Composition and system for preformed thermoplastic road marking with sequential features
View Patent ↗The present disclosure describes preformed pre-bonded thermoplastic sections comprising smaller articles where the articles and sections have planar top surfaces and planar bottom surfaces that are coplanar to each other. There is also an adhesive backing layer on the coplanar bottom surfaces so that the adhesive backing layer bridges and bonds coplanar bottom surfaces to form unified pre-bonded thermoplastic signage thereby preventing dislodging or separation of the signage during handling, movement, and/or transportation before or during application of the pre-bonded signage. The articles when properly sequenced, matched, and combined, together makeup the sections such that when the sections are also sequenced and matched the sections combine to form thermoplastic signage with a final pattern wherein the planar top surfaces include sequential features necessary to visibly aid in quick assembly of one or more unified thermoplastic signages.
1. Preformed pre-bonded thermoplastic sections comprising smaller articles; said preformed thermoplastics consisting of; articles and sections are consisting of planar top surfaces and planar bottom surfaces that are coplanar to each other, and further consisting of an adhesive backing layer on said coplanar bottom surfaces, said adhesive backing layer bridging and bonding said coplanar bottom surface to form unified pre-bonded thermoplastic signage thereby preventing dislodging and/or separation of said signage during handling, movement, and/or transportation before or during application of said pre-bonded signage and wherein said articles when properly sequenced, matched, and combined, together comprise said sections such that when said sections are also sequenced and matched said sections combine to form thermoplastic signage with a final pattern wherein said planar top surfaces include sequential features necessary to visibly aid in quick assembly of one or more unified thermoplastic signages wherein said thermoplastic sections include road marking materials, reflective materials, friction materials, and at least one visible temperature indicator, whereby during heating of said thermoplastic marking grid said predetermined temperature may be visibly indicated, wherein said articles consist of at least one said alphanumeric slit as a sequential feature as an indicator for assembly and abutting said articles into said sections and for assembly and abutting said sections into said unified thermoplastic signages and wherein said alphanumeric slit is also a temperature indicator visibly indicating when said predetermined temperature is attained.
2. The preformed pre-bonded thermoplastic sections of claim 1 , wherein said sections include a group consisting of; a marking grid, a plurality of inserts, and an insert pattern each of said inserts separated by said grid.
3. A method of making preformed pre-bonded thermoplastic sections comprising smaller articles that include a thermoplastic marking grid substrate consisting of; road marking materials, reflective materials, friction materials, and at least one visible temperature indicator, whereby during heating of said thermoplastic marking grid a predetermined temperature is visibly indicated during adherence to a paved surface and wherein said visible temperature indicator consists of at least one indent, dimple, bump, and alphanumeric slit disposed in the surface of said thermoplastic sections and wherein said articles of said sections comprises at least one said alphanumeric slit as a sequential feature as an indicator for assembly and abutting said articles into said sections and for assembly and abutting said sections into said unified thermoplastic signages and wherein said alphanumeric slit is also a temperature indicator visibly indicating when said predetermined temperature is attained.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said sections are from the group consisting of a marking grid, a plurality of inserts and an insert pattern such that each of said inserts is separated by said grid.