EP0279204A1 - Elastomere Fahrbahnmarkierung - Google Patents
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- EP0279204A1 EP0279204A1 EP88100848A EP88100848A EP0279204A1 EP 0279204 A1 EP0279204 A1 EP 0279204A1 EP 88100848 A EP88100848 A EP 88100848A EP 88100848 A EP88100848 A EP 88100848A EP 0279204 A1 EP0279204 A1 EP 0279204A1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
- E01F9/00—Arrangement of road signs or traffic signals; Arrangements for enforcing caution
- E01F9/50—Road surface markings; Kerbs or road edgings, specially adapted for alerting road users
- E01F9/553—Low discrete bodies, e.g. marking blocks, studs or flexible vehicle-striking members
- E01F9/565—Low discrete bodies, e.g. marking blocks, studs or flexible vehicle-striking members having deflectable or displaceable parts
- E01F9/573—Self-righting, upright flexible or rockable markers, e.g. resilient flaps bending over
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
- E01F9/00—Arrangement of road signs or traffic signals; Arrangements for enforcing caution
- E01F9/50—Road surface markings; Kerbs or road edgings, specially adapted for alerting road users
- E01F9/576—Traffic lines
- E01F9/578—Traffic lines consisting of preformed elements, e.g. tapes, block-type elements specially designed or arranged to make up a traffic line
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- This invention pertains to pavement markers used in delineating traffic lanes on highways.
- pavement markings have fallen into three basic classes:
- Raised pavement markers offer a greater degree of night delineation or retroreflection, wet or dry, than is offered by painted lines and tapes.
- Most commercial forms of raised lane delineators comprise a flat-bottomed disk or base (ceramic, polymeric or metal) having a raised portion which carries a reflector portion made of reflective glass microspheres or cube-corner reflector inserts. After the passage of time, these devices can move or slide out of position under the repeated impact of vehicle wheels.
- Raised markers or delineators have found wide application in road markings, but their application would be even wider except for some disadvantages, specifically: cost (more expensive than tape or reflective paint), poor durability (broken upon impact, scratched reflective surface, etc.) and placement, requiring curable adhesives (epoxy), holes or anchors to remain in place. In geographic areas in which roadways must be plowed to clear them of snow, such lane delineators are quickly removed by the plowing operation. Furthermore, raised markers made of a hard or heavy material could cause property damage and injury if they were thrown into the air by a snowplow, e.g., breaking a passing motorist's windshield.
- Some known pavement markers have a raised rubber reflecting portion or tab which is intended to bend over under a vehicle tire. Others have a reflecting portion which is supposed to retract into a recess in the pavement.
- the former type is illustrated by U.S. Patents 4,111,581; 3,963,362; 3,879,148; and 3,785,719 corresponding to DE-U-7,136,160.
- the reflecting portion is a flat reflectorized rubber piece of tab rising above the pavement surface. The tab is supported at its bottom by attachment to the base portion.
- the object of this invention is a raised pavement marker offering a high degree of reflectivity, low cost, ease of placement with adequate durability, and safety while alleviating the support and creasing problems of prior raised rubber markers.
- Another object is to provide a preformed tape offering the same advantages of high reflectivity, low cost, and good durability.
- a roadway marker which comprises a body having an approximately flat base portion which can be attached to a roadway, and which has a raised surface adapted to face oncoming traffic when the marker is mounted on a road, and a reflective material attached to said raised surface, said body being made of an elastomer and having a compressive strength (see ASTM specification D1056) at 25% compression of less that about 100kPa (about 14.5 pounds per square inch). That is, a compressive force of less than about 100kPa will compress the material 25%. Normally its compressive strength at 25% compression is at least 41kPa (6 p.s.i.). Compressive strength is measured by ASTM test specification D1056.
- Hollow cross-section markers may help to dissipate the heat of compression better than solid foam, and they may compress better, offering less resistance to vehicles travelling over them.
- a soft, easily compressed elastomer preferably a sponge or cellular polymer (cellular rubber)
- a retroreflective film may be applied to the foam to provide the desired reflective properties.
