| 摘要 |
The apparatus comprises a chamber 4 for storing road cones 5 and a delivery system for picking up a cone from the chamber and placing it on a roadway or picking up a cone of the road and placing it back in the chamber. The apparatus is preferably in the form of a road vehicle 1 with the enclosure being a chamber that forms part of the vehicle. The enclosed chamber may have at least one aperture at one end, adjacent the rear of the vehicle, through which cones may be dispensed or retrieved. The chamber may include a number of elongate compartments 4A-E for storing cones that each have an aperture. The delivery means preferably includes a first handling device 8 adjacent a conveyor 9 that has a first end adjacent the chamber and a second end adjacent the roadway, with the first handling device acting to move cones between the chamber and conveyor and visa versa, while a second handling device acts to move cones between the road and the conveyor when collecting cones. The conveyor may be adapted to swivel from a first position where it trails behind a vehicle to place cones to a second position where the conveyor faces forwards towards the front of the vehicle to collect cones. |
