US 12,134,865 B2
Road construction machine with air barrier device and method
Klaus Oettinger, Altlussheim (DE); Bastian Fleischer, Waghaeusel (DE); Tobias Boellert, Kaiserslautern (DE); Daniel Draxler, Mannheim (DE); Ingo Herzberg, Angelbachtal (DE); Maximilian Theobald, Ludwigshafen (DE); Thomas Seither, Waldsee (DE); Frank Grimm, Edingen-Neckarhausen (DE); Helmut Kessler, Kaiserslautern (DE); Johannes Pontius, Schmelz (DE); Stefan Weber, Roedersheim-Gronau (DE); and Bernhard Erdtmann, Edingen Neckarhausen (DE)
Assigned to Joseph Voegele AG, Ludwigshafen/Rhein (DE)
Filed by JOSEPH VOEGELE AG, Ludwigshafen/Rhein (DE)
Filed on May 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/749,967.
Claims priority of application No. 21174880 (EP), filed on May 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0372715 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. E01C 19/48 (2006.01)
CPC E01C 19/48 (2013.01) [E01C 2301/50 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A method for generating an air flow during operation of a road construction machine configured as a road paver or a feeder vehicle for a road paver, the method comprising generating, by a first air barrier device of the road construction machine, at least one directed air flow in a form of an air wall extending within an area present laterally of and adjacent to an operating platform of the road construction machine when viewed from above, and/or generating, by a second air barrier device, at least one directed air flow in a form of an air wall extending within an area present laterally of and adjacent to an external control station of the road construction machine when viewed from above.