Patent ID: 7572081

Claim:
Paving convoy for producing a bituminous cover layer on a planum, comprising: a self-propelled road paver having an undercarriage and at least one paving screed for producing the bituminous cover layer from paving material; a self-propelled paving material feeding assembly in front of the road paver for supplying the road paver with paving material, said paving material feeding assembly being at a distance to a front end of said road paver; a paving material conveying device extending from said paving material feeding assembly within said distance to said road paver; a spraying device including the components for storing and deploying a bitumen emulsion on said planum as a bitumen emulsion binder layer for the bituminous cover layer, said spraying device being a spraying module having its own undercarriage for traveling on the planum below said material conveying device within said distance and between said paving material feeding assembly and said front end of said road paver, said spraying module having a height lower than the height at which said conveying device extends over said distance from said paving material feeding assembly to said road paver, said spraying module deploying the bitumen emulsion between said material feeding assembly and said road paver, said spraying module being structurally separated from said paving material feeding assembly and said road paver and having a spraying bar attached to said spraying module and facing said front end of said road paver, and one of either a detachable towing connection provided between said spraying module and said paving material feeding assembly or a detachable pushing connection provided between said road paver and said spraying module.