| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 116063000 | STREET TRAFFIC | 21 |
| 20100064963 | Vehicle height restrictor and alerting device - Disclosed is a device for providing a preliminary alert to the driver of a vehicle approaching an overhead obstacle. The inventive concept consists of a vertical mounting post to which is attached a non-marring horizontal height restrictor arm. The position of the height restrictor arm on the vertical post is at the same vertical distance from the roadway surface as is the vertical distance of the specific overhead obstacle for which an alert is provided. The height restrictor arm is affixed to the vertical post by means of a multi-directional pivotal connector comprising a hollow sphere, spring, and chain assembly. The pivotal connector allows the height restrictor arm to move, after contact by a vehicle, in a multitude of directions, fore and aft, up or down. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20130055948 | GUIDE APPARATUS - Included are embodiments of a guide apparatus. In some embodiments, the guide apparatus includes a body portion, a connector housing, and a rounded connector portion. The connector housing may include a connector snap surface that is disposed on an interior surface of the connector housing. Additionally, the connector housing may define a hollow portion adjacent to the interior surface. The connector housing may be coupled to the body portion via the connector snap surface. Similarly, the rounded connector portion may be coupled to the connector housing and may removably secure to a spad that is that is disposed on a ceiling, such that the guide apparatus hangs substantially downward, regardless of the orientation of the spad. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20100101484 | Indicator Post - This invention relates to an indicator post comprising an elongate sheet of high strength engineering polymer (HSEP) material, the elongate sheet being resiliently bendable to enable the indicator post to revert upright after an impact. An associated reinforcement means attachable to a driveable portion of the indicator post is also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110185962 | HUMANOID TRAFFIC CONTROL ROBOT - A humanoid traffic control robot is provided, which is installed on all or some of the lanes of a road where maintenance work, subway construction, or an unexpected situation such as a traffic accident takes place and allows arm parts of a robot body thereof to freely implement desired arm operations and thus to more easily perform a variety of traffic control signal services. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120285368 | DELINEATOR WITH BOUNCEBACK MECHANISM - Delineators are described that include a delineator body, a ball and socket joint, and a resilient rod. The ball and socket joint is disposed to promote deflection of the delineator body in response to a deflecting force. The resilient rod, which may comprise steel, couples to the delineator body and to the ball and socket joint, and is adapted to restore the delineator body to an upright position after removal of the deflecting force. An elastic grommet, which may comprise rubber, is also preferably included that connects the rod to the delineator body. The ball and socket joint may allow the delineator to deflect equally in all directions, or preferentially in a preferred deflection plane. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20090013923 | A-frame barricade - A pair of A-frame members of molded plastic support an elongated beam extending through openings in apex portions thereof. Pockets are provided in the outsides of two legs of each A-frame member into which elongated weight cartridges are placed to be securely held to the legs. The legs and pockets are so formed that with a low volume and weight, a high strength and rigidity of the legs is achieved, a substantial contribution being made by the weight cartridges. The weights of the cartridges are used to resist tilting movement of the barricade and to achieve stability with a high degree of efficiency. The weight cartridges are preferably blow-molded plastic tubes filed with slag or sand and most preferably are interchangeable with cartridges currently in use in other applications. For additional stability, the legs of each A-frame member may be secured to an elongated member, to a plastic tube mounted there-between and/or to a blow-molded panel that is adapted to be filled with a weighty material and face in a longitudinal direction. Also, for additional strength and stability, elongated beams may be hung on lower portions of legs of the pair of A-frame members. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025627 | COLLAPSIBLE AND STACKABLE ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION BARRIER - A portable roadway construction barrier comprising vertically telescoping sections which allow the barrier to be expanded for use or collapsed for storage and transport. The sections are held in the expanded position using locking devices formed at the junctions between the sections. The uppermost section may comprise a handle to facilitate transport and the collapse or expansion of the barrier. The base section may include a recess to allow efficient stacking of multiple barriers in the collapsed state. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090078192 | Hand operated traffic signal device - A hand-held ground-supported display device for warning passersby is disclosed. Included is a self-supporting sign panel and a plurality of at least three mast sections telescopically interfittable, one within the other. A coupler is attached to the sign panel, with a socket for releasably engaging the top mast section. The mast sections have progressively smaller internal diameters and progressively shorter lengths, with the outermost mast section having the largest internal diameter and the longest length. Middle mast upper and middle mast lower stop members are attached to upper and lower ends of the middle mast section, respectively. In one example, the middle mast upper stop member has an end wall with first and second sidewalls extending downwardly therefrom with lower free ends for interfering with stop members associated with the top and the bottom mast sections. A kit including the display device is also disclosed. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100251957 | MAKING PYLONS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING - A pylon handling system includes stackable pylons with a top defining a horizontal engagement hole with a rigid rim, and a pylon handling apparatus. The pylons are configured to be stacked with a lower pylon nested inside an adjacent upper pylon such that a separation space is present between the rigid rims of the upper and lower pylons. The pylon handling apparatus is configured such that an operator holding the handle can insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a first pylon to engage the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus, and then insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a second pylon to engage the second pylon on the pylon handling apparatus under the first pylon. The operator can manipulate the trigger to release the second pylon from the pylon engagement mechanism while retaining the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100162942 | Collapsible Construction Barrier - A collapsible barrier has at least three integrally-formed wall sections with a plurality of contiguous living hinges, as a series, joining each adjacent pair of wall sections, the at least three wall sections including two endmost wall sections joinable to form an upright structure. A collapsible barrier may include a plurality of interconnected wall sections each having a top-facing side, where one of the top-facing sides has a pocket adapted for securely holding a light. A thermoformed unitary plastic object may include at least two wall sections, at least one hinge member connecting adjacent interior ones of the wall sections' longitudinal sides, the hinge member comprising a plurality of interconnected living hinges, where a nominal thickness of the at least one hinge members of the thermoformed unitary plastic object approximates 0.100 inch. