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EP 0043656 A1 19820113 - Reflective road markers.

Title (en)

Reflective road markers.

Title (de)

Rückstrahlende Strassenmarkierung.

Title (fr)

Marqueur de chaussée réfléchissant.

Publication

EP 0043656 A1 19820113 (EN)

Application

EP 81302637 A 19810615

Priority

GB 8022141 A 19800705

Abstract (en)

A road marker for embedding in a road surface (23) has a displaceable reflector unit (11) resiliently carried in a cup-shaped casing (10) on a spherical rubber spring (12). The reflector unit (11) carries uppermost a pair of oppositely-facing reflective elements (14) disposed back-to-back and inclined at low angles to the horizontal. The reflective elements (14), in the upper biassed position of the reflector unit (11), protrude above the upper rim (17) of the casing (10). A pair of guard shoulders (45) disposed on the reflector unit (11) flank the pair of reflective elements (14), and protrude above adjacent parts of those elements (14), so that when a vehicle tyre rolls over the marker, depression of the shoulders (45) by the tyre displaces the reflective elements (14) away from the tyre and thereby reduces the extent or degree of physical contact of the tyre with the exposed surfaces of the reflective elements (14). The shoulders (45) preferably incorporate metal reinforcement members to protect the shoulders (45) against non-rolling oblects which slide over the marker, and the reflector unit (11) has apertures through which jets of air/water are expelled from the casing (10) when the reflector unit (11) is depressed by a tyre.

IPC 1-7

E01F 9/06

IPC 8 full level

E01F 9/07 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

E01F 9/571 (2016.02)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

BE CH DE FR GB IT LI NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0043656 A1 19820113

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 81302637 A 19810615