Abstract:
A new method for producing retro-reflecting assemblies of the type comprising a transparent globule having an essentially part-spherical upper portion uncoated for light impingement, and a lower portion associated to a monolayer of focusing and reflective microspheres, the method comprising forming said globule by subjecting a sheet thermoplastic material to heat and pressure in the bite of counter-rotating forming rollers to provide an essentially planar intermediate product having oppositely located bulges at either faces thereof, the globules being obtained by subdividing said product in parts each comprising a pair of opposite bulges. The invention comprises improved assemblies comprising each an asymmetrical globule having the monolayer of microspheres associated to its essentially bottom face and to its peripheral toroidal side face of radius of curvature smaller than that of its upper bulging portion exposed for light impingement.
Abstract:
There is described a method for road surface marking with tape material, including the steps of applying a thin layer of an essentially liquid hydrophilous wetting agent on said surface, of forming an essentially bituminous primer layer thereon, and then pressingly laying a prefabricated tape material on said primer layer, such being formed with an essentially thermoplastic composition containing at least 60 % by weight of solid thermoplastic substances fluidified for intimately contacting the road surface, capable of fastly solidify at least to 10.sup.3 - 10.sup.4 cP for receiving the tape material, then up to at least 10.sup.5 cP to provide a bond of the tape to said surface capable to resist to horizontal stress of at least 1.5 kg/cm within 30 seconds, and further harden at ambient temperature to resist to a stress of at least 3 kg/cm. There are also described devices for applying such composition and tape and for melting the said solid thermoplastic substances.
Abstract translation:描述了一种用带材料进行路面标记的方法,包括以下步骤:在所述表面上施加基本上液体的亲水性润湿剂的薄层,在其上形成基本上沥青的底漆层,然后将预制的带材料压在 所述底漆层由基本上热塑性的组合物形成,所述组合物含有至少60重量%的流化的固体热塑性物质,用于紧密接触路面,能够快速固化至少103-104cP以接收胶带材料,然后向上 至少105cP,以在30秒内提供能够抵抗至少1.5kg / cm 2的水平应力的所述表面的粘合,并且在环境温度下进一步硬化以抵抗至少3kg / cm 3的应力 。 还描述了用于施加这种组合物和胶带并熔化所述固体热塑性物质的装置。
Abstract:
The disclosure describes, in the upwardly facing surface of a layer of material forming a traffic-regulating indicium on a road pavement, a reflective system consisting of a plurality of reflex-reflective aggregates consisting each of a main element of polymeric transparent material, partially embedded in said layer and having a convex portion projecting upwardly of said surface and having an index of refraction such that rays impinging said exposed portion at large angles of incidence are at least partially refracted into said element, said each aggregate further comprising a transparent binder substance contacting other portions of said element, said each aggregate still further comprising a monolayer of transparent beads contacting the and partially embedded into said transparent binder, having part-spherical surfaces facing away from said other portions of said element and a reflective coating provided over said part-spherical surfaces, the index of refraction n.sub.1 of said main element being from 1.45 and 1.68, the index of refraction n.sub.3 of said beads being from 1.60 and 1.95, and the ratio n.sub.3 /n.sub.2 of the index of refraction of said beads and of said binder being from 1.135 to 1.385, the total transparency efficiency of the system being greater than 0.1 when said exposed portion are impinged by light rays not less than 80.degree. .
Abstract:
A new method for producing retro-reflecting assemblies of the type comprising a transparent globule having an essentially part-spherical upper portion uncoated for light impingement, and a lower portion associated to a monolayer of focusing and reflective microspheres, the method comprising forming said globule by subjecting a sheet thermoplastic material to heat and pressure in the bite of counter-rotating forming rollers to provide an essentially planar intermediate product having oppositely located bulges at either faces thereof, the globules being obtained by subdividing said product in parts each comprising a pair of opposite bulges. The invention comprises improved assemblies comprising each an asymmetrical globule having the monolayer of microspheres associated to its essentially bottom face and to its peripheral toroidal side face of a radius of curvature smaller than that of its upper bulging portion exposed for light impingement.
Abstract:
An improved retroreflective structure designed to be associated to a roadway pavement principally for improving nighttime visibility of traffing regulating signs and areas, formed from selectively dividing a primary calandered and printed material, the structure including interconnected and cooperating retroreflectore arranged for defining said signs and areas.
Abstract:
A prefabricated road surface marking tape material consisting of a factory prefabricated and assembled structure comprising a tape component and a plurality of retroreflective sheltered elements bulging above said tape, spacedly distributed lengthwise of the tape, and secured thereon in a such position that the light emitted by headlamps of a vehicle travelling on the road in the direction of the tape and impinging on said reflective means comprised in each element, will be retroreflected in form of a relatively narrow beam of light precisely directed towards the driver of the vehicle, for improved nighttime visibility of the sign.
Abstract:
An improved multi-layer surface marking tape material for use on roadway pavements so as to provide a traffic regulating indicium thereon, and having an anti-skid and wear-resisting upper layer and a lower primer layer for connecting the material to said pavement, the new multi-layer tape material comprising further an intermediate relatively thin, pliable, essentially inextensible and tensionally resistant intermediate layer compatible with and intimately connected to both said layers for distributing and transferring over a large primer layer-roadway pavement interfacial area horizontally directed stresses tangentially applied to said anti-skid upper layer at localized upper layer-vehicle wheel treads interfacial areas.
Abstract:
A traffic safety aid consists of a prefabricated essentially flexible marking tape material which is adapted to be laid on and adhesively secured to a roadway surface, at predetermined locations which are to be detected and identified at a distance by a driver of a vehicle. The tape material has an upper face, a plurality of protrusions spaced lengthwise of the upper face. Each protrusion has the capability of emitting visible light when energy is applied thereto. Each protruse may contain a luminescent substance adapted to emit visible energy when excited by invisible or not visible radiations, or electric sources adapted to emit visible light when electric energy is applied through insulated leads pre-arranged in the tape material.
Abstract:
A light retroreflective system comprises a primary focusing transparent body having an exposed surface adapted to project externally of the surface of a sign forming material and operative for refracting and focusing light beams impinging on portions of said exposed surface, and a reflecting arrangement adjacent to areas below said sign surface and where said beams are focused. The exposed surface has, in its cross-sections in planes perpendicular to said sign surface, portions adjacent to the sign surface having radii or curvature smaller than half of the distance between the portions and the locations below the sign surface wherein the refracted beams focus, so that a proper focalization is ensured within said primary body, the primary body consisting of a transparent material the index of refraction of which is considerably lower than 1.9.
Abstract:
There is described a retro-reflecting element of generally globular configuration adapted to retro-reflect a ray of light back along its own incident path, when impinged by grazing light on a part-spherical portion of its surface, bulging above the surface of a support layer wherein such element is partially embedded. The new element comprises an essentially optically homogeneous body forming said part-spherical portion and provided, on its remaining surface, with a plurality of closely spaced inwardly concave and reflective part-spherical small bowls capable of sending back, by multiple reflections totalling 180.degree., light rays impinging on said bulging part-spherical portion and refracted therethrough within said body towards any of said bowls. There is also described a method for making said element.