EP1860242A2 - Ortsfestes, zylindrisches Verkehrszeichen für vertikale Signalisierung - Google Patents

Ortsfestes, zylindrisches Verkehrszeichen für vertikale Signalisierung Download PDF

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EP1860242A2
EP1860242A2 EP06127380A EP06127380A EP1860242A2 EP 1860242 A2 EP1860242 A2 EP 1860242A2 EP 06127380 A EP06127380 A EP 06127380A EP 06127380 A EP06127380 A EP 06127380A EP 1860242 A2 EP1860242 A2 EP 1860242A2
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Francisco Javier Alday Lesaga
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Celaya Emparanza y Galdos Internacional SA
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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
    • 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
    • E01F9/673—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like
    • E01F9/677—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like the sign posts being removable without tools, e.g. of stud-and-socket type
    • 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
    • E01F9/604—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs specially adapted for particular signalling purposes, e.g. for indicating curves, road works or pedestrian crossings
    • E01F9/608—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs specially adapted for particular signalling purposes, e.g. for indicating curves, road works or pedestrian crossings for guiding, warning or controlling traffic, e.g. delineator posts or milestones
    • 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
    • E01F9/673—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like
    • E01F9/681—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like the sign posts being fastened by removable means, e.g. screws or bolts
    • 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
    • E01F9/673—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by means for fixing for holding sign posts or the like
    • E01F9/685—Subsoil means, e.g. foundations

