Road repair vehicle

• US 9,157,199 B1
• Filed: 09/02/2014
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kanerva, Ronald
• Original Assignee: Kanerva, Ronald
• Inventors: Kanerva, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Addie, Raymond W
• Application Number:
  US14/474,662
• Time in Patent Office: 406 Days
• Field of Search: 404/6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/002 Apparatus for preparing and placing the materials and for consolidating or finishing the paving
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/08 Apparatus for transporting and heating or melting asphalt, bitumen, tar, or the like stationarily-arranged melting boilers for tar, asphalt, or the like, in general C10C3/12
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/45 Portable apparatus for preparing, or for preparing and applying to the road, compound liquid binders, e.g. emulsified bitumen, fluxed asphalt applying only E01C19/16
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/06 Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface working freshly laid paving E01C19/42 - E01C19/44, E01C23/02; mining picks E21C35/18; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 2301/00 Machine characteristics, parts or accessories not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 13/12 for forcibly arresting or disabling vehicles, e.g. spiked mats
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/163 Structures to protect drivers, e.g. cabins, doors for cabins; Falling object protection structure [FOPS]; Roll over protection structure [ROPS] for handrails mounted on cabins E02F9/0833 takes precedence; for vehicles in general B60R21/11, B60R21/13, for fork-lift trucks B66F9/07545
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A road repair vehicle has an engine for powering the vehicle, a plurality of wheels, and a shelter structure supported above a road by the wheels, the shelter structure forming an enclosure for providing shelter to one or more road repair workers, the shelter structure having an open bottom to enable the one or more road repair workers to access the road to be repaired. The vehicle may be used to repair potholes.

Claims

1. A road repair vehicle comprising:

an engine for powering the vehicle;

a plurality of wheels;

a shelter structure supported above a road by the wheels, the shelter structure forming an enclosure having a front wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a roof and a rear door for providing shelter to one or more road repair workers, the shelter structure having an open bottom to enable the one or more road repair workers to access the road to be repaired; and

a powered drop skirt that descends from the left and right side walls to the road.

2. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an asphalt hopper mounted inside the shelter structure.

3. The vehicle as claimed in claim 2 further comprising a screw feed mounted inside the shelter structure for cooperating with the hopper to move asphalt.

4. The vehicle as claimed in claim 3 further comprising a heated floor pad below the screw feed.

5. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 wherein the rear door of the shelter structure is powered by a roof-mounted actuator.

6. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of lights disposed on a ceiling of the shelter structure to illuminate the road.

7. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of heaters disposed on a ceiling of the shelter structure to provide warmth to the one or more workers.

8. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 wherein the roof comprises a ventilation fan.

9. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 wherein the shelter structure comprises side access doors for the one or more workers to enter or exit the shelter structure, stairs to a raised platform, and a plurality of seats on the raised platform.

10. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of cameras and further comprising a display in a cab of the vehicle for displaying imagery from the cameras.

11. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a generator for electrically powering tools.

12. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a park brake switch inside the shelter structure.

13. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an emergency shutdown switch inside the shelter structure.

14. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a sensor for detecting a worker in a work area of the shelter structure and for automatically disabling at least one vehicle system in response to detecting the worker in the work area.

15. A road repair trailer comprising:

a plurality of wheels;

a trailer hitch for connecting to a tractor-trailer coupling;

a shelter structure defining an enclosure sheltering one or more road repair workers, the shelter structure having a bottom that is open to enable the one or more road repair workers to repair the road from within the shelter structure; and

a powered drop skirt that descends from left and right side walls of the shelter structure to the road.

16. The trailer as claimed in claim 15 further comprising a sensor for detecting a worker in a work area of the shelter structure and for automatically disabling at least one vehicle system in response to detecting the worker in the work area.

17. The trailer as claimed in claim 15 further comprising an asphalt hopper mounted inside the shelter structure, a screw feed mounted inside the shelter structure for cooperating with the hopper to move asphalt, and a heated floor pad below the screw feed.