Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish maps and boundaries for ownership, locations, such as building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, or other purposes required by government or civil law, such as property sales. Additionally, surveying is an important tool for research in many scientific disciplines.
Surveyors use many tools, such as total stations, GNSS receivers, theodolite, 3D scanners, radios, handheld tablets, subsurface locators, drones, GIS, surveying software, surveying rod, and others. GPS systems have increased the speed of surveying. The present invention relates to the GPS survey rod.
The invention includes a GPS survey rod, a cylindrical paint canister fitted in the bottom half of the rod, a GPS collector, a trigger on the top half, and a paint tip. There are three holes in the tip of the rod to expel the paint. This product is made of aluminum or carbon fiber, a very light weight yet durable material. Specially designed paint cans and conventional paint cans are used in this device. This tool will allow the user to be more efficient by merging two jobs and devices into one.
The disclosed survey marking rod includes a top part having a top end and a bottom end and a paint can activation lever and at least one GPS (global positioning system) mount attached thereto. The disclosure also includes a bottom part comprising a top end and a bottom end and configured to receive a paint can wherein the bottom end of the top part mates with the top end of the bottom part. The disclosure additionally includes a linkage between the activation lever and the bottom part configured to depress a nozzle of the paint can in response to a depression of the activation lever. The disclosure further includes a paint tip immediately adjacent the bottom end of the bottom part and comprising a plurality of jet holes for an egress of paint from the paint can onto a marking surface for a survey.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
A rover is a GPS receiver located on a pole or tripod which is moved around from point to point for the purpose of locating evidence or setting points. It normally receives correction data from a reference station in surveying. A collector receives survey information from the rover. Position correctional data is transmitted from a GPS receiver at a fixed and known station to a rover such that the rover can calculate a more accurate position that it would have without the correctional data.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein in a non-provisional specification to follow.
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