WO2013053061A1 - A stackable and hand transportable traffic management device - Google Patents

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WO2013053061A1
WO2013053061A1 PCT/CA2012/050717 CA2012050717W WO2013053061A1 WO 2013053061 A1 WO2013053061 A1 WO 2013053061A1 CA 2012050717 W CA2012050717 W CA 2012050717W WO 2013053061 A1 WO2013053061 A1 WO 2013053061A1
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Geoffrey Russell ARCHER
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Priority to KR1020147012529A priority patent/KR20140089540A/ko
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Priority to EP12839802.1A priority patent/EP2780509B1/en
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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
    • E01F9/623—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection
    • E01F9/654—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection in the form of three-dimensional bodies, e.g. cones; capable of assuming three-dimensional form, e.g. by inflation or erection to form a geometric body
    • 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
    • E01F9/619—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 with reflectors; with means for keeping reflectors clean
    • 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
    • E01F9/688—Free-standing bodies

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  • This invention relates to devices that provide a visual alert to persons for a variety of purposes, such as traffic management devices in the form of signals and indicators and often in the form of cones, and, more specifically to such devices constructed to be stackable and having structure for carrying a plurality thereof.
  • the present invention generally relates to traffic management devices.
  • Traffic management devices in the form of cones, commonly-known as parking cones, traffic cones, orange cones, etc., are well-known. These cones are typically portable and temporarily placed in a location as a visual alert to people who may be either or both pedestrians or vehicle operators. In this manner, cones are used to mark indoor and outdoor traffic hazards in various situations where vehicles or pedestrians must be redirected around emergency conditions.
  • these devices can be used to mark the perimeter of an area that requires temporary restricted access such as an accident or crime scene, or otherwise to loosely define areas such as an area for a specific use like an athletic field.
  • the term 'traffic management device' and variants thereof refers to all varieties and uses commonly understood for the above-referenced 'cones,' each of these terms being used for convenience herein.
  • the present invention relates to a traffic management device that can be stacked, stored and carried in a space-efficient manner.
  • a number of features for cones present certain difficulties.
  • Stacking cones is well-known as it lessens the amount of time that a worker has to spend carrying multiple devices and creates a safer way of transporting multiple and stacked devices to work-site near highway traffic. Cones rarely sit in a clean environment, typically being used on roads and highways and dirty floors, and carrying cones by their bases results in transferring the dirt to the carrier.
  • the present invention includes a handhold for carrying the cones in a portion at a distance from the base such that, by not having to grasp the bottom of the traffic management device, the worker is able to maintain hand hygiene.
  • One traffic management device that is a familiar item seen often on roadways is the traffic cone used to mark traffic lanes, and alert and redirect drivers around construction or accidents.
  • this traffic management device has no integrated means for grasping and carrying a plurality of stacked devices from a storage area to a work-site.
  • the present invention overcomes the limitations of traffic management devices by providing an improved traffic management device incorporating integrated carrying means whereby a worker can grasp and carry a plurality of stacked devices and, in preferred forms, do so using a single hand.
  • the traffic management device is furnished with at least one cut-out creating a handhold while at the same time not diminishing the visually attentive qualities, such as reflective qualities, of the traffic management that make it an effective traffic hazard signal.
  • the traffic management device is furnished with two cut-outs creating a suitcase handle-like carrying means.
  • the device and handhold are configured to permit a plurality of devices to be stacked such that the exterior body surface of an inferior-positioned of the plurality of devices is receivable within the interior space of a superior-positioned plurality of devices and at least a portion of the handhold of one device may be overlapped with the handhold of a second device to permit grasping of the devices simultaneously thereby.
  • the device further includes a registration structure permitting the inferior-positioned device to be received by the superior-positioned device in a predetermined orientation thereto.
  • the predetermined orientation including the handholds of the devices are at least partially overlapping.
  • the plurality of devices that can be stacked is up to six.
  • At least a portion of the body is generally conical and at least a portion of the body exterior surface is reflective. As well, at least a portion of the body interior surface is finished in manner consistent with the body exterior surface.
  • the base and body are configured so that the center of mass of the device is located within the base.
  • the handhold is generally rectangular having four sides. At least a portion of the handhold sides is configured for protecting a carrier grasping the device thereat.
  • the registration structure includes interior structure disposed on the interior surface and exterior structure disposed on the exterior surface such that the interior structure of a superior-positioned device cooperates with the exterior structure of an inferior-positioned device, the registration structure including a slot and a groove cooperatively engageable to align the devices in the predetermined orientation with at least a portion of the openings being overlapping.
  • the main advantage of the invention is that it permits multiple stacked traffic management devices to be carried from a storage area to a work-site in an efficient and safe manner using a single hand. There is no need to use a carrier or a caddy to move a plurality of stacked devices.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram of another embodiment of the invention.
  • Figure 3 is a diagram of the embodiment of Figure 1 in a stacked configuration.
  • Figure 4 is a diagram of the embodiment of Figure 2 in a stacked configuration.