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20130014693 | Traffic declineator barrelAANM Bromm; ScottAACI Lake GenevaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Bromm; Scott Lake Geneva WI USAANM Lechner; William N.AACI BurlingtonAAST WIAACO USAAGP Lechner; William N. Burlington WI USAANM Fisch; Robert J.AACI East TroyAAST WIAACO USAAGP Fisch; Robert J. East Troy WI US - A durable, single walled plastic traffic or work area delineator barrel. The single walled barrel is molded in a blow molding operation and handle and base rim flange regions of the barrel in one construction include compressed wall surfaces that define hollow, open-cavity pillars or struts that span between the walls. The pillars are constructed by depressing portions of the walls into contact and thermally bonding the materials together. In another construction corners of the base rim flange include recessed indentations and surface corrugations that are aligned to strengthen the rim flange. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20100107964 | Weighted Traffic Cone Assembly - A weighted traffic cone assembly for being used in occasion of road/site construction includes a base and a conical body. The base has an inner periphery formed with a supporting section having slanted, upper and lower surfaces. The supporting section has a side that is adjacent to an outer periphery of the base and formed with a plurality of spaced holes, wherein the outer periphery has a lower surface concavely formed with an annular groove. After the base is place in a mold for forming the conical body, a pliable material is introduced into the mold to wrap the supporting section of the base, fill up each hole of the supporting section, and thus form the pliable yet tough conical body having a predetermined shape. The conical body has a lower end formed with upper and lower peripheries and plural connecting portions distributed therebetween for securely retaining the base. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20090235860 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable warning cone ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20120234228 | STRUCTURE OF TRAFFIC CONE ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a structure of traffic cone assembly, which is mainly formed through separately manufacturing a cone member and a base then assembled together, a connection ring part is formed at the bottom of the cone member, a mounting ring slot is formed on the connection ring part, and the center of the base is formed with the connection hole served to allow the cone member to sleeve in, and a convex mounting ring is formed at the inner circumference of the connection hole so as to be mounted with the mounting ring slot formed on the connection ring part of the cone member for achieving a mounting positioning effect, so the sleeve connection of the two components is established and kept. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20090139443 | FLEXIBLE MARKER DEVICE - A flexible marker device comprises a marker body having a bottom end and a top end, and a base for supporting the marker body. The base has an aperture in a center portion thereof and a groove extending about the aperture in an upper surface of the base. The bottom end of the marker body is at least partially disposed within the groove. A cured material, preferably polyurethane, is disposed in the groove to thereby secure the marker body to the base. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110220010 | TRAFFIC CONE INSERT THAT SUPPORTS CAUTION TAPE - A device used with a traffic cone to support caution tape includes at least one head extending from a body. The head is received in the opening defined at the top of a typical traffic cone to support the device in an upright position with respect to the cone. The body of the device is adapted to support a section of caution tape. The body may define a slot that allows the tape to be supported in an unfolded condition. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20100319607 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable cone includes first and second side panels that are tapered in the upward direction, each side panel having an outer surface and an inner surface, a lower edge, an upper edge, and opposing side edges. The cone further includes base panel having a folding seam extending along the central portion thereof in a direction generally parallel to the lower edges of the side panels, wherein the base panel folds along the folding seam. The first and second side panels are secured together at a predetermined location to define concave first and second side panels when the base panel is unfolded. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120186511 | Attachment Module for a Safety Cone - An attachment module for a safety cone permitting a variety of safety enhancing devices to be easily attached to the cone. The attachment module comprising a top ring and a bottom ring joined together to form an assembly. The top ring and bottom ring sized to conform to a predefined safety cone angle or range of angles, the assembly having an attachment arm for attaching a safety-enhancing device. Examples of safety enhancing devices include, but are not limited to a flag, a sign, a safety tape holder, a light, or other safety-enhancing device. The assembly may be placed over a safety cone and is held secure by gravity and the wedge of the cone angle. Safety enhancing devices may then be attached to the module and thus to the cone to improve the effectiveness of the cone. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20110308446 | EXPANDABLE TRAFFIC CONE - An expandable traffic cone that can be opened and expanded to create a barrier or barricade, lessening the number of cones needed for any situation. The expandable traffic cone is split vertically with a first and second half, joined together by clamps, that when undone, allow the first and second half to be separated horizontally to expose a set of pivoting arms that create a barricade when the cone halves are separated. Arm extensions are also provided to expand the width of the barricade. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20090084306 | Foldable traffic safety marker - A traffic safety marker is provided. The marker has a first triangle and a second triangle in pivoting engagement. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a storage position. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a use position. Also included is a spring that is configured to urge the first triangle and second triangle to pivot with respect to one another. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090308304 | Warning triangle - A warning triangle placed on the ground perpendicularly further can be folded over reduced to a minimum volume, comprises three isosceles triangular frame plates ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 116063000 | Portable | 16 |
