top extension 40a on brace bar 40 is slot pinned through a pin 40b to a lug 40c on the standard 16 fig2 the brace bar 40 further stabilizes the two rather critical tape slides 32 but the springiness in the slides and the top slot pinned connection of the brace bar 40 allows for some limited movement or self adjustment of the slides to prevent tearing of the striping tape the operation of the apparatus during the practice of the method is as follows the pavement marking or striping tape rolls 18 are mounted on the spools 19 of spindle 17 as shown in the drawings the plastic or paper striping tapes 41 are initially threaded by hand through the guide loops 33 and over the forward faces of the profiled slides 32 until the leading ends of the tapes can be introduced to the nip 42 fig4 between the pavement roller 11 and the pavement p the customary paper backing 43 on the tapes 41 is initially threaded by hand onto the spools 21 of the second spindle 20 behind the spindle 17 following this initial preparation the rolling machine 10 is driven forwardly in the usual manner to produce the final rolling of the paving material such as fresh hot asphalt and in so doing the striping tape 41 is automatically fed downwardly along the slides 32 as shown by the arrow in fig4 and is pressed by the pavement roller 11 on and into the paving material in one smooth continuous operation for the necessary length of pavement to be striped or marked with tape the unique feature of the method is that the movement of the roller 11 during the normal final rolling of the pavement feeds or pulls the tapes.