Patent ID: 6685389
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: E01C,E01H

Abstract:
Apparatus, adapted to be attached to a roadwork vehicle so as to be movable along with the roadwork vehicle as the roadwork vehicle moves over a roadway surface, for automatically removing protective coverings from the normally vertically upstanding leg members of flexible pavement markers secured to a roadway surface, comprising:a platform; at least one toothed implement mounted beneath said platform so as to be located at a predetermined position above the roadway surface so as not to be engaged with the roadway surface and yet be engageable with the protective coverings of the pavement markers fixedly mounted upon the roadway surface so as to remove the protective coverings from the pavement markers as the roadwork vehicle moves over a roadway surface; an exhaust port defined within said platform through which removed pavement marker protective covering debris can be exhausted; and a suction blower mounted upon said platform and fluidly connected to said exhaust port so as to exhaust pavement marker protective covering debris removed by said at least one toothed implement.