EP0216712B1 - Abschrankungen aus Metall, insbesondere zum Ausstatten von Strassenverkehrswegen - Google Patents

Abschrankungen aus Metall, insbesondere zum Ausstatten von Strassenverkehrswegen Download PDF

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EP0216712B1
EP0216712B1 EP86420210A EP86420210A EP0216712B1 EP 0216712 B1 EP0216712 B1 EP 0216712B1 EP 86420210 A EP86420210 A EP 86420210A EP 86420210 A EP86420210 A EP 86420210A EP 0216712 B1 EP0216712 B1 EP 0216712B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F15/00—Safety arrangements for slowing, redirecting or stopping errant vehicles, e.g. guard posts or bollards; Arrangements for reducing damage to roadside structures due to vehicular impact
    • E01F15/02—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes
    • E01F15/04—Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes essentially made of longitudinal beams or rigid strips supported above ground at spaced points
    • E01F15/0407—Metal rails
    • E01F15/0423—Details of rails
    • E01F15/043—Details of rails with multiple superimposed members; Rails provided with skirts
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01D—CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES, ELEVATED ROADWAYS OR VIADUCTS; ASSEMBLY OF BRIDGES
    • E01D19/00—Structural or constructional details of bridges
    • E01D19/10—Railings; Protectors against smoke or gases, e.g. of locomotives; Maintenance travellers; Fastening of pipes or cables to bridges
    • E01D19/103—Parapets, railings ; Guard barriers or road-bridges
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F9/00—Arrangement of road signs or traffic signals; Arrangements for enforcing caution
    • E01F9/60—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs
    • E01F9/658—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing
    • E01F9/669—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for fastening to safety barriers or the like

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  • the present invention relates to a metal barrier, in particular for equipping road traffic lanes.
  • Bridges and other overhead passages must be fitted with barriers forming a railing insofar as they allow not only the movement of vehicles, but also the passage of pedestrians. Insofar as such a barrier must serve for the possible restraint of a vehicle, it must meet very strict criteria of impact resistance. Barriers are also very often used in public or private places, for example at the edge of terraces to ensure the protection of people.
  • a traditional barrier includes posts fixed to the ground at regular intervals, carrying beams parallel to each other, the number of which depends on the height of the railing.
  • Each post includes a ground fixing plate and a post body on the front face of which the beams are fixed.
  • Most often the post is made of several parts welded to each other, and the lower plate is independent of the body of the post and fixed thereon by welding.
  • this type of manufacturing requires a large number of successive operations and is therefore very expensive to implement, such a barrier does not offer perfect guarantees of safety, since in the event of an impact, the tilting torque exerted on a post sometimes results in the separation of the latter from the plate which remains, for its part, fixed to the ground.
  • the railing posts most often have a specific shape at their height, so that it is not possible to fix the same beam on posts of different sizes, if the use of posts different sizes is made necessary, for example, due to a slope of the ground.
  • the document FR-A-2 313 503 relates to a barrier comprising a certain number of posts arranged at regular intervals and on one face of which beams are fixed.
  • Each post consists of a metal plate forming a flat front face intended for the support of the beams and a U-shaped section profile, of height corresponding to that of the post and whose spacing of the wings of the U is less than that of the plate forming the front face, this profile being fixed to the plate by welding.
  • the present invention relates to a barrier of this type, in which the metal plate, forming the front face, is folded so as to form a lower return constituting the sole for fixing to the ground, the metal profile also being fixed by welding to the sole.
  • This barrier has the advantage that the posts are very simple to produce since they consist of two metal elements fixed to one another by welding, the profiled element ensuring the stiffening of the plate forming the front face and the sole.
  • this post is extremely safe since, given its structure, the ground fixing plate cannot in any case be detached from its front face.
  • its front face is absolutely not dangerous or aggressive for a projected body or for vehicle tires, since it does not have stiffening parts projecting forward as is the case in certain traditional posts. .
  • the assembly of the beams is carried out in a very simple way since the fixing of these intervenes at the level of bores made in the front face of the main metal plate on either side of the U-profile which makes access with extremely easy fixing means.
  • the barrier according to the invention comprises a number of posts (3a, 3b, 3c) supporting horizontal beams (4), the number of which depends on the height of the posts. supporting.
  • the barrier being mounted on a wall (5) comprising several elevations in height, several types of posts of different heights are used, the posts (3a) being of height greater than those of the posts ( 3b) which are themselves higher than that of the posts (3c).
  • the structure of the different types of posts is the same.
  • Each post is made from two main elements, namely a metal plate (6) folded so as to form a flat and vertical front face (7), comprising two returns (8) and (9) respectively at its lower end and at its upper end.
  • the front face comprises, near its lower end, an outward recess forming a nose (10).
  • the second component of this post is a U-shaped metal profile (12) whose section increases from top to bottom. It should be noted that the spacing between the wings of the U-shaped profile is less than the width of the plate metallic, so that it provides in the latter two lateral zones in which the holes (13) for fixing the healds (4) are located.
  • the profile (12) is fixed by welding at (14) along the front face (7), as well as along the returns (8 and 9) of the main metal plate (6). On the profile (12) are fixed by welding two tabs (15) intended to close off the lateral openings located at the level of the two recesses (10).
  • the U-shaped profile has on each of its branches two ribbed folds (16) facing outwards.
  • the fact that the profile (12) is embedded between the returns (8) and (9) of the plate (6) avoids any risk of sliding of the profile relative to the plate in the event of accidental failure of the welds.
  • the general structure of the three posts (3a, 3b, 3c) is exactly the same, apart from the dimensional differences, the post (3a) allowing the attachment of three rails, that (3b) of two rails, and that (3c) of a single stringer.
  • the structure of these posts is interesting, in that it allows, as shown in Figure 1 to align several posts of different heights, to fix on them a continuous rail.
  • the three types of posts each have, in the lower return (8) forming a plate, several holes (17) (four in the example of the drawing) allowing the post to be fixed to the ground. Given the presence of the recess (10) formed at the lower end of each post, the holes (17) located on the side of the front of the post can be offset substantially forward relative to the case where the lower part of the post would be straight, which promotes the resistance of the post to tearing when a shock is exerted on it on the side of the taxiway.
  • this barrier comprises simple and aesthetic means for fixing the healds on the posts and for connecting the healds together.
  • each stringer (4) has in its face turned towards the posts a longitudinal slot (18) opening into a longitudinal slot (19) of enlarged section, in the bottom of which is formed, facing the slot ( 18), a recess (20), as shown in FIG. 7.
  • the face of the heddle (4) opposite the fixing face on the posts for its part comprises a longitudinal recess (21).
  • the connection between two heddles (4) arranged end to end is carried out by internal sleeving.
  • a profile (22) is engaged in the two sections of heddle (4) to be joined, where it is blocked by screwing.
  • a screw (23) is engaged in the heald (4) and in the sleeving profile (22), on the outside of the heald, this screw being blocked by a nut which is received in the recess (20) of the heald .
  • a longitudinal strip (24) with decorative or signaling effect, fixed by snap-fastening by elastic deformation can be engaged in the longitudinal groove-shaped housing (21).
  • the fixing of a rail at a hole (13) formed in a post is made by a screw (25) whose head (26), housed in the recess (20) of the heald is supported on a plate (27) housed in the slot (19) of the heald, this screw being locked on the post by a nut (28).
  • this barrier can be very easily fitted, as shown in FIG. 2, with a grid (29) situated for example in front of the heddles (4).
  • a grid (29) situated for example in front of the heddles (4).
  • lugs (30) and (32) fixed respectively on a point of attachment of the top arm, and on a point of attachment of the bottom arm or of the support, these lugs being equipped at their free ends with known devices for attaching and tensioning the mesh.
  • the invention brings a great improvement to the existing technique by providing a barrier made from simple structural elements, susceptible of numerous possibilities of adaptations according to the site to be equipped, having excellent qualities of mechanical resistance as well as a very pleasant aesthetic.

