Patent ID: 8807866

Claim:
Method of laying a compacted finishing layer of uncompacted paving material, on a substructure, with a road finisher having a screed including at least two stroke drives and at least two tamper strips arranged one behind the other in the transverse direction and in front of a smoothing plate, which comprises moving the screed in the working direction by floating the screed on a previously laid paving material, operating each tamper strip using an individually selectable stroke and using an individually selectable frequency for each tamper strip to pre-compact at least the finishing layer, the thickness and/or laying rate of the finishing layer varying transversely to the working direction of the road finisher, varying the stroke and/or the frequency of the tamper over the pavement width while laying is in progress, superficially smoothing the pre-compacted finishing layer with the smoothing plate, and matching the compacting stroke of each tamper strip to the locally varying paving thickness and/or pavement laying rate by remotely controlling the stroke of each tamper strip within the pavement width.