Road structure – process – or apparatus – Traffic steering device or barrier
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-22
2008-10-07
Addie, Raymond W (Department: 3671)
Road structure, process, or apparatus
Traffic steering device or barrier
C414S539000, C414S551000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07431532
ABSTRACT:
Through the use of a rail system having spaced apart rails tracking above and along a roadway with arcuate guides associated with each rail and a cone magazine sequentially delivering traffic cones in a horizontal position between the rails in front of the arcuate guides, each horizontally disposed cone will be brought to an upright position when the top of its base contacts the guides as a result of friction with the roadway of one edge of the base of the traffic cone and movement of the guides with the rails. In one embodiment the magazine includes a mechanical arm with a cone clamp at its distal end, arranged to move the cone clamp from a cone storage to a location between the rails to sequentially deliver cones to the rail system. An auxiliary system is provided to reposition upright traffic cone from the rail system in a taper for closing off access to roadways.The arcuate guides can be removed, after which the rail system can be used to collect traffic cones by sequentially knocking them down between the rails and employing the arm with the cone clamp to sequentially transport such cones from a location between the rails to a cone storage in the magazine.
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Addie Raymond W
Strabala Joseph L.
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