  • Figure 5 is a diagram of one embodiment of the registration structure of one embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated one embodiment of the traffic management device of the present invention in the form of a traffic cone 100.
  • the traffic management device may be conical.
  • the traffic management device 200 comprises a pair of openings 220 and 222.
  • each of the bodies 102 and 202 have an interior space 103 and 203 defined by an interior surface 105 and 205 of the bodies 102 and 202 respectively.
  • the interior surfaces 105 and 205 have at least a portion thereof visible through the handhold openings 120, 220 and 222. Therefore, these visible portions of the interior surfaces of the bodies will be finished in a manner similar to the exterior surfaces 114 and 214 so as not to diminish the alert characteristics of the device to a visual observer.
  • the sides 126 to 132 of the handhold opening 120 may be structurally reinforced to facilitate carriage of the traffic management device by hand.
  • a hand-grasping or carrying frame 123 can be inserted into the rectangle to facilitate hand grasping without cutting the hand and to reinforce the load bearing area of the cut out.
  • the frame 121 engages all sides of the rectangle.
  • the frame can also be adjustable lengthwise so that it can fit and secure to stacked configurations of devices wherein the handhold is diminished by the overlapping devices. This is shown in Figure 4 item 423.
  • the worker can carry the single device right-side-up by inserting a single hand or even a pair of fingers to support the device from the side 132 of the handhold cutout120.
  • the worker can carry the single device upside-down by supporting the device from side 128 of the handhold.
  • this embodiment of the invention permits the worker to carry the device by a single hand in a convenient and safe hand-hold as represented by the rectangular cut out rather than by attempting to grasp the conical top of the device.
  • the devices illustrated include a base 106 and stacked bases 106 A to 106 D respectively which further include a portion 107 and stacked portions 107A to 107D [107A to 107C not illustrated] extending laterally outward from the body of each device.
  • the devices 100A to 100D and the handholds 120A to 120D are configured to permit a plurality of the devices to be stacked such that the exterior body surface [114A not illustrated] of an inferior positioned device [100A] of the plurality of stacked devices [100A to 100D] is receivable within the interior space [103B - not illustrated] of a superior positioned device [100B] of the plurality of stacked devices.
  • At least a portion of the handhold [120A] may be overlapped with the handhold [120B] of a second device [100B] to permit grasping of the stacked devices simultaneously.
  • a registration structure 140 and 140D respectively permits the inferior positioned device 100A to be received by the superior positioned device 100B in a predetermined orientation.
  • the predetermined orientation includes the handholds 120A and 120B of each of the respective devices being at least partially overlapping.
  • the registration structure 140 includes an interior structure 129 disposed on the interior surface 105 of a superior positioned device cooperating with an exterior structure 127 disposed on the exterior surface 114 of an inferior positioned device.
  • the exterior structure may be a slot and the interior structure may be a groove cooperatively engaging to align the devices in the predetermined orientation with at least of the openings 120A to 120D being overlapping.
  • a frame 423 [ Figure 4] may be securable within the handhold for grasping each handhold of the stacked devices.
  • the registration structure is located between the two openings and on the carrying member and comprises a slot 508 formed on the exterior side of a single device 510 and a groove 512 on the opposite side such that one of either the slot or groove of one device 510 registers with a groove or slot of a second device 514 so that a plurality of devices may be easily oriented in a stacked configuration by the worker so that that all of the cut outs 502 and 504 of the stacked configuration are aligned and carrier can grasp the carrying member 506 with a single hand.
  • the worker When placing one device on top another device, the worker need only rotate the device by hand to feel the inside groove/slot structure of the top placed device engage in registration with the corresponding groove/slot structure of the bottom disposed device and then drop the device into place.
  • a number of devices can be stacked and still provide for a grasping cut out 120 large enough for a hand to fit.
  • the traffic management device comprises a hollow truncated conical body 202 having a truncated apex 204 and a base 206.
  • the base has a portion 207 extending out from the body.
  • the base 206 may be weighted to ensure stability in wind and the centre of gravity (CoG) 211 of the device is located in the base.
  • the apex 204 and the base 203 are open.
  • the body of the device is fabricated and coated in the same manner as the embodiment shown in Figure 1.
  • the openings 220 and 222 are separated by a carrying handle 224.
  • FIG 3 there is shown in Figure 3 the device of Figure 2 (200) in a stacked configuration.
  • four devices 200A to 200D are in a stacked configuration.
  • the cut outs 220A to 220D and 222A to 222D and the handle members 224A to 224D of the four devices are disposed over each other as the devices are stacked.
  • the registration structure comprises an interior structure 229 and an exterior 227 structure.
  • the registration structure operates in the same manner as described with respect to Figures 5 so that one of either the slot or groove of a superior first device registers with a groove or slot of an inferior second device so that a plurality of devices may be easily oriented in a stacked configuration by the worker so that that all of the openings are aligned as shown in Figure 3.

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JP2014534899A JP6224598B2 (ja) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 積重ね可能および運搬可能な交通管理装置
CA2879217A CA2879217A1 (en) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 A stackable and hand transportable traffic management device
US14/350,757 US20140283733A1 (en) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 Stackable And Hand Transportable Traffic Management Device
KR1020147012529A KR20140089540A (ko) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 적층가능한 그리고 손으로 운반가능한 교통관리장치
AU2012323757A AU2012323757A1 (en) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 A stackable and hand transportable traffic management device
EP12839802.1A EP2780509B1 (en) 2011-10-11 2012-10-11 A stackable and hand transportable traffic management device
HK15102373.6A HK1201894A1 (en) 2011-10-11 2015-03-09 A stackable and hand transportable traffic management device

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