Road structure – process – or apparatus – Pavement
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-02
2002-07-23
Will, Thomas B. (Department: 3673)
Road structure, process, or apparatus
Pavement
C404S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06422784
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member and more particularly pertains to a new plate support device for use during road repairs for creating a smooth transition from the road to the plate member.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member is known in the prior art. More specifically, a temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,917,531; U.S. Pat. No. 5,308,188; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 353,071; U.S. Pat. No. 4,187,647; U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,110; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,426,659.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new plate support device for use during road repairs. The inventive device includes a support member having a bottom wall and a plurality of tapered side walls with each side wall having an outer top surface, an outer lower surface, and an outer intermediate surface which is slanted at an angle relative to the top surface and lower surface thus forming a ramp portion. The bottom wall has a plurality of holes therein, which include a first set of holes and a second set of holes which is larger than the first set of, holes for fastening the support member and plate member to the road.
In these respects, the plate support device for use during road repairs according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of creating a smooth transition from the road to the plate member.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new plate support device for use during road repairs construction wherein the same can be utilized for creating a smooth transition from the road to the plate member.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which has many of the advantages of the temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new plate support device for use during road repairs which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a support member having a bottom wall and a plurality of tapered side walls with each side wall having an outer top surface, an outer lower surface, and an outer intermediate surface which is slanted at an angle relative to the top surface and lower surface thus forming a ramp portion. The bottom wall has a plurality of holes therein, which include a first set of holes and a second set of holes which is larger than the first set of holes for fastening the support member and plate member to the road.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which has many of the advantages of the temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new plate support device for use during road repairs which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art temporary device for creating a smooth transition from the road across the plate member, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such plate support device for use during road repairs economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs for creating a smooth transition from the road to the plate member.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new plate support device for use during road repairs which includes a support member having a bottom wall and a plurality of tapered side walls with each side wall having an outer top surface, an outer lower surface, and an outer intermediate surface which is slanted at an angle relative to the top surface and lower surface thus forming a ramp portion. The bottom wall has a plurality of holes therein, which include a first set of holes and a second set of holes which is larger than the first set of holes for fast
Pellegrino Richard
Reynolds Melvin
Pechhold Alexandra K.
Will Thomas B.
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