Concrete pavement texturing head
View Patent ↗The present disclosure presents a substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head. The pavement texturing head can include a plurality of substantially round, disc-shaped grinding members adjacently arranged and substantially aligned, one with the others, along a common rotational center axis. Additionally, the grinding members establish a circumferential grinding zone around the pavement texturing head. Furthermore, the grinding zone includes a plurality of grinding segments collectively forming an exterior surface around the substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head and having an exposed peripheral profile taken parallel to the common rotational center axis comprising undulating ridges and troughs.
1. A substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head comprising:
a plurality of substantially round, disc-shaped grinding members adjacently arranged and substantially aligned, one with the each other, along a common rotational center axis;
said grinding members establishing a circumferential grinding zone around the pavement texturing head, said substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head having an average diameter of at least eight inches and a length measured along the common rotational center axis; and
said grinding zone comprising a plurality of grinding segments, coupled to the grinding members, collectively forming an exterior surface around the substantially cylindrically-shaped pavement texturing head and said plurality of grinding segments having an exposed peripheral profile taken parallel to the common rotational center axis comprising undulating ridges and troughs and wherein an average distance between peaks of adjacent ridges ranges from about 0.04 to about 0.2 inches.
2. The pavement texturing head as recited in claim 1 , wherein the exposed peripheral profile taken parallel to the common rotational center axis and comprising undulating ridges and troughs is substantially sinusoidally shaped.
3. The pavement texturing head as recited in claim 1 , wherein an average difference in radial height between adjacent ridge peaks and trough valleys measures from about 0.02 to about 0.1 inches.
4. The pavement texturing head as recited in claim 1 , wherein said circumferential grinding zone around the pavement texturing head extends along a substantial majority of the length of the texturing head.
5. The pavement texturing head as recited in claim 1 , wherein the materials of construction of the grinding segments have a higher concentration of diamond particulate in the region of ridge peaks and in area in a substantially radial direction beneath the ridge peaks as compared to that of the trough valleys and in a substantially radial direction beneath the trough valleys.