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  Anchored safety barrierUSPTO Application #: 20080006807Title: Anchored safety barrier Abstract: A barrier system located between an access area such as a road and an adjoining hazard has barrier elements mounted on posts secured to inwardly directed, buried and anchored beam members, which extend below the surface of the access area. The posts may be cantilevered from the beams, with bracing means connecting the system members. The post, beam and its anchor members may be pivotally linked, so as to be foldable. The beam anchor may be a cable connected beneath the road to an oppositely located beam and post. The posts can project below the beam support means, and can have stabilizing blades near their lower ends. Posts can be made withdrawable, and can be cross-braced to adjacent posts. (end of abstract) Agent: D.w. Eggins - Barrie, ON, US Inventor: Ronald Coffey USPTO Applicaton #: 20080006807 - Class: 256 24 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080006807. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001]Not Applicable (N/A) STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002](N/A) REFERENCE TO A SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE, OR A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING [0003](N/A) COMPACT DISC APPENDIX [0004](N/A) BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0005]1. This invention is directed to a safety barrier system, and in particular to a barrier anchorage system for use in hazardous, environmentally difficult circumstances. [0006]2. Many accessible traveled areas or surfaces such as roads, paths and parking areas are bounded by soft land, steep declines and shoulders, or border on water or precipices where the terrain makes the provision of safety barriers both imperative, and next-to-impossible to provide. [0007]In one location in Ontario, Canada a narrow, twisting, much traveled road is bounded on one side by a canal, in an area that is subject to rain, snow and even black ice, such that several fatalities have occurred over the years, with vehicles leaving the road and crashing down the steep canal bank, through the ice, when present, and into the water, where some occupants have drowned. The absence of an effective shoulder, the steepness of the decline to the water, and the softness of the soil have prevented the use of traditional roadside barriers, and no effective solution has been put into practice to save lives. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008]The present invention provides a barrier system for use between an access area and an adjacent environmental hazard, the system having elongated barrier elements supported upon upstanding posts, wherein the posts are each individually secured to post support means, each support means having an inwardly directed beam member extending beneath the surface of the access area, to retain the posts in predetermined, positioned relation with the access area [0009]The subject barrier system includes anchor means extending beneath the surface and secured to the beam member, to secure the beam member substantially immovable. [0010]In one embodiment the post is in cantilevered, substantially rigid secured relation with and extending upwardly substantially at right-angles from the beam. [0011]This embodiment may include bracing means extending between the post and the beam member; and having the anchor means extending substantially at right-angles from the beam member, and substantially parallel with the surface of the area. [0012]This barrier embodiment may also include bracing means extending between the beam and the anchor means, with the beam member being buried beneath the surface of the access area at a substantially predetermined depth. A suitable layer of concrete may be used to further secure the barrier anchorage. [0013]In other embodiments, the post portion may extend downwardly below the level of the beam, into the substrata, to further stabilize the assembly when ground conditions are suitable. This depending post portion may include blade portions at its lower end, oriented at right angles to the beam portion, to furnish enhanced ground resistance to further stabilize the assembly, particularly against impact loads hitting the barrier. [0014]The term "access area" is applied to roads, paths and areas accessed by the public, whether paved or unpaved, and where the terrain is ill-adapted for the effective installation of orthodox fencing, supported simply upon fence posts. In several embodiments the anchor means extends substantially at right-angles from the beam member, and is substantially parallel with the surface of the area In another embodiment the anchor means is directed downwardly from the beam member inner end. In a further embodiment the post, beam and anchor members are pivotally linked together, enabling them to be compactly folded for easier transportation. Burial of the beam member and its anchoring means beneath the surface of the access area at a substantial, predetermined depth, with a concrete and roadbed cover gives additional stability to the system. [0015]The barrier posts may be erected in back-to-back pairs, located on opposite sides of a road or path and having cable means crossing under the road or path in connecting, load transfer relation between the respective support means of the two, spaced-apart posts. In a further embodiment, the supporting beam may have an end recess into which the barrier post is withdrawably inserted. This recess may consist of a pair of plates or flanges between which the post is inserted. The post may include a stop flange. Alternatively, the outer end of the beam may have the top and bottom plates cut away to form a slotted recess to receive the post, which is pinned to the beam recess side flanges. Inclined cross-bracing means connecting an upper end portion of a post with a lower connection point of another post serves to stabilize the barrier, and to transfer impact loading to the barrier beams and support system. The outermost ones of the posts of a barrier are braced outwardly to ground-anchor means. Continue reading... Full patent description for Anchored safety barrier Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Anchored safety barrier patent application. Patent Applications in related categories: 20080169455 - Fence attachment system - A fence attachment system includes a fence post clamp, a first anchoring device and an adapter with a second anchoring device for standardized attachment of any type fence panels to any type fence posts, wherein the fence post clamp has for example a ring-shaped configuration and contractible via a straining ... ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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