| 20100064963 | Vehicle height restrictor and alerting device - Disclosed is a device for providing a preliminary alert to the driver of a vehicle approaching an overhead obstacle. The inventive concept consists of a vertical mounting post to which is attached a non-marring horizontal height restrictor arm. The position of the height restrictor arm on the vertical post is at the same vertical distance from the roadway surface as is the vertical distance of the specific overhead obstacle for which an alert is provided. The height restrictor arm is affixed to the vertical post by means of a multi-directional pivotal connector comprising a hollow sphere, spring, and chain assembly. The pivotal connector allows the height restrictor arm to move, after contact by a vehicle, in a multitude of directions, fore and aft, up or down. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20130055948 | GUIDE APPARATUS - Included are embodiments of a guide apparatus. In some embodiments, the guide apparatus includes a body portion, a connector housing, and a rounded connector portion. The connector housing may include a connector snap surface that is disposed on an interior surface of the connector housing. Additionally, the connector housing may define a hollow portion adjacent to the interior surface. The connector housing may be coupled to the body portion via the connector snap surface. Similarly, the rounded connector portion may be coupled to the connector housing and may removably secure to a spad that is that is disposed on a ceiling, such that the guide apparatus hangs substantially downward, regardless of the orientation of the spad. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20100101484 | Indicator Post - This invention relates to an indicator post comprising an elongate sheet of high strength engineering polymer (HSEP) material, the elongate sheet being resiliently bendable to enable the indicator post to revert upright after an impact. An associated reinforcement means attachable to a driveable portion of the indicator post is also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110185962 | HUMANOID TRAFFIC CONTROL ROBOT - A humanoid traffic control robot is provided, which is installed on all or some of the lanes of a road where maintenance work, subway construction, or an unexpected situation such as a traffic accident takes place and allows arm parts of a robot body thereof to freely implement desired arm operations and thus to more easily perform a variety of traffic control signal services. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120285368 | DELINEATOR WITH BOUNCEBACK MECHANISM - Delineators are described that include a delineator body, a ball and socket joint, and a resilient rod. The ball and socket joint is disposed to promote deflection of the delineator body in response to a deflecting force. The resilient rod, which may comprise steel, couples to the delineator body and to the ball and socket joint, and is adapted to restore the delineator body to an upright position after removal of the deflecting force. An elastic grommet, which may comprise rubber, is also preferably included that connects the rod to the delineator body. The ball and socket joint may allow the delineator to deflect equally in all directions, or preferentially in a preferred deflection plane. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20090013923 | A-frame barricade - A pair of A-frame members of molded plastic support an elongated beam extending through openings in apex portions thereof. Pockets are provided in the outsides of two legs of each A-frame member into which elongated weight cartridges are placed to be securely held to the legs. The legs and pockets are so formed that with a low volume and weight, a high strength and rigidity of the legs is achieved, a substantial contribution being made by the weight cartridges. The weights of the cartridges are used to resist tilting movement of the barricade and to achieve stability with a high degree of efficiency. The weight cartridges are preferably blow-molded plastic tubes filed with slag or sand and most preferably are interchangeable with cartridges currently in use in other applications. For additional stability, the legs of each A-frame member may be secured to an elongated member, to a plastic tube mounted there-between and/or to a blow-molded panel that is adapted to be filled with a weighty material and face in a longitudinal direction. Also, for additional strength and stability, elongated beams may be hung on lower portions of legs of the pair of A-frame members. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025627 | COLLAPSIBLE AND STACKABLE ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION BARRIER - A portable roadway construction barrier comprising vertically telescoping sections which allow the barrier to be expanded for use or collapsed for storage and transport. The sections are held in the expanded position using locking devices formed at the junctions between the sections. The uppermost section may comprise a handle to facilitate transport and the collapse or expansion of the barrier. The base section may include a recess to allow efficient stacking of multiple barriers in the collapsed state. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090078192 | Hand operated traffic signal device - A hand-held ground-supported display device for warning passersby is disclosed. Included is a self-supporting sign panel and a plurality of at least three mast sections telescopically interfittable, one within the other. A coupler is attached to the sign panel, with a socket for releasably engaging the top mast section. The mast sections have progressively smaller internal diameters and progressively shorter lengths, with the outermost mast section having the largest internal diameter and the longest length. Middle mast upper and middle mast lower stop members are attached to upper and lower ends of the middle mast section, respectively. In one example, the middle mast upper stop member has an end wall with first and second sidewalls extending downwardly therefrom with lower free ends for interfering with stop members associated with the top and the bottom mast sections. A kit including the display device is also disclosed. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100251957 | MAKING PYLONS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING - A pylon handling system includes stackable pylons with a top defining a horizontal engagement hole with a rigid rim, and a pylon handling apparatus. The pylons are configured to be stacked with a lower pylon nested inside an adjacent upper pylon such that a separation space is present between the rigid rims of the upper and lower pylons. The pylon handling apparatus is configured such that an operator holding the handle can insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a first pylon to engage the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus, and then insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a second pylon to engage the second pylon on the pylon handling apparatus under the first pylon. The operator can manipulate the trigger to release the second pylon from the pylon engagement mechanism while retaining the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100162942 | Collapsible Construction Barrier - A collapsible barrier has at least three integrally-formed wall sections with a plurality of contiguous living hinges, as a series, joining each adjacent pair of wall sections, the at least three wall sections including two endmost wall sections joinable to form an upright structure. A collapsible barrier may include a plurality of interconnected wall sections each having a top-facing side, where one of the top-facing sides has a pocket adapted for securely holding a light. A thermoformed unitary plastic object may include at least two wall sections, at least one hinge member connecting adjacent interior ones of the wall sections' longitudinal sides, the hinge member comprising a plurality of interconnected living hinges, where a nominal thickness of the at least one hinge members of the thermoformed unitary plastic object approximates 0.100 inch. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20130014693 | Traffic declineator barrelAANM Bromm; ScottAACI Lake GenevaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Bromm; Scott Lake Geneva WI USAANM Lechner; William N.AACI BurlingtonAAST WIAACO USAAGP Lechner; William N. Burlington WI USAANM Fisch; Robert J.AACI East TroyAAST WIAACO USAAGP Fisch; Robert J. East Troy WI US - A durable, single walled plastic traffic or work area delineator barrel. The single walled barrel is molded in a blow molding operation and handle and base rim flange regions of the barrel in one construction include compressed wall surfaces that define hollow, open-cavity pillars or struts that span between the walls. The pillars are constructed by depressing portions of the walls into contact and thermally bonding the materials together. In another construction corners of the base rim flange include recessed indentations and surface corrugations that are aligned to strengthen the rim flange. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20100107964 | Weighted Traffic Cone Assembly - A weighted traffic cone assembly for being used in occasion of road/site construction includes a base and a conical body. The base has an inner periphery formed with a supporting section having slanted, upper and lower surfaces. The supporting section has a side that is adjacent to an outer periphery of the base and formed with a plurality of spaced holes, wherein the outer periphery has a lower surface concavely formed with an annular groove. After the base is place in a mold for forming the conical body, a pliable material is introduced into the mold to wrap the supporting section of the base, fill up each hole of the supporting section, and thus form the pliable yet tough conical body having a predetermined shape. The conical body has a lower end formed with upper and lower peripheries and plural connecting portions distributed therebetween for securely retaining the base. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20090235860 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable warning cone ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20120234228 | STRUCTURE OF TRAFFIC CONE ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a structure of traffic cone assembly, which is mainly formed through separately manufacturing a cone member and a base then assembled together, a connection ring part is formed at the bottom of the cone member, a mounting ring slot is formed on the connection ring part, and the center of the base is formed with the connection hole served to allow the cone member to sleeve in, and a convex mounting ring is formed at the inner circumference of the connection hole so as to be mounted with the mounting ring slot formed on the connection ring part of the cone member for achieving a mounting positioning effect, so the sleeve connection of the two components is established and kept. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20090139443 | FLEXIBLE MARKER DEVICE - A flexible marker device comprises a marker body having a bottom end and a top end, and a base for supporting the marker body. The base has an aperture in a center portion thereof and a groove extending about the aperture in an upper surface of the base. The bottom end of the marker body is at least partially disposed within the groove. A cured material, preferably polyurethane, is disposed in the groove to thereby secure the marker body to the base. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110220010 | TRAFFIC CONE INSERT THAT SUPPORTS CAUTION TAPE - A device used with a traffic cone to support caution tape includes at least one head extending from a body. The head is received in the opening defined at the top of a typical traffic cone to support the device in an upright position with respect to the cone. The body of the device is adapted to support a section of caution tape. The body may define a slot that allows the tape to be supported in an unfolded condition. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20100319607 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable cone includes first and second side panels that are tapered in the upward direction, each side panel having an outer surface and an inner surface, a lower edge, an upper edge, and opposing side edges. The cone further includes base panel having a folding seam extending along the central portion thereof in a direction generally parallel to the lower edges of the side panels, wherein the base panel folds along the folding seam. The first and second side panels are secured together at a predetermined location to define concave first and second side panels when the base panel is unfolded. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120186511 | Attachment Module for a Safety Cone - An attachment module for a safety cone permitting a variety of safety enhancing devices to be easily attached to the cone. The attachment module comprising a top ring and a bottom ring joined together to form an assembly. The top ring and bottom ring sized to conform to a predefined safety cone angle or range of angles, the assembly having an attachment arm for attaching a safety-enhancing device. Examples of safety enhancing devices include, but are not limited to a flag, a sign, a safety tape holder, a light, or other safety-enhancing device. The assembly may be placed over a safety cone and is held secure by gravity and the wedge of the cone angle. Safety enhancing devices may then be attached to the module and thus to the cone to improve the effectiveness of the cone. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20110308446 | EXPANDABLE TRAFFIC CONE - An expandable traffic cone that can be opened and expanded to create a barrier or barricade, lessening the number of cones needed for any situation. The expandable traffic cone is split vertically with a first and second half, joined together by clamps, that when undone, allow the first and second half to be separated horizontally to expose a set of pivoting arms that create a barricade when the cone halves are separated. Arm extensions are also provided to expand the width of the barricade. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20090084306 | Foldable traffic safety marker - A traffic safety marker is provided. The marker has a first triangle and a second triangle in pivoting engagement. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a storage position. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a use position. Also included is a spring that is configured to urge the first triangle and second triangle to pivot with respect to one another. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090308304 | Warning triangle - A warning triangle placed on the ground perpendicularly further can be folded over reduced to a minimum volume, comprises three isosceles triangular frame plates ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 116063000 | Cone | 8 |
