Patent ID: 6619755
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: E01C,E01H

Abstract:
Wheeled apparatus, adapted to be attached to an automotive roadwork vehicle so as to be movable along with the automotive roadwork vehicle as the automotive roadwork vehicle moves over a roadway surface, for automatically removing pavement markers from a roadway surface, comprising:a platform; at least one wheel assembly rotatably mounted upon said platform for rollably supporting said platform upon the roadway surface upon which the plurality of pavement markers, to be removed, are disposed; means disposed upon said platform for permitting said platform to be attached to an automotive roadwork vehicle such that said apparatus can be movable along with the automotive roadwork vehicle as the automotive roadwork vehicle moves over the roadway surface; at least one cutter implement mounted beneath said platform so as to be disposed at a predetermined position above the roadway surface in order to enable said at least one cutter implement to engage pavement markers fixedly mounted upon the roadway surface and sever the pavement markers from the roadway surface; a drive motor mounted upon said platform and having a motor drive operatively connected to said at least one cutter implement so as to drive said at least one cutter implement for the performance of a cutting operation; an exhaust port defined within said platform through which severed pavement marker debris can be exhausted; and a suction blower mounted upon said platform and fluidically connected to said exhaust port so as to remove severed pavement marker debris severed by said at least one cutter implement.