Protective barrier members for work areas

A barrier member adapted for mounting on a pair of spaced road mounted vertically extending conical pylon members each having an upper and a lower end;

• the barrier member comprising an elongated barrier body providing a barrier surface that when the member is mounted on the pylons extends vertically for presentation to an observer as a visible barrier;
• wherein the barrier body is of thin sheet material, has a major portion of greater width which, when the member is mounted on its pylon, extends vertically and constitutes the said barrier surface, and has another minor portion of narrower width extending from the upper edge of the major portion at an angle thereto to increase the transverse rigidity of the member;
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• the barrier member also comprising a pylon-engaging member at each end of the barrier body attached to the barrier member at the junction of the major and minor portions;
• each pylon-engaging member having an aperture therein of diameter equal to an external diameter of the respective pylon adjacent to the upper end thereof, whereby with the pylon-engaging member mounted on the pylon upper end with the pylon uppermost end portion protruding through the aperture the pylon-engaging member and the barrier member are thereby retained against transverse movement relative to the pylon, and the pylon-engaging member is also retained against downward movement on the pylon so that the barrier surface is maintained at a corresponding predetermined distance above the road surface.

A barrier member adapted for mounting on a pair of spaced road mounted vertically extending conical pylon members each having an upper and a lower end;

• the barrier member comprising an elongated barrier body providing a barrier surface such that when the member is mounted on the pylon members said barrier surface extends vertically for presentation to an observer as a visible barrier;
• wherein the barrier surface is provided with a central recess completely surrounded by a planar border part, said central recess comprising a central part of the barrier body displaced backward from said planar border part, the central recess receiving legends and printing so that they are protected against scraping contact by said border part;
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• a pylon-engaging member at each end of the barrier body;
• each pylon-engaging member having an aperture therein of diameter equal to an external diameter of the respective pylon adjacent to the upper end thereof, whereby with the pylon-engaging member mounted on the pylon upper end with the pylon uppermost end portion protruding through the aperture the pylon-engaging member and the barrier member are thereby retained against transverse movement relative to the pylon, and the pylon-engaging member is also retained against downward movement on the pylon so that the barrier surface is maintained at a corresponding predetermined distance above the road surface.