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1. Abschrankung oder Leitplanke (2) mit einer bestimmten Anzahl von Stützen (3a, b, c), die auf einer Fläche (7) in regelmässigem Abstand angeordnet und an welchen Schienen oder Leisten (4) befestigt sind, wobei jede Stütze aus einer Metallplatte (6), die zur Bildung einer ebenen Vorderfläche (7) zwecks Halterung der Schienen oder Leisten (4) umgebogen ist, und einem U-Profil (12) besteht, dessen Höhe derjenigen der Stützen entspricht und dessen Flanschenabstand kleiner ist als die Breite der die Vorderfläche und Grundplatte bildenden Platte, und wobei dieses Metallprofil (12) auf die Platte (6) an der Vorderfläche (7) aufgeschweißt ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die die Vorderfläche bildende Metallplatte (6) zu einer Grundplatte für die Befestigung auf dem Boden abgebogen und das Metallprofil (12) außerdem an die Grundplatte (8) angeschweißt ist.
2. Leitplanke gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß im Bereich des Anschlusses zwischen dem die Vorderfläche (7) der einzelnen Stützen bildenden Teil und dem die Grundplatte bildenden Teil (8) mit einer gegenüber der Vorderfläche der Stütze nasenförmig vorspringenden Abschrägung (10) versehen ist.
3. Leitplanke gemäß Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die die Vorderfläche der einzelnen Stützen bildende Metallplatte (6) an ihrem oberen Ende mit einem abgebogenen Steg (9) zur Abdeckung der Oberseite des U-förmigen Verstärkungsprofils (12) versehen ist.
4. Leitplanke gemäß Anspruch 1, 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Querschnitt des U-Profils an den einzelnen Stützen sich von oben nach unten verstärkt und die Flanschen dieses Profils jeweils mit zwei gerippten und nach außen gewendeten Längsfalzen (16) versehen sind.
5. Leitplanke gemäß Anspruch 1, 2, 3 oder 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die die Vorderfläche der einzelnen Stützen bildende Metallplatte (6) mit Bohrungen (13) zur Befestigung der Schienen oder Leisten (4) an den Flanschen des U-förmigen Verstärkungsprofils (12) versehen ist.
6. Leitplanke gemäß Anspruch 1, 2, 3, 4 oder 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Schiene oder Leiste (4) in ihrer Fläche zur Befestigung an den Stützen (3a, 3b, 3c) mit einem Längsschlitz (18) versehen ist, der mit einem breiteren Längsschlitz (19) in Verbindung steht, wobei in dem Grund des Schlitzes (19) eine längsgerichtete Ausparung (20) vorgesehen ist.
EP86420210A 1985-08-27 1986-08-05 Abschrankungen aus Metall, insbesondere zum Ausstatten von Strassenverkehrswegen Expired EP0216712B1 (de)

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FR8513160A FR2586724B1 (fr) 1985-08-27 1985-08-27 Barriere metallique, notamment pour l'equipement de voies de circulation routiere

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