Pavement marker

Claim 1

A raised plowable pavement marker comprising a hardened steel inverted cup-shaped member including a base and a full surrounding circular depending skirt, said skirt having means to hold the marker to a pavement with the skirt embedded, a diametric ridge on the base rising above the base and presenting a convex edge for a plow to ride over, first and second members each having a convex edge, rising above the base, said first and second members being generally at right angles to said diametric ridge an being located at opposite ends of said diametric ridge respectively, said first and second members each having a surface extending laterally on opposite sides of said diametric ridge, said surface rising from a peripheral edge portion of said inverted cup-shaped member and merging with said diametric ridge in the longitudinal direction of said ridge and forming a symetrical transverse arch rising from said base on opposite sides of said diametric ridge to a peak coinciding with the top of said diametric ridge, said diametric ridge and said first and second members together with said base forming a pair of recesses on opposite sides of said diametric ridge, said recesses each having an open side opposite said diametric ridge between said first and second members, said base between said first and second members on opposite sides of said diametric ridge being substantially flat, at least one elongated reflector secured to said bases and located in one of said recesses alongside and substantially parallel with said diametric ridge, said first and second members at the ends of said diametric ridge serving to protect the market and reflector from a snowplow traveling in a direction normal to said diametric ridge.