DE3407929A1 - Flashing lights in conjunction with light barriers and advance warning panels at pedestrian crossings on local and main roads - Google Patents

Abstract

It may be said in summary that the use of the abovementioned invention ensures greater safety for pedestrians on marked pedestrian crossings (zebra crossings), by contrast with the regulations customary up to now. In addition, a substantial saving in cost and electricity is achieved for the hundreds of thousands of marked pedestrian crossings.

Description

the patent application of Mr. Franz Josef Christ, 7768 Stockach 1, Schilierstrasse 12, dated 02. Harz 1984, concerns:

Flashing lights in connection with light barriers and gate warning boards on local and country roads at pedestrian crossings

Often there are crossings at pedestrian crossings, on both of them Sides of each side of the street, each an approximately 5 πι high arc lamp, the τοπ, this lohe down the respective pedestrian crossing with illuminated by a warning and safety lamp, you can get away with it assume that these energy-intensive luminaires have an annual average of around 11 - 1? Have to shine for hours in order to at least fulfill the previous function as a warning and safety lamp for pedestrians.

In practice it is like this, the drivers have to for safety reasons from the respective car seat height, the varies in height depending on the type of vehicle, fluctuating from about 1-3 H, the entire right and left lane including the lane = Keep an eye on the edges as long as the motor vehicle in question is drives on the respective lane.

In earlier times, with the introduction of the above described, high warning and safety lights, the road and motor vehicle traffic was then only moderate to very moderate compared to today

to designate. This resulted automatically in comparison to today Longer vehicle distances and so soon every motor vehicle driver could the high safety and warning lights mentioned already from Perceiving from afar and thus knew that further ahead there was a pedestrian crossing comes.

As a result of today's ever increasing motor vehicle density the streets, where cars and trucks are often packed in columns drive up, there is usually no longer any view of the high ¥ arn and safety lights described above,

ie the view to the front is mainly taken by 3 - 4 m high trucks and thus endanger the life and health of the respective pedestrians to a considerable extent Pedestrians and their life and health ± _m completely • rhobliohün scope must be guaranteed. Improvements urgently needed: BAD ORIGINAL

The above-mentioned approximately 5 m high arc lamps must be removed Steep, become about the same place i.e. more at eye level of the force = ick drivers, on each side of the street a light pole about 3 m high

Light poles on / ever sets. ^! ) he ^top: ecause this Lichtmastens, ä.h. About a fifth of the top of the light pole is angled to the right against the lane, in order to significantly increase the viewing angle of the motor vehicles, which are often driving in columns today, in order for safety reasons to draw the attention of motor vehicles, which often drive one behind the other, to the fact that there in front a pedestrian crossing must come.

In order to save a lot of electricity, one can frequent veniger Pedestrian crossings in the respective light inasts Install a light barrier that only consumes a few Vatts at child height, and its function is coupled in such a way that it Light barrier only as long as the flashing lights light up until the respective pedestrians have reached the opposite side of the street.

Where appropriate, as with railroad crossings, one or two advance warning signs can be included at an appropriate distance Provide pedestrian signs, be hissed at.

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Claims (1)

Claims 1. In order to improve life and health at pedestrian crossings, with the increasing number of motor vehicle traffic on the streets today, more safely and to a considerable extent, especially with the ever increasing column traffic wherever Motor vehicles drive behind motor vehicles, characterized in that the previous approximately 5 m high arc lamps that illuminated the pedestrian crossings from above are removed Only about 3 m high light masts set. At the upper part of this light mast, which tapers upwards, i.e. the tip, about a fifth of this tapered light mast tip is correspondingly angled opposite the respective lane to the right in place of the previous reddish shining lamps, ρffezienzere red or in a conspicuously mixed color, l>] inl; lcvch υβη on the ruvor be = sch rubbed right and angled light pole tip are attached. BATH ORIGINAL -5- These flashing lights are mounted so that they are each Motorists, shortly before the pedestrian crossing, shine into their field of vision and thus very much on the safety of Pedestrian life and health on marked pedestrian crossings contribute. The ira claim 1. described at the approx. 3 egg high Angle the top of the light mast on the right with the flashing lights, is also intended for when the vehicles are moving in close columns the respective driver from a distance through the mentioned field of vision enlargement, through the clearly visible flashing lights, a clear indication that a pedestrian crossing can be made further ahead. In order to save a lot of electricity at less frequented pedestrian crossings, one can use the one described under claim 1 = 3 m high light masts, each at child height, install a light barrier that consumes only a few watts, so that is coupled with the flashing light that this turns on the flashing lights only until the pedestrians on the opposite on the lying side of the street. Vo it appears appropriate, characterized in that one as with unguarded railway crossings, with or ohae Leucht = colors, 1-2 Yorwarnschilder in appropriate Enfernxuag for respective pedestrian crossing with X 'pedestrian sign. BATH ORIGINAL