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US 2004/0175231 A1Published application
Assembly with a removable bollard
OwnerGeorge S. Realeinventor
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Abstract
A removable bollard is disclosed to control traffic. The present invention includes a post and base for removably receiving the post. The base has a faceplate and a downwardly depending bore. The base can be placed in and secured in the ground, or other surface, preferably with the faceplate at surface level. The faceplate has two locking apertures and the post has one through which a lock can be engaged. The post can be repeatedly inserted into the base and locked into position and, if desired, subsequently removed by unlocking it and pulling it up out of the base.
Claims10
A bollard, comprising:
- a post having an upper post member, rides within said upper post member, a cylindrical member having an upper portion that passes into and is secured by the rides within the upper post member and a lower cylindrical portion that depends from the upper post member,
- a base having a bore for receiving the lower cylindrical portion of said post;
- a plate at the upper portion of said base, said plate having a first aperture in communication with the bore of the base to permit receiving the cylindrical portion of said post by said base, said plate having a first locking aperture and an adjacent second locking aperture;
- an eye cleat proximate the lower end of the upper post member of said post;
- said eye cleat having an eye that can be placed proximate to and in alignment with the second locking aperture of the base plate when the post is mated with the base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.