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  • the present invention relates to a permanent cylindrical deformable road sign for vertical signalling, comprising a base anchorable to the ground and a vertical body made of flexible plastic that can be fastened to said base, so that reciprocal coupling means are formed in the base and the vertical body, said coupling means being bayonet rotatable and allowing the vertical body to be removed from the base.
  • the base and the vertical body cooperate with a third part or anti-turn locker adequate to be placed between the base and the vertical body when the latter is fastened to the former, said anti-turn locker being releasable from its blocking position with an anti-theft key.
  • the anti-turn locker is provided with an elastic arm that, when the rotation movement for coupling the vertical body and the base is completed, is able to reach a position in which it is rigidly interposed in the path of the rotation movement for removing the vertical body from the base.
  • the elastic arm prevents the uncoupling of the vertical body from the base after they have been coupled.
  • the elastic arm comprises an appendix that protrudes from the anti-turn locker. Said appendix cooperates with the anti-theft key for lowering the elastic arm of the anti-turn locker when uncoupling the vertical body from the base.
  • the vertical body comprises a male terminal having two flanges
  • the base comprises a cylindrical housing and two projections protruding into the cylindrical housing from the walls thereof, said projections cooperating with the flanges in order to provide the bayonet coupling.
  • the male terminal is formed in a narrower lower portion of the vertical body. In this way, the elasticity of the coupling of the elastic body and the base is improved.
  • the anti-turn locker comprises a plate that, when the anti-turn locker is placed between the vertical body and the base, rests on the bottom of the cylindrical housing.
  • Said plate has vertical lugs that project from the lower plane of the plate, said lower plane being the rest surface on the bottom of the cylindrical housing.
  • the anti-theft key in order to remove the vertical body from the base, it is intended for the anti-theft key to have a flange that, when rotating, may contact the appendix and lower it together with the elastic arm, thus releasing the coupling of the vertical body and the base.
  • the base comprises a passageway that allows the insertion of the anti-theft key.
  • the vertical body comprises, in its upper portion, diametrically opposed concavities, the upper walls of said concavities presenting indentations adapted to the user's fingers.
  • a road sign according to the invention is a vertical road sign in which the base and the vertical body are formed with reciprocal means for rotatably coupling an uncoupling them, by way of a bayonet engagement.
  • Said reciprocal means operate in conjunction with a third piece or anti-turn locker, which is placed between the base and the vertical body.
  • the means for rotatably coupling and uncoupling the base and the body are such that the vertical body forms, at its lower end, a male terminal which presents two opposing flat sidewalls which are related by two opposing flanges which are shaped as screw threads that, after a quarter of a turn, can be pressure-fitted under two projections facing each other.
  • Said projections are spaced by a distance somewhat larger than the distance between the flat sidewalls of the male terminal, and enter a cylindrical housing that is formed in the base and has a diameter which exceeds a little the diameter defined by the flanges.
  • the anti-turn locker is a plate that has an outline reciprocal to the outline defined by the edges of the projections and the curved portions of the wall of the cylindrical housing, said curved portions extending between these projections.
  • Said plate leans on the bottom of the cylindrical housing and, in one of the walls of the latter not having any projection, is provided with an elastic arm that extends upwards and has a lateral edge arranged next to the position that is occupied by one of the flat sidewalls of the male terminal when the quarter of turn of its engagement with the base is completed.
  • the elastic arm has an appendix that is located in a cavity formed in the wall of the cylindrical housing and is communicated with the periphery of the base around the cylindrical housing by means of a passageway that allows to insert an anti-theft key.
  • the male terminal is inserted into the cylindrical housing of the base by having its flat sidewalls to go through the projections that enter the housing.
  • the male terminal reaches the bottom of the cylindrical housing, it also presses down the elastic arm of the anti-turn locker, pushing it down to the bottom; then the vertical body is rotated and the flanges of the male terminal are pressure-fitted under the projections, so that the vertical body stops pressing the elastic arm and the latter returns to its raised position in which its lateral edge lays next to the corresponding flat sidewall of the male terminal, thus preventing it to be rotated in the opposite sense and, therefore, granting the safety of the coupling against possible attempts of disassembly by way of fun or vandalism.
  • the process is carried out by the insertion of the anti-theft key, or a similar tool, into the passageway in order to push down the appendix of the elastic arm, so that the latter goes down and releases the possibility of carrying out a rotation opposite to the assembly rotation.
  • the vertical body In order to facilitate the gripping of the vertical body when assembling or disassembling the road sign, the vertical body is provided with diametrically opposite concavities with a section in the form of a "C", said concavities having in their upper wall indentations ergonomic with respect to the fingers of the user. Also ergonomically, these concavities are at a distance from the upper end of the vertical body that is suitable for laying the palms of both hands of the user when the corresponding fingers are well placed in the indentations.
  • the plate of the anti-turn locker comprises vertical lugs that project from its inferior plane, where the plate leans on the bottom of the cylindrical housing, and face each other at a distance a little larger than the distance between vertical walls formed at the bottom of this cylindrical housing.
  • the male terminal is formed in a narrower lower portion of the vertical body and determines a neck in conjunction with the base. This configuration helps the vertical body to be elastically deformed when it is kicked down by a vehicle, in contrast to other known solutions in which the vertical body is uniformly cylindrical all along from top to bottom.
  • a road sign according to the invention is generally configured as a deformable road sign comprising a base 1 anchored to the ground by anchoring elements operating through bores 1.5 made in the base 1, and a vertical body 2 which is fastened to the base 1 and is made of flexible plastic.
  • the essential object of the invention is (figure 1) that the base 1 and the vertical body 2 are formed with reciprocal means for rotatably coupling an uncoupling them, by way of a bayonet engagement, said reciprocal means operating in conjunction with a third piece or anti-turn locker 3, which is placed between the base 1 and the vertical body 2.
  • the means for rotatably coupling and uncoupling the base and the body are such that (figures 1 and 3 and 5) the vertical body 2 forms, at its lower end, a male terminal 4 which presents two opposing flat sidewalls 4.1 which are related by two opposing flanges 4.2 which are shaped as screw threads that, after a quarter of a turn, can be pressure-fitted under two projections 5 facing each other.
  • said projections 5 are spaced by a distance somewhat larger than the distance between the flat sidewalls 4.1 of the male terminal 4, and enter a cylindrical housing 1.1 that is formed in the base 1 and has a diameter which exceeds a little the diameter defined by the flanges 4.2.
  • the anti-turn locker 3 is formed (figures 2 to 5) by a plate that has an outline reciprocal to the outline defined by the edges of the projections 5 and the curved portions of the wall of the cylindrical housing 1.1, said curved portions extending between these projections 5.
  • Said plate leans on the bottom of the cylindrical housing 1.1 and, in one of the walls of the latter not having any projection 5, is provided with an elastic arm 3.1 that extends upwards and has a lateral edge 3.2 arranged next to the position that is occupied by one of the flat sidewalls 4.1 of the male terminal 4 when the quarter of turn of its engagement with the base 1 is completed.
  • the elastic arm 3.1 has an appendix 3.3 that is located in a cavity 1.2 formed in the wall of the cylindrical housing 1.1 and is communicated with the periphery of the base 1 around the cylindrical housing by means of a passageway 1.3 that allows to insert an anti-theft key 6 (figure 3).
  • Figures 14 to 16 illustrate the operation and operativity of the invention as have been described above, said operation being particularly simple. It is assumed that the base 1 is anchored to the ground by anchoring means applied to holes 1.5; then the anti-turn locker 3 is inserted in the cylindrical housing 1.1 of the base 1, so that the appendix 3.3 of the elastic arm 3.1 is placed in cavity 1.2. This is feasible by virtue of the general shape of the cylindrical housing 1.1 and the elasticity of the 1.1 anti-turn locker 3.
  • the vertical body 2 is inserted in the cylindrical housing 1.1 so that the flat sidewalls 4.1 of the male terminal 4 go (figure 14) through the projections 5, the elastic arm 3.1 of the anti-turn locker 3 being pushed down (figure 15) by the lower side of the male terminal 4 and ending at the same level than the rest of the body of the anti-turn locker 3.
  • the vertical body 2 is rotated a quarter of turn until reaching the final position of assembly indicated in figure 16, where the elastic arm 3.1 is not pushed down and by its own elastic nature returns upwards to its natural position (as shown in figures 1 to 5), in which its lateral edge 3.2 lays next to one of the flat sidewalls 4.1 of the male terminal 4, preventing it from being disassembled by a rotation in the opposite sense to that of the assembly rotation.
  • the vertical body 2 comprises diametrically opposite concavities 2.1, which have a section shaped as a "C" that in its upper wall form indentations 2.2 ergonomic with respect to the fingers of the user.
  • These concavities 2.1 are, also in an ergonomic way, at a distance from the upper end of the vertical body 2 that is suitable for laying the palms of both hands of the user when the corresponding fingers are accommodated in the indentations 2.2.
  • the assembly handling does not require any tool, and the disassembly handling only requires inserting the anti-theft key so as to push the elastic arm 3.1 through the appendix 3.3 specially designed for this function.
  • the invention to have means that by mere assembly, without using any tools, manages the correct immobilization of the anti-turn locker 3 to the bottom of the cylindrical housing 1.1 of the base 1.
  • These means consist in that (see figures 1 to 5 and 13) the plate of the anti-turn locker 3 comprises vertical lugs 3.4 that project from its inferior plane, where the plate leans on the bottom of the cylindrical housing 1.1, and face each other at a distance a little larger than the distance between vertical walls 1.4 formed at the bottom of this cylindrical housing 1.1.
  • the male terminal 4 is formed in a narrower lower portion of the vertical body 2 and determines a neck in conjunction with the base 1.
  • This configuration helps the vertical body 2 to lie down when it is shoved by a vehicle and to recover later its upright position without enduring a significant damage, in accordance with the characteristics required by the norm of vertical signalling UNE NORM 135363:1998.
  • the signs having a cylindrical body with equal nominal diameter from top to bottom have a much bigger moment of inertia and, although they may recover elastically after being forcibly reclined, the damage they endure is much greater.
  • the anti-theft key 6 is intended for the anti-theft key 6 to be made having a flange 6a that when rotating may find in its trajectory the appendix 3.3 of the elastic arm 3.1, making it to go downwards and releasing the locking of the vertical body, as can be seen in figures 20, 21 and 22.

