pavement,

(2). constructing a transversal form, positioned to connect the two parallel forms and equal in their strength and height and located at the beginning point of the pavement area,

(3). positioning a hot-mix motorized paver between the parallel forms and positioning its screed against the transversal form,

(4). installing on each end of the hot-mix paver'"'"'s screed, adjustable ski-type support runners, positioned for each support runner to rest on and move along the top of its respective form, for supporting the screed'"'"'s height and level, as the paver moves between the parallel forms and performs its paving functions,

(5). installing behind the hot-mix paver, a compacting roller, positioned parallel to the paver'"'"'s width and having each of its ends connected, by connectors, to the paver'"'"'s rear side respectively, for power movement, and being sufficient in length to span the area between the parallel forms and rest and roll along the top of each form,

(6). delivering fresh Pervious Pavement mix into the hot-mix paver'"'"'s hopper,

(7). delivering the fresh Pervious Pavement mix through the paver and under its leveled screed at a selected level across the area between the parallel forms and at the selected height above the parallel forms that allows the compacting roller'"'"'s function to compact the fresh Pervious Pavement down to the top of the parallel forms,

(8). cutting indentations across the fresh compacted pavement by rolling the hand powered roller, containing a pointed hoop, across the fresh pavement at selected locations, for expansion joints,

(9). covering the fresh Pervious Pavement, within 20 minutes after completion of placement and finishing, with polyethylene sheeting, to allow for the proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(10). removing the polyethylene sheeting, the parallel forms and the transversal form from the lane of Pervious Pavement, after proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(11). removing, from the end of the paved area, any excess Pervious Pavement that extends beyond the desired paved area by the use of a concrete saw, thus completing the paving of a lane of Pervious Pavement.

2. A method of installing and finishing Portland Cement Pervious Pavement with a width of at least two lanes, with a very efficient, time-saving procedure, comprising the steps of

(1). constructing, at desired locations, two parallel forms, spaced apart and sufficient in stability and strength to support the mechanical equipment, and being the length and depth of the finished compacted pavement,

(2). constructing a transversal form, positioned to connect the two parallel forms and equal in their strength and height and located at the beginning point of the pavement area,

(3). positioning a hot-mix motorized paver between the parallel forms and positioning its screed against the transversal form,

(4). installing on each end of the hot-mix paver'"'"'s screed, adjustable ski-type support runners, positioned for each support runner to rest on and move along the top of its respective form, for supporting the screed'"'"'s height and level, as the paver moves between the parallel forms and performs its paving functions,

(5). installing behind the hot-mix paver, a compacting roller, positioned parallel to the paver'"'"'s width and having each of its ends connected, by connectors, to the paver'"'"'s rear side respectively, for power movement, and being sufficient in length to span the area between the parallel forms and rest and roll along the top of each form,

(6). delivering fresh Pervious Pavement mix into the hot-mix paver'"'"'s hopper,

(7). delivering the fresh Pervious Pavement mix through the paver and under its leveled screed at a selected level across the area between the parallel forms and at the selected height above the parallel forms that allows the compacting roller'"'"'s function to compact the fresh Pervious Pavement down to the top of the parallel forms,

(8). cutting indentations across the fresh compacted pavement by rolling the hand powered roller, containing a pointed hoop, across the fresh pavement at selected locations, for expansion joints,

(9). covering the fresh Pervious Pavement, within 20 minutes after completion of placement and finishing, with polyethylene sheeting, to allow for the proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(10). removing the polyethylene sheeting, the parallel forms and the transversal form from the lane of Pervious Pavement, after proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(11). removing, from the end of the paved area, any excess Pervious Pavement that extends beyond the desired paved area by the use of a concrete saw, thus completing the paving of a lane of Pervious Pavement,

(12). installing a single form parallel to the edge of the previously paved lane, but spaced apart and sufficient in stability and strength to support the mechanical equipment and being the length and depth of the finished compacted pavement,

(13). constructing a transversal form, positioned to connect the single parallel form to the edge of the previously paved lane of Pervious Pavement and equal in strength, stability and depth to the single parallel form and located at the beginning point of the desired pavement area adjacent to the previously paved lane,

(14). positioning the hot-mix paver between the previously paved lane and the single parallel form and positioning its screed against the transversal form, thus using the parallel form and the edge of the previously paved lane, as the forms for the adjacent lane to be paved, with the paver'"'"'s support runners and its compacting roller, positioned to rest and function on the top edge of the previously paved lane and on the top of the single parallel form respectively, during the paver'"'"'s function of paving,

(15). delivering fresh Pervious Pavement mix into the hot-mix paver'"'"'s hopper,

(16). delivering the fresh Pervious Pavement mix through the paver and under its leveled screed at a selected level across the area between the edge of the previously paved lane and the parallel single form and at the selected height above the previously paved lane and the parallel single form that allows the compacting roller'"'"'s function to compact the fresh Pervious Pavement down to the top of the previously paved lane and the parallel single form respectively,

(17). cutting indentations across the fresh compacted pavement, of this adjacent lane, by rolling the hand powered roller, containing a pointed hoop, across the fresh pavement, at selected locations, for expansion joints,

(18). convering the fresh Pervious Pavement, within 20 minutes after completion of placement and finishing, with polyethylene sheeting, to allow for the proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(19). removing the polyethylene sheeting, the single parallel form and the transversal form from this adjacent lane of Pervious Pavement, after proper curing time of approximately seven days,

(20). removing from the end of this adjacent paved lane any excess Pervious Pavement that extends beyond the desired paved area by the use of a concrete saw, thus completing the paving of two adjacent lanes of Pervious Pavement.