EP1229171B1 - Dispositif remorqué par véhicule pour tracer des lignes de routes - Google Patents

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EP1229171B1
EP1229171B1 EP02076060A EP02076060A EP1229171B1 EP 1229171 B1 EP1229171 B1 EP 1229171B1 EP 02076060 A EP02076060 A EP 02076060A EP 02076060 A EP02076060 A EP 02076060A EP 1229171 B1 EP1229171 B1 EP 1229171B1
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Lawrence L Lanerd
Bradley K Voigt
James C Schroeder
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C23/00—Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces
    • E01C23/16—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings
    • E01C23/166—Means for dispensing particulate material on to freshly applied markings or into the marking material after discharge thereof, e.g. reflective beads, grip-improving particles
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C23/00—Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces
    • E01C23/16—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings
    • E01C23/20—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings for forming markings in situ
    • E01C23/22—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings for forming markings in situ by spraying
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C23/00—Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces
    • E01C23/16—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings
    • E01C23/20—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings for forming markings in situ
    • E01C23/22—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings for forming markings in situ by spraying
    • E01C23/222—Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving; Protecting fresh markings for forming markings in situ by spraying specially adapted for automatic spraying of interrupted, individual or variable markings

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  • US 3,286,928 discloses a line striping apparatus in which a means for applying paint is attached to a frame and the frame is attached to a bar provided on the front of a vehicle. Hydranlic means are provided for sliding the frame horizontally along the beam in order to align the strips on bends in the road.
  • WO 84 02150 discloses a line striping apparatus with a detection element which senses a marking on the road surface traversed by it, to thereby control the positioning and movement of the means for striping.
  • This invention provides a mechanism for line striping attachable to a rear-end of a vehicle thereof with respect to a direction of travel, said mechanism comprising:
  • the device is intended to apply stripes to roadways to either match existing lines exactly or to apply new stripes per specification with one person operation. Such an operation is allowed by utilising one person operation and providing a monitor delay system and easy to memorise finger touch controls.
  • the control system When the control system is powered up, all gun controls are switched to a guns off position and bead control is on; that is when any paint is turned on beads are applied to that paint.
  • the control system When powered off, all programmed skips, delays, and bead gun distances are retained in memory to be recalled if necessary.
  • the striping mechanism is designed for attachment to a towing vehicle by means of a two-point hitch and the rear of the striping mechanism is supported by a swivel mounted support wheel which in the preferred embodiment has a damping mechanism as well as spring mountings.
  • the support beam may be releasably clamped and moved from side to side so that the spray gun boom arm may be utilised on either side of the striping mechanism also by releasably clamping to the beam.
  • the bead tank is provided with a concave spherically shaped top having a central hole and a plug which is actually located in the tank and which may be pulled upwardly by means of a handle.
  • a handle which is wider than the hole.
  • a gasoline engine powers a hydraulic power supply which in turn runs three hydraulic pumps for supplying of fluid at airless pressures to the three spray guns.
  • the gasoline engine also powers a small air compressor which provides air pressure to the bead supply unit.
  • the control provides an auto cycle set up switch which allows the operator to stay in the vehicle and program the controller to place new lines over existing skip, dotted, dashed or intermittent lines.
  • the auto cycle set up button When the auto cycle set up button is pressed, the skip set up screen appears on the LCD screen and the skip cycle will be flashing. The operator then simply pushes the mark button at the start and end of the cycle and the appropriate distance will appear on the LCD screen under the skip cycle. This can be accomplished at the same time the guns are painting by simply having the appropriate paint guns selected. For greater accuracy, the operator would want to stop on the first mark and then press mark then drive forward to the end of the cycle and stop again and press mark then back up and start painting. After the mark button has been pressed the second time, the auto cycle set up button turns off.
  • the cycle button can be changed any time thereafter by using up and down arrow keys.
  • the paint line length is a manual input and can be changed at any time.
  • the three guns may be switched on and off independently from one another and may either be switched into a solid striping regime or skip lines.
  • the delay button brings up the LCD screen for adjusting the feature monitor delay.
  • the monitor delay is an important part of one man operation and eliminates the need for the operator to look back at the guns when starting, stopping and line changes.
  • the monitor shows a view of a part of the road surface superimposed with cross hairs. The operator simply makes all line selections at the appropriate time when the cross hairs on the monitor reach the point on the road.
  • the delay distance is the number of feet from this point back to the paint guns.
  • the microprocessor simply holds all keyboard commands for a set amount of travelled feet. The operator needs to watch the monitor for alignment purposes so it makes sense to run the paint controls from the same view screen.
  • FIG 8 shows gun carriage 10 in its transport position when it is swung up and locked.
  • the paint pumps C in the preferred embodiment are a hydraulically (A) operated pump C of the Viscount line also manufactured by Graco Inc.
  • A hydraulically operated pump C of the Viscount line also manufactured by Graco Inc.