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EP06127380A 2005-12-30 2006-12-29 Ortsfestes, zylindrisches Verkehrszeichen für vertikale Signalisierung Not-in-force EP1860242B1 (de)

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PL06127380T PL1860242T3 (pl) 2005-12-30 2006-12-29 Stały cylindryczny znak drogowy do sygnalizacji pionowej

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ES200503257A ES2302594B1 (es) 2005-12-30 2005-12-30 Baliza cilindrica permanente para señalizacion vertical de carretera.

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GB2485194A (en) * 2010-11-05 2012-05-09 Glasdon Ltd Releasably coupled post and socket assembly
GB2485194B (en) * 2010-11-05 2018-01-31 Glasdon (Uk) Ltd A post and socket assembly
GB2533551A (en) * 2014-12-10 2016-06-29 Itab Shop Products Uk Ltd Replaceable post assembly
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WO2018078398A1 (en) * 2016-10-31 2018-05-03 Traffic Management Products Limited Bollard base assembly
GB2571660A (en) * 2016-10-31 2019-09-04 Traffic Man Products Limited Bollard base assembly
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EP4328402A1 (de) * 2022-08-22 2024-02-28 Aftercloud Technology Co., Ltd Mittelpolbefestigungsstruktur

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ES2302594B1 (es) 2009-05-20
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