FI58187B - FOERFARANDE FOER FAELLNING AV VARNINGSMAERKEN PAO VAEGYTA ELLER MOTSVARANDE OCH ANORDNING FOER GENOMFOERANDE AV FOERFARANDET - Google Patents

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Patent- och registrerttyrelien Antokin utiagd och utUkriftun publkartd 29.08.80 (32) (33) (31) Requested prefixes — Bejlrd prloritet (71) Salon Automyynti Oy, Turuntie 32, 2U2U0 Salo 2U, Finland-Finland (FI) (72) Risto Ritamäki, Paimio, Finland-'Finland (Fl) (7 ^) Ruska & Co ('; U) Method for laying warning signs on the surface of a road or the like and equipment for implementing the method - Förfarande för fällning av varningsraärken pä vägyta eller motsvarande och anordning för genom-förande av förfarandet

As is known, warning signs are placed on the surface of a road or the like to warn against painting a freshly painted and still undried road or similar road marking, such as a road center line, a lane edge line, and the like. Warning signs are usually conical and are placed by hand at, next to, or near the painting. However, such manual layout of characters is cumbersome and time consuming. The invention presented here means the elimination of these drawbacks.

The invention relates to a method for counting hollow, open and upwardly tapering warning signs, e.g. cone-shaped warning signs, stacked on top of and partially nested in a stack, on the surface of a road or the like and to an apparatus for carrying out the method.

The invention is characterized in particular by the fact that the signs are lowered out of the stack by moving the stent-bearing e.g. plate-like obstacle under the lowest warning sign from its closed position to the side, open position, whereby the lowest warning sign falls off the stack while the upper obstacle the lower obstacle is moved back to its closed position and then the upper obstacle is moved to its open position, the whole stack descending on the lower obstacle 2 58187 and further thereafter the upper obstacle is moved to its closed position, from below below the second warning sign and partly around after moving the lower barrier to the open position again, the operation is continued as described above at appropriate intervals to lower the warning signs from the stack one at a time to the surface of the road or the like, either directly or on a slide, belt or k via a front conveyor or other suitable device known per se.

Without modifying the embodiment of the invention, the accompanying drawings schematically illustrate. In them, Fig. 1 shows the character cone distributor from above and Fig. 2 shows a section from the previous longitudinal line A-A and seen in the direction of the arrows.

Conical warning signs 1, 2, 3 are stacked on top of the tank * t. They are supported by a plate, i.e. a barrier 5, which at 6 is connected to a piston rod 8 protruding from the hydraulic cylinder 7. The piston rod 1Q _ protruding from the hydraulic cylinder 9 is connected at 11 by a fork-like member 12 with arms extending so that the cone 1 fits between them. somewhat above the base of the cone, but support the cone from below with the fork below the cone.

When the barrier 5 is pulled to the right, below the cone 1, by the piston of the hydraulic cylinder 7 and its piston rod 8, as shown in Figure 2, the cone falls out of the stack. It then falls either directly to the desired point on the road surface or is moved from the stack after falling onto the road via a slide, belt conveyor, etc. (not shown in the figure).

The cone 2 and the cones above or above have descended on the obstacle, i.e. the fork 12, in connection with the above-mentioned fall, when the lowest cone 1 supporting them has fallen off.

The barrier 5 is then pushed back to the position shown in Figure 2 and then the fork 12 is pulled out from under the conical stack by the piston and piston rod 10 of the hydraulic cylinder blade 9, lowering the conical stack onto the barrier 5 and then pushing the barrier 12 back to the position shown in Figure 2. again from below including the second cone of the pink. The operation can now continue as described above again to drop the lowest cone out of the stack.

To clarify the drawing, only three cones have been drawn on it, but there may be numerous of them stacked on top of each other, and they may all be dropped individually and at desired intervals from the stack in the above manner.

When the cones in the tank 1 * have been dropped, the adjacent tank 13 containing the cones is moved in its place and the empty tank which has moved away at the obstacles is filled with the cones. In this way, the distribution of the cones can continue without interruption. For the movement of the tanks, they are connected by an arm 1¾ to a shaft 15 which can be driven by its own motor, which can start automatically when the tank at the obstacles is empty and therefore run until the next full tank is at the obstacles.

The containers k, 13 and 16-19 can be, as shown in the drawing, pipes with a rectangular cross-section and open ends. However, their cross-sectional shape can vary freely, and instead of a uniform jacket surface of the container, separate vertical strips, rods, etc. can be used, which, like the containers, prevent the conical bench or the like from tipping over and guide it down.

In order to start and keep the motor rotating the excitation shaft 15 excited, e.g. an air flow can be given, which can flow freely only when there are no cones at the obstacles. The motor rotating the shaft 15 can then be, for example, a compressed air motor.

The warning sign distributor described above can be connected to the rear of a road marking device, the driver of which can start and stop the warning sign distributor as required. The device can then lower the warning signs on the road at regular intervals. The length of the intervals is individually adjustable. When the distribution distance of the characters varies, the device can also be used to calculate the characters at the desired positions one by one.

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Claims (2)

58187 Patent Requirements! A method for individually lowering hollow, bottom-open and upwardly tapering warning signs (e.g., conical warning signs (1, 2) 3) stacked on top of a road or the like, characterized in that the signs are lowered from the stack so that the lowest warning sign (1) the underside, e.g. the plate-like barrier (5) supporting the bench is moved from its closed position to the side, open position, whereby the lowest warning sign (1) falls out of the stack while the upper barrier (12) closest partially below the upper warning sign (2) in this closed position prevents warning signs above it ( 2, 3) falling and then moving the lower barrier (5) back to its closed position and then the upper barrier (12) to its open position, whereby the whole stack descends on the lower barrier (5) and further thereafter the upper barrier (12) is moved to its closed position, from below, below the second warning sign (3) and partly around the lowest sign (2), after which, by moving the lower barrier back to the open position, the operation is continued as described above at suitable intervals to lower the warning signs from the stack one by one to the road or the like, either directly or via a conveyor, belt or chain conveyor or other suitable device known per se. Apparatus for carrying out the method according to claim 1, characterized in that the lower plate-like barrier (5) is rectangular in length and / or width greater than the diameter of the warning sign, e.g. the bottom of the cone (1) and the upper barrier (12). ) is in the form of a fork with a branch spacing smaller than the diameter of the base of the warning sign, e.g. the cone (1), but larger than the diameter of the warning sign between its base and the apex. Apparatus according to Claim 2, characterized in that the obstacles (5, 12) therein are each moved by their own hydraulic blades (7, 9). Apparatus according to claims 2-3, characterized in that it has one or more devices for supporting the warning sign stack, e.g. a device in the form of an upright tube, i.e. a container (b) in which the warning signs are stacked and containers (b, 13. 16, 17, I8, 19) are located on the circumference of a circle with respect to the top, on which they can be moved individually to the obstacles in order to remove the empty container (k) from the warning signs and replace it with another container (13) with warning signs.