| 20100064963 | Vehicle height restrictor and alerting device - Disclosed is a device for providing a preliminary alert to the driver of a vehicle approaching an overhead obstacle. The inventive concept consists of a vertical mounting post to which is attached a non-marring horizontal height restrictor arm. The position of the height restrictor arm on the vertical post is at the same vertical distance from the roadway surface as is the vertical distance of the specific overhead obstacle for which an alert is provided. The height restrictor arm is affixed to the vertical post by means of a multi-directional pivotal connector comprising a hollow sphere, spring, and chain assembly. The pivotal connector allows the height restrictor arm to move, after contact by a vehicle, in a multitude of directions, fore and aft, up or down. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20130055948 | GUIDE APPARATUS - Included are embodiments of a guide apparatus. In some embodiments, the guide apparatus includes a body portion, a connector housing, and a rounded connector portion. The connector housing may include a connector snap surface that is disposed on an interior surface of the connector housing. Additionally, the connector housing may define a hollow portion adjacent to the interior surface. The connector housing may be coupled to the body portion via the connector snap surface. Similarly, the rounded connector portion may be coupled to the connector housing and may removably secure to a spad that is that is disposed on a ceiling, such that the guide apparatus hangs substantially downward, regardless of the orientation of the spad. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20100101484 | Indicator Post - This invention relates to an indicator post comprising an elongate sheet of high strength engineering polymer (HSEP) material, the elongate sheet being resiliently bendable to enable the indicator post to revert upright after an impact. An associated reinforcement means attachable to a driveable portion of the indicator post is also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110185962 | HUMANOID TRAFFIC CONTROL ROBOT - A humanoid traffic control robot is provided, which is installed on all or some of the lanes of a road where maintenance work, subway construction, or an unexpected situation such as a traffic accident takes place and allows arm parts of a robot body thereof to freely implement desired arm operations and thus to more easily perform a variety of traffic control signal services. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120285368 | DELINEATOR WITH BOUNCEBACK MECHANISM - Delineators are described that include a delineator body, a ball and socket joint, and a resilient rod. The ball and socket joint is disposed to promote deflection of the delineator body in response to a deflecting force. The resilient rod, which may comprise steel, couples to the delineator body and to the ball and socket joint, and is adapted to restore the delineator body to an upright position after removal of the deflecting force. An elastic grommet, which may comprise rubber, is also preferably included that connects the rod to the delineator body. The ball and socket joint may allow the delineator to deflect equally in all directions, or preferentially in a preferred deflection plane. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20090013923 | A-frame barricade - A pair of A-frame members of molded plastic support an elongated beam extending through openings in apex portions thereof. Pockets are provided in the outsides of two legs of each A-frame member into which elongated weight cartridges are placed to be securely held to the legs. The legs and pockets are so formed that with a low volume and weight, a high strength and rigidity of the legs is achieved, a substantial contribution being made by the weight cartridges. The weights of the cartridges are used to resist tilting movement of the barricade and to achieve stability with a high degree of efficiency. The weight cartridges are preferably blow-molded plastic tubes filed with slag or sand and most preferably are interchangeable with cartridges currently in use in other applications. For additional stability, the legs of each A-frame member may be secured to an elongated member, to a plastic tube mounted there-between and/or to a blow-molded panel that is adapted to be filled with a weighty material and face in a longitudinal direction. Also, for additional strength and stability, elongated beams may be hung on lower portions of legs of the pair of A-frame members. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025627 | COLLAPSIBLE AND STACKABLE ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION BARRIER - A portable roadway construction barrier comprising vertically telescoping sections which allow the barrier to be expanded for use or collapsed for storage and transport. The sections are held in the expanded position using locking devices formed at the junctions between the sections. The uppermost section may comprise a handle to facilitate transport and the collapse or expansion of the barrier. The base section may include a recess to allow efficient stacking of multiple barriers in the collapsed state. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090078192 | Hand operated traffic signal device - A hand-held ground-supported display device for warning passersby is disclosed. Included is a self-supporting sign panel and a plurality of at least three mast sections telescopically interfittable, one within the other. A coupler is attached to the sign panel, with a socket for releasably engaging the top mast section. The mast sections have progressively smaller internal diameters and progressively shorter lengths, with the outermost mast section having the largest internal diameter and the longest length. Middle mast upper and middle mast lower stop members are attached to upper and lower ends of the middle mast section, respectively. In one example, the middle mast upper stop member has an end wall with first and second sidewalls extending downwardly therefrom with lower free ends for interfering with stop members associated with the top and the bottom mast sections. A kit including the display device is also disclosed. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100251957 | MAKING PYLONS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING - A pylon handling system includes stackable pylons with a top defining a horizontal engagement hole with a rigid rim, and a pylon handling apparatus. The pylons are configured to be stacked with a lower pylon nested inside an adjacent upper pylon such that a separation space is present between the rigid rims of the upper and lower pylons. The pylon handling apparatus is configured such that an operator holding the handle can insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a first pylon to engage the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus, and then insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a second pylon to engage the second pylon on the pylon handling apparatus under the first pylon. The operator can manipulate the trigger to release the second pylon from the pylon engagement mechanism while retaining the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100162942 | Collapsible Construction Barrier - A collapsible barrier has at least three integrally-formed wall sections with a plurality of contiguous living hinges, as a series, joining each adjacent pair of wall sections, the at least three wall sections including two endmost wall sections joinable to form an upright structure. A collapsible barrier may include a plurality of interconnected wall sections each having a top-facing side, where one of the top-facing sides has a pocket adapted for securely holding a light. A thermoformed unitary plastic object may include at least two wall sections, at least one hinge member connecting adjacent interior ones of the wall sections' longitudinal sides, the hinge member comprising a plurality of interconnected living hinges, where a nominal thickness of the at least one hinge members of the thermoformed unitary plastic object approximates 0.100 inch. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20130014693 | Traffic declineator barrelAANM Bromm; ScottAACI Lake GenevaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Bromm; Scott Lake Geneva WI USAANM Lechner; William N.AACI BurlingtonAAST WIAACO USAAGP Lechner; William N. Burlington WI USAANM Fisch; Robert J.AACI East TroyAAST WIAACO USAAGP Fisch; Robert J. East Troy WI US - A durable, single walled plastic traffic or work area delineator barrel. The single walled barrel is molded in a blow molding operation and handle and base rim flange regions of the barrel in one construction include compressed wall surfaces that define hollow, open-cavity pillars or struts that span between the walls. The pillars are constructed by depressing portions of the walls into contact and thermally bonding the materials together. In another construction corners of the base rim flange include recessed indentations and surface corrugations that are aligned to strengthen the rim flange. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20100107964 | Weighted Traffic Cone Assembly - A weighted traffic cone assembly for being used in occasion of road/site construction includes a base and a conical body. The base has an inner periphery formed with a supporting section having slanted, upper and lower surfaces. The supporting section has a side that is adjacent to an outer periphery of the base and formed with a plurality of spaced holes, wherein the outer periphery has a lower surface concavely formed with an annular groove. After the base is place in a mold for forming the conical body, a pliable material is introduced into the mold to wrap the supporting section of the base, fill up each hole of the supporting section, and thus form the pliable yet tough conical body having a predetermined shape. The conical body has a lower end formed with upper and lower peripheries and plural connecting portions distributed therebetween for securely retaining the base. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20090235860 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable warning cone ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20120234228 | STRUCTURE OF TRAFFIC CONE ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a structure of traffic cone assembly, which is mainly formed through separately manufacturing a cone member and a base then assembled together, a connection ring part is formed at the bottom of the cone member, a mounting ring slot is formed on the connection ring part, and the center of the base is formed with the connection hole served to allow the cone member to sleeve in, and a convex mounting ring is formed at the inner circumference of the connection hole so as to be mounted with the mounting ring slot formed on the connection ring part of the cone member for achieving a mounting positioning effect, so the sleeve connection of the two components is established and kept. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20090139443 | FLEXIBLE MARKER DEVICE - A flexible marker device comprises a marker body having a bottom end and a top end, and a base for supporting the marker body. The base has an aperture in a center portion thereof and a groove extending about the aperture in an upper surface of the base. The bottom end of the marker body is at least partially disposed within the groove. A cured material, preferably polyurethane, is disposed in the groove to thereby secure the marker body to the base. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110220010 | TRAFFIC CONE INSERT THAT SUPPORTS CAUTION TAPE - A device used with a traffic cone to support caution tape includes at least one head extending from a body. The head is received in the opening defined at the top of a typical traffic cone to support the device in an upright position with respect to the cone. The body of the device is adapted to support a section of caution tape. The body may define a slot that allows the tape to be supported in an unfolded condition. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20100319607 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable cone includes first and second side panels that are tapered in the upward direction, each side panel having an outer surface and an inner surface, a lower edge, an upper edge, and opposing side edges. The cone further includes base panel having a folding seam extending along the central portion thereof in a direction generally parallel to the lower edges of the side panels, wherein the base panel folds along the folding seam. The first and second side panels are secured together at a predetermined location to define concave first and second side panels when the base panel is unfolded. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120186511 | Attachment Module for a Safety Cone - An attachment module for a safety cone permitting a variety of safety enhancing devices to be easily attached to the cone. The attachment module comprising a top ring and a bottom ring joined together to form an assembly. The top ring and bottom ring sized to conform to a predefined safety cone angle or range of angles, the assembly having an attachment arm for attaching a safety-enhancing device. Examples of safety enhancing devices include, but are not limited to a flag, a sign, a safety tape holder, a light, or other safety-enhancing device. The assembly may be placed over a safety cone and is held secure by gravity and the wedge of the cone angle. Safety enhancing devices may then be attached to the module and thus to the cone to improve the effectiveness of the cone. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20110308446 | EXPANDABLE TRAFFIC CONE - An expandable traffic cone that can be opened and expanded to create a barrier or barricade, lessening the number of cones needed for any situation. The expandable traffic cone is split vertically with a first and second half, joined together by clamps, that when undone, allow the first and second half to be separated horizontally to expose a set of pivoting arms that create a barricade when the cone halves are separated. Arm extensions are also provided to expand the width of the barricade. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20090084306 | Foldable traffic safety marker - A traffic safety marker is provided. The marker has a first triangle and a second triangle in pivoting engagement. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a storage position. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a use position. Also included is a spring that is configured to urge the first triangle and second triangle to pivot with respect to one another. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090308304 | Warning triangle - A warning triangle placed on the ground perpendicularly further can be folded over reduced to a minimum volume, comprises three isosceles triangular frame plates ( | 12-17-2009 |
