US 5,168,827 AGranted

Signaling device

OwnerWilhelm Junkerinventor

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Abstract

The signaling device (20) has a signaling body (21) and a holding device (22). The signaling body (21) is designed as a cornet-like hollow body which has four wall regions (24; 27) adjoining one another in the circumferential direction, of which two diametrically opposite wall regions (24) form the wide sides of the signaling body (21) and of which the other two likewise diametrically opposite wall regions (27) form the narrow sides of the signaling body (21). The wall regions (27) on the narrow side have the form of a conical shell. The wall regions (24) on the wide side are preferably flat. Between the signaling body (21) and the holding device (22) there is a coupling device (23). The wall regions (27) on the narrow side have above the foot (28) of the signaling body (21) in each case a recess (33; 34), which has a certain height and which extends in the circumferential direction up to the transitional point with the neighboring wall region (24) on the wide side. The holding device may be designed as a base plate (22) for adhesively fixing, as a foot plate for setting up or as a foot bearing bar for setting up and arranging in line a plurality of signaling devices (20).

Claims22

Dependent claims

A signaling device comprising:

a hollow signaling body of resilient molded plastic material having a base with an elongated cross sectional configuration with substantially flat sidewall portions and rounded endwall portions;
a holding device at the base of said signaling device adapted to be placed upon an underlying surface for holding said signaling body in generally upright position, said holding device comprising a plate member;
and
coupling means for connecting said signaling body to said holding device, said coupling device comprising enlarged portions extending along said flat sidewall portions at the base of said signaling body and mating grooves in said plate member for receiving said enlarged portions, said grooves being open at one end so that said enlarged portions can be slid therein to secure said signaling body to said holding device;
and
wherein cutouts of sufficient height are formed in said endwall portions adjacent the base of said signaling body above the level of said holding device, said cutouts being of sufficient size that if said signaling body is struck by a vehicle, said flat sidewall portions can bend smoothly to tip said signaling body without crimping, and when said vehicle is no longer in contact with said signaling body, restoring forces of said resilient plastic material of said sidewall portions with return said signaling body to the upright position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/613,492Filed 31 Oct 1990
Priority: DE 390187323 Jan 1989
Granted: 8 Dec 1992
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

E01F 9/594
Traffic lines: movable for reuse at different locations
E01F 9/588
Traffic lines: lane delineators for physically separating traffic lanes and discouraging but not preventing crossing
E01F 9/629
Self-righting after deflection or displacement: traffic guidance, warning or control posts, bollards, pillars or like upstanding bodies or structures
E01F 9/654
Characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection: in the form of three-dimensional [3D] bodies, e.g.…