Patent ID: 7150413

Claim:
A spray nozzle assembly for a line marker having a support arm extending along an axis, which comprises: (a) a mounting bracket carried on the support arm; (b) a spray nozzle carried on the mounting bracket with a tip of the spray nozzle facing downwardly towards a horizontal surface to spray marking material in a line on the horizontal surface as the line marker moves over the horizontal surface; (c) a pair of side shields carried on the mounting bracket with the side shields being generally parallel to one another, arranged on opposite sides of the spray nozzle, and having lower edges arranged below the spray nozzle tip to help confine the marking material exiting from the spray nozzle tip; and (d) wherein the spray nozzle is vertically adjustable on the mounting bracket to move the spray nozzle tip towards and away from the lower edges of the side shields.