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| 20100064963 | Vehicle height restrictor and alerting device - Disclosed is a device for providing a preliminary alert to the driver of a vehicle approaching an overhead obstacle. The inventive concept consists of a vertical mounting post to which is attached a non-marring horizontal height restrictor arm. The position of the height restrictor arm on the vertical post is at the same vertical distance from the roadway surface as is the vertical distance of the specific overhead obstacle for which an alert is provided. The height restrictor arm is affixed to the vertical post by means of a multi-directional pivotal connector comprising a hollow sphere, spring, and chain assembly. The pivotal connector allows the height restrictor arm to move, after contact by a vehicle, in a multitude of directions, fore and aft, up or down. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20130055948 | GUIDE APPARATUS - Included are embodiments of a guide apparatus. In some embodiments, the guide apparatus includes a body portion, a connector housing, and a rounded connector portion. The connector housing may include a connector snap surface that is disposed on an interior surface of the connector housing. Additionally, the connector housing may define a hollow portion adjacent to the interior surface. The connector housing may be coupled to the body portion via the connector snap surface. Similarly, the rounded connector portion may be coupled to the connector housing and may removably secure to a spad that is that is disposed on a ceiling, such that the guide apparatus hangs substantially downward, regardless of the orientation of the spad. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20100101484 | Indicator Post - This invention relates to an indicator post comprising an elongate sheet of high strength engineering polymer (HSEP) material, the elongate sheet being resiliently bendable to enable the indicator post to revert upright after an impact. An associated reinforcement means attachable to a driveable portion of the indicator post is also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110185962 | HUMANOID TRAFFIC CONTROL ROBOT - A humanoid traffic control robot is provided, which is installed on all or some of the lanes of a road where maintenance work, subway construction, or an unexpected situation such as a traffic accident takes place and allows arm parts of a robot body thereof to freely implement desired arm operations and thus to more easily perform a variety of traffic control signal services. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120285368 | DELINEATOR WITH BOUNCEBACK MECHANISM - Delineators are described that include a delineator body, a ball and socket joint, and a resilient rod. The ball and socket joint is disposed to promote deflection of the delineator body in response to a deflecting force. The resilient rod, which may comprise steel, couples to the delineator body and to the ball and socket joint, and is adapted to restore the delineator body to an upright position after removal of the deflecting force. An elastic grommet, which may comprise rubber, is also preferably included that connects the rod to the delineator body. The ball and socket joint may allow the delineator to deflect equally in all directions, or preferentially in a preferred deflection plane. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20090013923 | A-frame barricade - A pair of A-frame members of molded plastic support an elongated beam extending through openings in apex portions thereof. Pockets are provided in the outsides of two legs of each A-frame member into which elongated weight cartridges are placed to be securely held to the legs. The legs and pockets are so formed that with a low volume and weight, a high strength and rigidity of the legs is achieved, a substantial contribution being made by the weight cartridges. The weights of the cartridges are used to resist tilting movement of the barricade and to achieve stability with a high degree of efficiency. The weight cartridges are preferably blow-molded plastic tubes filed with slag or sand and most preferably are interchangeable with cartridges currently in use in other applications. For additional stability, the legs of each A-frame member may be secured to an elongated member, to a plastic tube mounted there-between and/or to a blow-molded panel that is adapted to be filled with a weighty material and face in a longitudinal direction. Also, for additional strength and stability, elongated beams may be hung on lower portions of legs of the pair of A-frame members. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025627 | COLLAPSIBLE AND STACKABLE ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION BARRIER - A portable roadway construction barrier comprising vertically telescoping sections which allow the barrier to be expanded for use or collapsed for storage and transport. The sections are held in the expanded position using locking devices formed at the junctions between the sections. The uppermost section may comprise a handle to facilitate transport and the collapse or expansion of the barrier. The base section may include a recess to allow efficient stacking of multiple barriers in the collapsed state. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090078192 | Hand operated traffic signal device - A hand-held ground-supported display device for warning passersby is disclosed. Included is a self-supporting sign panel and a plurality of at least three mast sections telescopically interfittable, one within the other. A coupler is attached to the sign panel, with a socket for releasably engaging the top mast section. The mast sections have progressively smaller internal diameters and progressively shorter lengths, with the outermost mast section having the largest internal diameter and the longest length. Middle mast upper and middle mast lower stop members are attached to upper and lower ends of the middle mast section, respectively. In one example, the middle mast upper stop member has an end wall with first and second sidewalls extending downwardly therefrom with lower free ends for interfering with stop members associated with the top and the bottom mast sections. A kit including the display device is also disclosed. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100251957 | MAKING PYLONS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING - A pylon handling system includes stackable pylons with a top defining a horizontal engagement hole with a rigid rim, and a pylon handling apparatus. The pylons are configured to be stacked with a lower pylon nested inside an adjacent upper pylon such that a separation space is present between the rigid rims of the upper and lower pylons. The pylon handling apparatus is configured such that an operator holding the handle can insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a first pylon to engage the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus, and then insert the pylon engagement mechanism through the engagement hole in a second pylon to engage the second pylon on the pylon handling apparatus under the first pylon. The operator can manipulate the trigger to release the second pylon from the pylon engagement mechanism while retaining the first pylon on the pylon handling apparatus. