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AssigneeTraffix Devices, Inc.
InventorsJack H. Kulp, Geoffrey B. Maus, Felipe Almanza, Christopher A. Jaime
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Molded plastic barrier segments, typically water or sand-ballasted, are engineered to be attached together, end-to-end, in a barrier array, with innovative features which result in low rotation between attached barrier segments. Such a low rotation barrier array will, upon impact by a vehicle, act as a re-directive barrier, rather than a capturing barrier, which is an important safety feature in some crash scenarios, particularly with respect to more recent safety specifications required by many governmental highway agencies.
A hollow barrier segment which is fillable with a ballasting material for use in assembling an array of hollow barrier segments attached end-to-end to form a barrier wall, the barrier segment comprising:
An array of hollow, fillable barrier segments adjoined end-to-end, each of the array of barrier segments comprising a molded plastic container having outer walls defining an interior volume and having a first end and a second end, a plurality of connecting lugs disposed on each of said first and second ends, the outer walls of each barrier segment comprising side walls which extend beyond each of the first and second ends, to form a recess between the extended side walls on each of the first and second ends, a plurality of vertically spaced connecting lugs being disposed in each recess;
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