A barrier
AssigneeSaferoads Pty Ltd
InventorDarren Hotchkin
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Abstract
An elongate barrier (3) comprises an outer shell in an elongate lower section of the barrier that defines a cavity (11) that receives and contains a pourable settable ballast material when the barrier is being manufactured. The barrier also comprises a solid block (15) of a ballast material in the cavity formed from the pourable settable ballast material.
Claims27
An elongate barrier that comprises:
- (a) an outer shell in an elongate lower section of the barrier that defines a cavity that receives and contains a pourable settable ballast material when the barrier is being manufactured;
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- (b) a solid block of a ballast material in the cavity formed from the pourable settable ballast material.
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The barrier defined in claim 8 wherein the end walls of the outer shell are formed as separate components and are connected, such as by welding, to the base wall and side walls of the outer shell.
The barrier defined in claim 11 wherein the box beam section is formed by folding a sheet of steel strip/plate along the length of the sheet to form the box beam section with a required transverse cross-section.
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The method defined in claim 23 wherein step (a) comprises forming an upper structural element of the barrier by folding, such as by roll-forming, a sheet of steel strip/plate along the length of the sheet to form a box beam section with a required transverse cross-section.
The method defined in claim 23 comprises forming the base wall and the side walls of the outer shell from two separate mirror-image components and connecting the components together, forming the end walls of the outer shell as separate components, and connecting the end walls to opposite ends of the base wall and side walls to form the outer shell.
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The method defined in claim 26 comprises forming each of the two components of the base wall and side walls by folding, such as by roll-forming, a sheet of steel strip/plate along the length of the sheet to form one half of the base wall and one of the side walls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.