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100162942 | Collapsible Construction Barrier - A collapsible barrier has at least three integrally-formed wall sections with a plurality of contiguous living hinges, as a series, joining each adjacent pair of wall sections, the at least three wall sections including two endmost wall sections joinable to form an upright structure. A collapsible barrier may include a plurality of interconnected wall sections each having a top-facing side, where one of the top-facing sides has a pocket adapted for securely holding a light. A thermoformed unitary plastic object may include at least two wall sections, at least one hinge member connecting adjacent interior ones of the wall sections' longitudinal sides, the hinge member comprising a plurality of interconnected living hinges, where a nominal thickness of the at least one hinge members of the thermoformed unitary plastic object approximates 0.100 inch. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20130014693 | Traffic declineator barrelAANM Bromm; ScottAACI Lake GenevaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Bromm; Scott Lake Geneva WI USAANM Lechner; William N.AACI BurlingtonAAST WIAACO USAAGP Lechner; William N. Burlington WI USAANM Fisch; Robert J.AACI East TroyAAST WIAACO USAAGP Fisch; Robert J. East Troy WI US - A durable, single walled plastic traffic or work area delineator barrel. The single walled barrel is molded in a blow molding operation and handle and base rim flange regions of the barrel in one construction include compressed wall surfaces that define hollow, open-cavity pillars or struts that span between the walls. The pillars are constructed by depressing portions of the walls into contact and thermally bonding the materials together. In another construction corners of the base rim flange include recessed indentations and surface corrugations that are aligned to strengthen the rim flange. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20100107964 | Weighted Traffic Cone Assembly - A weighted traffic cone assembly for being used in occasion of road/site construction includes a base and a conical body. The base has an inner periphery formed with a supporting section having slanted, upper and lower surfaces. The supporting section has a side that is adjacent to an outer periphery of the base and formed with a plurality of spaced holes, wherein the outer periphery has a lower surface concavely formed with an annular groove. After the base is place in a mold for forming the conical body, a pliable material is introduced into the mold to wrap the supporting section of the base, fill up each hole of the supporting section, and thus form the pliable yet tough conical body having a predetermined shape. The conical body has a lower end formed with upper and lower peripheries and plural connecting portions distributed therebetween for securely retaining the base. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20090235860 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable warning cone ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20120234228 | STRUCTURE OF TRAFFIC CONE ASSEMBLY - The present invention relates to a structure of traffic cone assembly, which is mainly formed through separately manufacturing a cone member and a base then assembled together, a connection ring part is formed at the bottom of the cone member, a mounting ring slot is formed on the connection ring part, and the center of the base is formed with the connection hole served to allow the cone member to sleeve in, and a convex mounting ring is formed at the inner circumference of the connection hole so as to be mounted with the mounting ring slot formed on the connection ring part of the cone member for achieving a mounting positioning effect, so the sleeve connection of the two components is established and kept. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20090139443 | FLEXIBLE MARKER DEVICE - A flexible marker device comprises a marker body having a bottom end and a top end, and a base for supporting the marker body. The base has an aperture in a center portion thereof and a groove extending about the aperture in an upper surface of the base. The bottom end of the marker body is at least partially disposed within the groove. A cured material, preferably polyurethane, is disposed in the groove to thereby secure the marker body to the base. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110220010 | TRAFFIC CONE INSERT THAT SUPPORTS CAUTION TAPE - A device used with a traffic cone to support caution tape includes at least one head extending from a body. The head is received in the opening defined at the top of a typical traffic cone to support the device in an upright position with respect to the cone. The body of the device is adapted to support a section of caution tape. The body may define a slot that allows the tape to be supported in an unfolded condition. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20100319607 | FOLDABLE CONE - The foldable cone includes first and second side panels that are tapered in the upward direction, each side panel having an outer surface and an inner surface, a lower edge, an upper edge, and opposing side edges. The cone further includes base panel having a folding seam extending along the central portion thereof in a direction generally parallel to the lower edges of the side panels, wherein the base panel folds along the folding seam. The first and second side panels are secured together at a predetermined location to define concave first and second side panels when the base panel is unfolded. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120186511 | Attachment Module for a Safety Cone - An attachment module for a safety cone permitting a variety of safety enhancing devices to be easily attached to the cone. The attachment module comprising a top ring and a bottom ring joined together to form an assembly. The top ring and bottom ring sized to conform to a predefined safety cone angle or range of angles, the assembly having an attachment arm for attaching a safety-enhancing device. Examples of safety enhancing devices include, but are not limited to a flag, a sign, a safety tape holder, a light, or other safety-enhancing device. The assembly may be placed over a safety cone and is held secure by gravity and the wedge of the cone angle. Safety enhancing devices may then be attached to the module and thus to the cone to improve the effectiveness of the cone. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20110308446 | EXPANDABLE TRAFFIC CONE - An expandable traffic cone that can be opened and expanded to create a barrier or barricade, lessening the number of cones needed for any situation. The expandable traffic cone is split vertically with a first and second half, joined together by clamps, that when undone, allow the first and second half to be separated horizontally to expose a set of pivoting arms that create a barricade when the cone halves are separated. Arm extensions are also provided to expand the width of the barricade. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20090084306 | Foldable traffic safety marker - A traffic safety marker is provided. The marker has a first triangle and a second triangle in pivoting engagement. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a storage position. The first triangle and second triangle are capable of being pivoted with respect to one another so as to be oriented into a use position. Also included is a spring that is configured to urge the first triangle and second triangle to pivot with respect to one another. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090308304 | Warning triangle - A warning triangle placed on the ground perpendicularly further can be folded over reduced to a minimum volume, comprises three isosceles triangular frame plates ( | 12-17-2009 |
