Modular securing device and process of laying such a device
OwnerGabriel Bruyere, Pierre-Marie Garel +1inventors
InventorsGabriel Bruyere, Pierre-Marie Garel, Didier Peyrard
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Abstract
A modular securing device comprises a set of elongated elements intended to be laid on the road and connected together at their ends. Each of the elements is provided at one of its ends with a male linking member and at the other end with a female linking member, the linking members being shaped in order to engage into one another only long enough for two successive elongated elements to be in a first relative position and to be prevented from being separated long enough for both these elements to be in a second relative position. A process of laying such a device is described.
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A modular securing device, for road tracks, comprising a set of elements (1, 1A) elongated along a longitudinal axis and intended to be laid on a road and connected together at their ends (2, 3), each of the elements (1, 1A) containing two end faces (111, 131) spaced apart longitudinally, one of the end faces (111) being fitted with a male linking means (5) and the other end face (131) being fitted with a female linking means (4), the male and female linking means (5, 4) being shaped to engage into one another when laying the elongated elements, characterised in that the male and female linking means (5, 4) are shaped, in a first relative position of two elongated elements (1, 1A), to enable insertion of the male linking element (5) of one of both these elongated elements into the female linking element (4) of the other of both these elongated elements and, in a second relative position of two elongated elements (1, 1A), to prevent these elongated elements from being separated.
A device according to any of the previous claims, characterised in that the female linking means (4) consists of several openings and in that the male linking means (5) consists of several hooking elements, the number of hooking elements (5) being equal to the number of openings (4).
A device according to any of the previous claims, characterised in that, when the elongated elements (1) are in their second relative position, the female (4) and male (5) linking elements form a link showing a clearance along the longitudinal axis.
A device according to any of the previous claims, characterised in that the female linking means (4) comprises three openings and in that the male linking means (5) comprises three hooking elements.
A device according to any of the previous claims, characterised in that each of the elongated elements (1, 1A) is provided, on one face (8) whereby it rests on the road, with means (9) increasing the adherence to the elongated element (1, 1A) on the road.
A device according to any of the previous claims, characterised in that it reaches at least the securing level BT4 according to the French standard XP P98453 or any corresponding level of another standard.
Process of laying a modular securing device, for road tracks, comprising a set of elements (1, 1A) elongated along a longitudinal axis and intended to be laid on a road and connected together at their ends (2, 3), each of the elements (1, 1A) containing two end faces (111, 131) spaced apart longitudinally, one of the end faces (111) being fitted with a male linking means (5) and the other end face (131) being fitted with a female linking means (4), the male and female linking means (5, 4) being shaped to engage into one another when laying the elongated elements, the process comprising successive steps for laying an elongated element (1) and a following elongated element (1A) until a preset length of modular securing device is obtained and being characterised in that, at each step, an elongated element (1A) is transported towards an elongated element (1) already placed, in a first relative position with respect to the elongated element (1) already placed to enable insertion of the male linking means (5) into the female linking means (4), and then placed in a second relative position with respect to the elongated element (1) already placed to prevent these elongated elements from being separated (1, 1A).
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