  • the framework 16 of the striping mechanism 10 itself attaches to the vehicle by means of two receivers 22 holding trailer hitch balls of conventional design.
  • the two-point hitch 18 (one side is shown with an identical hitch on the other side) allows the striping mechanism 10 to maintain absolute linearity with the vehicle 20 itself and does not suffer from articulation problems present in typical trailers.
  • a pivotable wheel 24 is located on the rear end of the striping frame to provide support and a damping mechanism 46 is utilised in hub J in order to prevent the swivel wheel 24 from becoming unstable at speed.
  • Figure 10 shows the two point hitch 18 having a hitch frame 18A which is part of a normal frame mounted hitch such as manufactured by DRAW-TITE.
  • Two hitch receivers 18B are clamped to frame rail 18A as shown allowing use of standard hitches for the two point hitch 18.
  • the three pumps C which each are designed to pump two different colours (typically one being a white and the other being yellow) are driven off a common gasoline engine P and hydraulic power supply K.
  • a bead container M is utilised along with a small compressor O driven off the same gasoline engine P and the bead container M is pressurised in order to supply beads to the bead gun V.
  • the bead container M is provided with a knockout plug 60 of the type commonly used in sandblasting equipment and a depressed upper surface 58 which allows easy loading of beads and quick locking and sealing of the container M.
  • wheel 24 rides on axle 28 and pivot member 30 which pivots about pivot point 32 on swivel fork 34.
  • a spring pivot 36 mounts a pair of rod ends 38 which extend through springs 40 into mounting plate 42.
  • rod ends 38 are always under tension and serve to compress springs 40, and under suspension, loads will compress even more.
  • Swivel axle 44 extends upwardly from swivel fork 34 through damping mechanism 46 in Hub J.
  • One or more belleville washers 48 serve to preload a damping surface member 50 which may be manufactured from an acetal homopolymer (100AF); which is impregnated with Teflon or a similar material.
  • the carriage rod/main beam L may be unlocked and moved to either side of the vehicle and thence the boom arm moved to the outside of the carriage rod L so that the stripe may be positioned as desired.
  • two supports T are cranked down by hand which lift the two hitch mechanisms 18 off the balls and allow the whole mechanism to be wheeled away from the vehicle.
  • Frame 16 has a channel 52 thereon, with a pair of clamps 54 of the over-centre type which serve to clamp and retain main beam L in the channel 52.
  • Main beam L is desirably manufactured from a piece of square tubing with a piece of plate welded to one corner thereof, with clamps 54 gripping the steel plate.
  • Bolts 56 may be inserted on either end to limit the travel of main beam L.
  • the operator may merely unlatch transport pin B and unclamp clamps 12 and 54. The operator can then extend main beam L to the side on which a stripe is desired and spray gun boom arm U can be moved outwardly to the striping position and clamp 12 locked again with boom U lowered so that road wheel 14 contacts the ground.
  • the spray guns W may then be positioned as desired along with bead guns V.
  • Bead guns V are shown in more detail in Figure 9 and have a teardrop shaped needle 64 which reduces chattering by encouraging laminar flow therethrough.
  • the attached operation instructions show the menu flow chart for the controller and help explain set up and operation.
  • the following table expands on the controls shown in Figure 2: Switch/Indicator Explanation
  • a POWER ON/OFF switch ON enables battery DC power to the Control and to the engine. OFF removes power from the Control and the engine. Engine cannot be started when this switch is in the OFF position.
  • B Paint gun switches 1, 2 and 3 Enables/disables paint guns 1, 2 and 3. Up - dashed line. Centre - off. Down - continuous line.
  • C RESET/HOLD switch HOLD disables paint guns 1, 2 and 3 and resets the internal cycle counter. RESET resets the internal cycle counter but does not affect continuous line activity. If switch is held in RESET, a new cycle will not begin until the switch is released.
  • D ADV/RESET switch Used in conjunction with the arrow switches to adjust the paint line position to match a previously painted line. ADV allows the dash line to be moved forward. RET allows the dash line to be moved closer. E BEADS ON/BEADS TEST Enables/disables bead gun BEAD ON (up) - beads start to flow when paint guns start to paint. Centre - off. BEADS TEST (down) - continuous bead flow F I/O cable port The I/O cable connects here and at the RL. Also brings in 12 Vdc from the RL G AUTO CYCLE SETUP Used to calculate the paint and cycle time of a previously painted skip line. Calculated values automatically are placed in the paint and cycle length menu.
  • H SYSTEM DELAY ON/OFF OFF (unlit) - the paint guns and RESET/HOLD respond immediately.
  • ON (lit) - the paint gun switches 1, 2 and 3; and RESET/HOLD switch are delayed by the preset system delay distance.
  • Remote control switch plug-in Provides two remote functions for the paint gun switches 1, 2 and 3: 1. Skip line - acts as a cycle reset when tapped and a cycle hold when held down. Has no effect on solid line painting. 2. Solid line - turns paint guns on when held down and off when released.

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  1. Mécanisme (10) pour tracer une ligne (10) et pouvant être fixé sur une extrémité arrière d'un véhicule (20) suivant une direction de déplacement, ledit mécanisme comprenant :
    des moyens de traçage (V, W) ;
    des moyens destinés à l'opérateur dudit véhicule pour choisir et viser arbitrairement un point le long d'une ligne à tracer en avant dudit véhicule ;
    des moyens pour mesurer et mémoriser la distance de retard entre lesdits moyens de traçage et ledit point sélectionné ; et
    des moyens de contrôle desdits moyens de traçage afin d'utiliser ladite distance de retard pour initier une action de traçage avec lesdits moyens de traçage au niveau dudit point sélectionné.
EP02076060A 1996-04-19 1997-04-18 Dispositif remorqué par véhicule pour tracer des lignes de routes Expired - Lifetime EP1229171B1 (fr)

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US15637 1987-02-17
US1563796P 1996-04-19 1996-04-19
US08/838,248 US5947385A (en) 1996-04-19 1997-04-17 Vehicle towed apparatus for striping of roads
US838248 1997-04-17
EP97302673A EP0807714B1 (fr) 1996-04-19 1997-04-18 Dispositif remorqué par véhicule pour tracer de lignes de routes

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