Patent ID: 7584902

Claim:
A device carried on a moving vehicle for creating marking lines, which comprise a plurality of elements and are made of a highly viscous marking material, on a surface that is to be marked, comprising: a housing formed by walls; a discharge slot formed in at least one of the walls of the housing and extending transversely to a direction of movement of the vehicle, the discharge slot being limited in extent by a front discharge slot edge and a rear discharge slot edge, seen in the direction of movement of the vehicle; a pressurized material supply line leading to an interior of the housing, a rotary hollow cylinder formed of a jacket located in the interior of the housing and arranged to rotate with the movement of the vehicle carrying the device, the cylinder being provided with a plurality of passages through the jacket, which, depending on a rotary position of the cylinder, establish a connection between the pressurized material supply line and the discharge slot, the rotary cylinder being positioned in the housing with an outer circumferential surface of its jacket spaced at a distance from the walls of the housing and essentially forming a sealing gap only in the area of the discharge slot edges.