Road safety barrier
OwnerPasquale Impero, Luigi Grassiainventors
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Abstract
A road safety barrier has a plurality of panels flanking one another at respective vertical lateral edges thereof, made of a material deformable upon impact by a vehicle, and a plurality of vertical support elements supporting the panels. The vertical support elements include a first and a second vertical support member facing one another at the flanked vertical lateral edges of the panels, on opposite sides with respect to two major faces of the panels. The barrier has components for reciprocally blocking the first and the second vertical support member to the two opposite faces of the panels, and longitudinal stiffening elements coupled to the panels at respective upper longitudinal edges thereof.
Claims14
A road safety barrier, comprising:
- a plurality of containing elements for absorbing an impact by a vehicle;
- a plurality of vertical support elements for bearing the plurality of containing elements;
- wherein:
- the containing elements are constituted by panels arranged flanked to one another at respective vertical lateral edges in such a way that respective two faces form respective continuous flat surfaces, with each of the panels being made of a material that is deformable consequent upon an impact by a vehicle, so as to absorb kinetic energy generated by the impact,
- each of the vertical support elements comprises a first vertical support member and a second vertical support member arranged facing one another at the flanked vertical lateral edges of the panels, on opposite sides with respect to the two faces of the panels, the first vertical support member and the second vertical support member of each of the vertical support elements being conformed in such a way as to have flat portions for coupling with the faces of the panels and with at least one from between the first vertical support member and the second vertical support member being conformed in such a way as to have a main portion, between the two flat portions, having a cavity along a respective vertical extension or dimension,
- blocking means, conformed for crossing the panels and the flat portions of the first vertical support member and the second vertical support member, for the reciprocal blocking of the first vertical support member and the second vertical support member of each of the vertical support elements to the two opposite faces of the panels at the respective vertical lateral edges,
- longitudinal stiffening elements which are coupled to the panels at the respective upper longitudinal edges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.