Patent ID: 8056549

Claim:
A substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head comprising: a plurality of substantially round, disc-shaped grinding members adjacently arranged and substantially aligned, one with the each other, along a common rotational center axis; said grinding members establishing a circumferential grinding zone around the pavement texturing head, said substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head having an average diameter of at least eight inches and a length measured along the common rotational center axis; and said grinding zone comprising a plurality of grinding segments, coupled to the grinding members, collectively forming an exterior surface around the substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head and said plurality of grinding segments having an exposed peripheral profile taken parallel to the common rotational center axis comprising undulating ridges and troughs and wherein an average distance between peaks of adjacent ridges ranges from about 0.04 to about 0.2 inches.