US 11,585,081 B2Granted

Border security barrier

AssigneeA.H. Beck Foundation Co., Inc.

InventorAugust Henry Beck, III

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Abstract

A security barrier is presented for preventing unauthorized persons or vehicles from easily crossing a border. In one preferred embodiment, the security barrier is suitable for installation in a waterway and comprises: (1) a plurality of piles, each pile having a bottom end embedded into the earth and a top end extending vertically upward; (2) an open security grid juxtaposed between and secured by the piles, wherein the grid preferably has a bottom end that extends downward below the surface between the piles toward the earth; (3) at least one rigid wall panel also juxtaposed between and secured by the piles on top of the open security grid, thereby forming a security barrier that allows water, air, aquatic life, and birds to pass through the barrier, but restricts the movement of humans and vehicles across the barrier.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A border security barrier of modular construction comprising:

an open security grid, the grid having a bottom end, a top end, and a pair of sides, and
a rigid concrete wall panel comprising an upper rigid wall panel portion having a top end, a lower rigid wall panel portion having a bottom end, and two side rigid wall panel portions, said upper, lower, and side rigid wall panel portions being cast together to form said rigid concrete wall panel;
wherein said open security grid is precast and embedded into the rigid concrete wall panel between said upper rigid wall panel portion, two side rigid wall panel portions, and lower rigid wall panel portion forming a single barrier wall section with the open security grid being intermediate to the upper rigid wall panel portion, two side rigid wall panel portions, and lower rigid wall panel portion,
wherein at least the bottom end of the lower rigid wall panel portion is embedded into an earth surface and the rigid concrete wall panel extends generally vertically upward from the earth surface, and
wherein the open security grid comprises steel slats having a square cross sections with four inch thicknesses.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/145,806Filed 11 Jan 2021 · continuation
Priority: 26 Nov 2019
Published: US 2021/0156134 A127 May 2021
Granted: 21 Feb 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

E04B 1/04
Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements: the elements consisting of concrete, e.g. reinforced…
E02D 5/28
Prefabricated piles: made of steel or other metals
E02D 5/30
Prefabricated piles: made of concrete or reinforced concrete or made of steel and concrete
E04H 17/1404
Fences constructed of rigid elements, e.g. with additional wire fillings or with posts: using building blocks, e.g. from concrete or stone