Patent ID: 6902348
Filing Date: 2005-06-07
Classification: E01F

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for serially dispensing and applying a collated array of pavement markers onto a pavement surface, comprising: means for forming a collated, serial, nested array of pavement markers, comprising a plurality of pavement markers respectively having upper surface portions and undersurface portions, wherein said plurality of pavement markers are adhered upon a single release sheet, at predeterminedly spaced positions located along said single release sheet, by means of a block of adhesive material which is fixedly secured to said undersurface portion of each one of said plurality of pavement markers and which is separable from said single release sheet so as to fixedly adhere each one of said plurality of pavement markers to a pavement surface when said plurality of pavement markers are individually applied onto the pavement surface, and wherein further, successive ones of said plurality of pavement markers are disposed in a nested array with an undersurface portion of one of said plurality of pavement markers disposed in contact with an upper surface portion of a successive one of said plurality of pavement markers; and means for repetitively causing leading ones of said plurality of pavement markers, defining said collated, serial, nested array of pavement markers disposed upon said single release sheet, to be separated and removed from said single release sheet, and from the remaining ones of said plurality of pavement markers forming said collated, serial, nested array of pavement markers disposed upon said single release sheet, and for repetitively applying said separated and removed leading ones of said plurality of pavement markers to predeterminedly spaced positions located along the pavement surface, whereby said plurality of pavement markers are dispensed and applied to the predeterminedly spaced positions located along the pavement surface so as to form a serial array of said plurality of pavement markers upon the pavement surface.