Patent ID: 6896444

Claim:
A collated array of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs), comprising: a plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs), wherein each one of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) has an upper surface portion and a bottom surface portion; adhesive means, adapted to be fixedly mounted upon said bottom surface portion of each one of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs), for permitting each one of said bottom surface portions of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) to be fixedly adhered to a pavement surface as a result of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) being serially dispensed and said bottom surface portions of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) being respectively applied onto the pavement surface at predeterminedly spaced positions located along the pavement surface; and a single release sheet to which all of said adhesive means of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) are separably adhered, prior to the serial dispensing and application of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) onto the pavement surface, so as to effectively define, along with said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs), said collated array of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) wherein successive ones of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) are disposed in a nested array with an undersurface portion of one of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) disposed in contact with an upper surface portion of a successive one of said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) such that said plurality of permanent raised pavement markers (RPMs) can be serially dispensed, removed from said single release sheet, and applied onto the pavement surface at predetermined spaced positions along the pavement surface.