- Pavement markers tested in reducing this invention to practice exhibited brightness far beyond conventional paints or tapes, and similar to that of known raised pavement markers. In addition, these markers reflected effectively both wet and dry.
- markers may also utilize pressure-sensitive adhesive on the bottom for adhering to the road surface, making their placement very easy by simply pressing them to the surface.
- the uncompressed marker height is normally in the range of 5 mm to 25 mm, and is preferably no greater than 20 mm.
- Reflective tapes for such purposes as lane delineation can take advantage of the same principle. That is, they can be made of slightly raised foam or cellular polymer which easily compresses under the weight of a vehicle tire. Preferably, the total thickness of the tape is up to about 2.5 mm maximum. With ordinary tapes, much of the frictional force from a vehicle tire are believed to be transmitted to the interface between the adhesive and the road. Known tapes can smear, break or slide under these forces, e.g. the shear stress created by a tire being turned on a tape. The cellular polymer would dampen these applied forces, reducing the effect on the adhesive interface.
- the tape could be produced by cutting a strip of foam polymer from a cylinder of such material and applying a reflective layer to the strip. The reflective (preferably retroreflective) layer could be applied by reverse roll coating polyurethane to the foam strip and next placing glass beads on the polyurethane while it is still wet.
- a pressure sensitive adhesive may be placed on the bottom surface for adhereing to
- the type of raised pavement markers disclosed herein may be produced at very low cost, thereby allowing placement of a series of numerous markers so drivers would see a continuous stripe along the road. Where reflector height is 9.5 mm and viewing distance is about 61 meters the markers should be placed at about 760 mm intervals for reflecting from automobile headlights.
- FIG. 1 shows the components of one embodiment of this invention.
- Item 8 is an elastomeric body, for example made of a sponge elastomer such as polyurethane, silicone rubber, ethylene propylene diene terpolymer (EPDM), neoprene or blends of EPDM and neoprene.
- Adhesive layer 10 is attached to the base of the body, and reflecting material 11 is attached to the convex reflecting surface portion of the body.
- Reflecting material 11 is preferably thin retroreflective sheet comprising a polymeric support sheet in which a monolayer of transparent microspheres or beads are embedded to slightly more than half their diameter.
- the glass beads carry a coating or reflective material such as aluminum over their embedded surfaces.
- the reflector support sheet has a layer of adhesive on the back by which it is adhered to the pavement marker body as shown.
- enclosed lens sheeting appears to perform best (i.e., glass beads covered by a clear polymer layer) although an exposed lens sheeting and cube corner reflectors may also be used.
- Reinforcement may be used within the body (e.g., fiberglass fabric or fibers) to strengthen the markers.
- the pavement marker bodies of this invention can be made by an extrusion process.
- the manufacture of cellular or sponge rubbers in an extrusion process is known.
- the uncured elastomer is generally compounded with vulcanizing chemicals and a blowing agent at a temperature below the decomposition temperature of the blowing agent.
- a suitable EPDM sponge rubber is described in Borg, E.L., "Ethylene/Propylene Rubber", in Rubber Technology , 2d ed., Morton, M. ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1973, at pages 242 and 243.
- the compound is extruded through a die of specified shape.
- the extrudate is then cured and simultaneously expanded at elevated temperature. Curing may be done in a brine bath at about 204°C.
- a reflective (preferably retroreflective) film is applied to the raised surface adapted to face oncoming traffic, generally by use of an adhesive such as a pressure sensitive adhesive.
- the retroreflective film is preferably of the type known as wide angle flat top sheet which comprises: a back reflector; an overlying transparent matrix; a light-returning layer of small transparent spheres embedded in the transparent matrix in optical connection with the back reflector but spaced from it a distance to increase substantially the brilliance of reflected light; and a transparent overlying solid covering and conforming to the front extremeties of the spheres and having a flat front face.
- Such sheeting reflects a cone of light back toward a light source, even though the incident beam strikes the reflector at an angle other than perpendicular to the sheeting.
- U.S. Patent 2,407,680 The transparent film occupying the space between the spheres and the reflector is called the spacing film.
- This wide angle flat top sheeting can be considered an embedded lens or enclosed lens sheeting having a spacing film or layer with a thickness which locates the back reflector at the approximate focal point of the optical system.
