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US 5,208,585 AGranted
Highway barrier for traffic control
OwnerR. Paul Spragueinventor
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A portable highway barrier constructed of light weight material has an interior cavity which can be filled with a fluid ballast once it has been transported to a utilization site. The barrier has a box-like configuration defined by vertically-oriented side and end walls, the bottom portion of which is constructed to provide vertically-oriented slots each of which may function to support the lower edge of a vertically-oriented highway sign. The upwardly extending walls of a shallow well formed in the top of the barrier have apertures therein for facilitating attachment to the barrier of highway signs and/or other signalling or control devices such as warning lights. The barrier construction provides for attachment of connecting elements to its end walls so as to enable interconstruction of a plurality of barriers in end to end relationship for traffic channelization.
A highway barrier comprising a hollow box-like element adapted for temporary placement on a surface in an upright position for traffic signalling and channelization, said element being constructed of a resilient plastic material and having a rectangular cross-sectional configuration defined by a pair of parallel vertically-oriented end walls and a pair of generally vertically-oriented sidewalls integrally joined at opposite ends to said end walls, and top and bottom walls integrally joined to said side and end walls, a bottom portion of said box-like element being constructed to provide vertically-oriented slots exteriorly of, coextensive with and parallel to at least each side wall, each of which slots is dimensioned to accept and support a traffic sign in an upright position.
A portable hollow highway barrier comprising a box-like element adapted for temporary placement on a surface in an upright position for traffic control and channelization, said element being constructed of a resilient plastic material and having an upper portion of rectangular cross-sectional configuration defined by a pair of vertically-oriented side walls, a pair of vertically-oriented end walls integrally joined to said side walls and a top wall integrally joined to said side and end walls at a distance below their upper edges so as to form a shallow well in the top of said barrier surrounded by upwardly extending side and end walls, and having a bottom portion including a rectangular bottom wall having a length substantially coextensive with said side walls and a width greater than the end walls of said upper portion and inclined side walls diverging outwardly and downwardly from the side walls of said upper portion and integrally joined to respective side edges of said bottom wall, said bottom portion being constructed and defined for providing a vertically-oriented slot exteriorly of and parallel to each end wall and a vertically-oriented slot in each inclined side wall and substantially parallel to the side walls of said upper portion, each of which slots is constructed to receive and support a highway sign in an upright position.
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