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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2002
Paul Joseph Chiron, Box Hill, AU;
Colin William Yob, Rosanna, AU;
Robert Alexander Carnaby, South Grafton, AU;
Potters Industries Inc., Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
Dispensing apparatus ( ) for dispensing reflective elements, such as glass beads ( ), onto a surface, typically a road surface, the apparatus ( ) being attached to a vehicle. The glass beads ( ) are placed in an inlet means ( ) and directed along a path around a drive means ( ), which drive means ( ) imparts a velocity to the glass beads for subsequent delivery onto the surface through an outlet means ( ). The glass beads ( ) exit the outlet means ( ) at a velocity having substantially the same magnitude as the magnitude of velocity at which the vehicle travels and a direction substantially opposite to the direction of travel of the vehicle.