- Wide angle flat top retroreflective sheeting may be made, for example, by a solution casting technique comprising the following process steps: (a) providing a paper carrier web coated with a release agent such as polyethylene; (b) a coating the release agent side of the carrier web with a 25% solids solution of fully reacted aliphatic elastomeric polyurethane of the polyester type in an isopropanol, toluene, xylene solvent (e.g., QI3787 from K. J.
- a solution casting technique comprising the following process steps: (a) providing a paper carrier web coated with a release agent such as polyethylene; (b) a coating the release agent side of the carrier web with a 25% solids solution of fully reacted aliphatic elastomeric polyurethane of the polyester type in an isopropanol, toluene, xylene solvent (e.g., QI3787 from K. J.
- a polyurethane hard coating may be applied to the front surface of the sheeting to reduce the accumulation of dirt on the sheeting in use.
- Such a hard coating has a generally tack-free surface and substantially higher 100% modulus of elasticity and lower ultimate elongation than the polyurethane used for the transparent matrix in the reflective sheeting.
- a typical suitable hard coat polymer is K. J. Quinn QI3515 having a 100% modulus of 5840 psi (40.2 MPa) and 210% ultimate elongation, fully reacted aliphatic elastomeric polyurethane of the polyester type.
- the polyurethane polymers used for the transparent matrix and spacing layers are useful because they are somewhat elastic and can follow the movement of the pavement marker body without delaminating.
- an adhesive is applied to the bottom surface of the marker body.
- it is phenolic modified polybutadiene pressure sensitive adhesive at least about 250 microns thick cast on a disposable (paper) liner. The liner is removed prior to placement of the marker on the road surface.
- the markers may be applied to the road by at least two methods.
- One such method is removing the adhesive liner and pressing the marker to the road surface or onto other marking materials (tape or paint).
- a second method comprises applying the markers to a tape which is thereafter applied to the road.
- FIG. 1 The embodiment of Figure 1 is of D cross-section.
- Body 8 has a reflecting layer 11 adhered to its curved surface and adhesive layer 10 adhered to its straight side.
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AT88100848T ATE66509T1 (de) | 1983-04-11 | 1984-04-10 | Elastomere fahrbahnmarkierung. |
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US06/505,382 US4521129A (en) | 1983-06-17 | 1983-06-17 | Elastomeric pavement marker having improved configuration |
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WO1998024978A1 (en) * | 1996-12-04 | 1998-06-11 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Raised pavement marker that uses pressure sensitive adhesive |
US6861141B2 (en) | 1996-12-04 | 2005-03-01 | Gina M. Buccellato | Pavement marking article and raised pavement marker that uses pressure sensitive adhesive |
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EP0161332B1 (de) * | 1984-04-10 | 1989-02-01 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Elastomere Fahrbahnmarkierung |
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AU594033B2 (en) * | 1985-12-31 | 1990-03-01 | Roadmark Group Limited | Improvements in and relating to delineators |
CH674385A5 (de) * | 1988-04-15 | 1990-05-31 | Minnesota Mining & Mfg | |
CA1307971C (en) * | 1988-06-09 | 1992-09-29 | Thomas Peter Hedblom | Patterned pavement marking |
DE3905597A1 (de) * | 1989-02-23 | 1990-09-13 | Juergen Benaburger | Markierungselement |
AU602120B1 (en) * | 1989-05-29 | 1990-09-27 | Clawb Pty. Ltd. | Improvements in road markers |
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WO1998024978A1 (en) * | 1996-12-04 | 1998-06-11 | Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company | Raised pavement marker that uses pressure sensitive adhesive |
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DE3484962D1 (de) | 1991-09-26 |
AU2669284A (en) | 1984-10-18 |
AU589067B2 (en) | 1989-09-28 |
EP0279204B1 (de) | 1991-08-21 |
AU575044B2 (en) | 1988-07-21 |
JPS6023505A (ja) | 1985-02-06 |
JPH0651962B2 (ja) | 1994-07-06 |
EP0125785A1 (de) | 1984-11-21 |
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DE3473484D1 (en) | 1988-09-22 |
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