Abstract: A barrier is formed from one or more intermediate posts situated between a pair of end posts. Long flexible cables interconnect the end posts and extend adjacent each intermediate post. Each cable is wrapped one or more times around each post. End posts may include dual columns that permit cable windings around both columns. A spike embedded within the end of each cable enhances the purchase that can be gained by a clamp that presses the cable against the end post. The clamp has contact elements with converging side walls that grip the cable near the spike. To maintain the spike in place, a wire rope clip grips the cable over a constriction in its contained spike. Each cable is enclosed by a cable cover extending between adjacent posts. The cable cover is suspended at each post by a pair of tiltable hangers.

Abstract: A cable barrier assembly or system can include line posts extending along a barrier section. Cables can extend along the line posts. In addition, each line post can have a total number of cable retention features that is less than a total number of the cables. Each cable retention feature can include at least a partial loop that limits a range of radial motion of a cable extending through an eye of the partial loop, relative to an axis of the cable.

Abstract: A drop base irrigation device includes a substantially vertical pipeline section, which is adapted to be secured to a truss of an irrigation system by a substantially horizontal supporting rod, and a support having a substantially U-shaped bracket. The bracket includes a pair of side walls and a curved connecting wall extending along a substantially horizontal axis. The side and connecting walls have substantially cylindrical smooth inner surfaces with substantially parallel opposed projections for snap-fit locking engagement of the rod in the bracket. A pair of curved appendages extend from one of the side walls and define a pair of substantially vertical seats with oppositely directed concavities for receiving the substantially vertical pipeline section and locking it by rotation about a substantially horizontal axis. A method of mounting a drop base irrigation device to a supporting rod of an irrigation system.

Abstract: An anchorless crash cushion apparatus having a plurality of interconnected water-filled crash cushion elements and a non-water filled forward-most cushion element includes vehicle capture structure resisting upward tilting of a frontally impacting vehicle and ramping of the frontally impacting vehicle and stabilizing structure resisting relative rotation between the crash cushion elements in both vertical and lateral planes during vehicle impact. External elongated deformable structural members extend along the sides of the crash cushion elements and bend outwardly away from the crash cushion elements during frontal vehicle impact.

Abstract: A guard cable for a road, includes a plurality of wire ropes extending in a horizontal direction with respect to a plurality of supports provided on the side of the road at intervals. The wire ropes are shifted to a predetermined width from the supports to the roadway by a wire rope protrusion installation unit. The plurality of wire ropes provided between the supports are maintained at constant intervals by an interval maintenance plate.

Abstract: A guardrail extruder head includes: top and bottom feeder channels; an impact plate; a top plate connecting the impact plate to the top feeder channel; a bottom plate connecting the impact plate to the bottom feeder channel; a front extruder plate coupled between the top and bottom plates; a curved deflector plate attached to the front extruder plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a front brace on the front extruder plate near the curved deflector plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a back extruder plate opposite to the front extruder plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a front side plate and a back side plate positioned between the top and bottom feeder channels; a back brace on the back extruder plate near the feeder channels and coupled between the top and bottom plates; and an impact force transfer brace coupled to the front brace and the impact plate.

Abstract: A sliding type clamp includes a clamp fixing part adapted to be fixed to a stud bolt, and a clamp body adapted to clamp an objected member. The clamp fixing part and the clamp body are integrally formed. The clamp fixing part has a first sliding structure which slides along a direction perpendicular to an axis of the stud bolt. The clamp body has a second sliding structure which slides with respect to the objected member along a longitudinal direction of the objected member.

Abstract: An adapter device for radiation protective garments includes a user engagement unit that is interposed between a lower member and an upper member via a connector. The lower member includes a generally curved main body having two shafts extending upward. The user engagement unit includes an upper shoulder strap having a pair of shaft apertures. The upper member includes a generally curved main body having another pair of shaft apertures and a protrusion extending from the top surface of the upper member. The lower member, upper member and user engagement unit are functionally secured by a pair of shaft connectors.

Abstract: A retainer (10a, 10b, 10c) for a wire rope road safety barrier, comprising a plurality of posts (14), is provided for supporting one or more wire ropes (12) above the ground. The retainer comprises an arm (16a, 16b) for embracing at least half of a circumference of the post whereby the retainer can be held on the post at a position along its length. The retainer also comprises a frangible or yieldable tab (18) extending from the arm for retaining the wire rope against the post.

Abstract: A mounting module for a rope light system which easily attaches to the surfaces of an interior corner of a structure that can retain and support a rope light without the need of a junction or brake in the rope light by holding the rope light in a flexure curve that does not stress the LEDS or electrical conductors of the rope light.

Abstract: A guardrail block includes an attachable support for signage, such as a reflector. The reflector may be mountable on the support, and the support may be integrated with a base or may be separate and attached to the base. For example, a support may be snap fit into the base and the base can be slip fitted into recessed channels formed in elongated extensions extending from a top surface of the guardrail block. The guardrail block may be made of a synthetic foam material, the support and base may be die injection molded, and the reflector may be reflective tape adhered to a surface of the support, for example.

Abstract: A guardrail includes a cable routing device providing a tortuous path for at least one tensioned cable, the cable routing device includes a bar having a rotational axis and including a cable entry port having a circumference slightly larger than the cable which passes directly therethrough when the bar is in a first non-cable gripping orientation in which the diameter of the port (diametric width) is substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the cable, and wherein rotation of the bar about the axis effectively decreases the width of the port relative to the width of the cable to create a second cable-gripping orientation which provides the tortuous path, wherein the tortuous path through the bar is due to the relative decrease in the effective diametric width of the port and this provides sufficient frictional resistance to movement in relation to the cable during impact to facilitate impact energy dissipation.

Abstract: An improved guard rail system spacer block having a front face, a rear face and an outer circumferential undulating surface surrounding a plurality of individual spaced apart cavities that extend from one of such faces to the other. Lugs project from the rear face to support the block on a post of a roadway guard rail system and align it with the post during installation of the system and a lug projects from the front face to temporarily support a guard rail strip during installation of the guard rail system.

Abstract: Guardrail installation designs are described that incorporate a box beam rail as the structural rail member. The box beam rail member may have an open cross-section or a closed cross-section. An impact head is provided to bend and deflect the rail member during an end-on collision, allowing the rail member to be deflected away from the roadway and out of the path of an end-on impacting vehicle. The impact head includes a striking face and a chute portion that receives the box beam rail member therewithin. In addition to bending and deflecting the rail member, the impact head may also include a flattening section for flattening the rail member.

Abstract: The present invention is a kit or a channel system useful for the removable mounting (installation and removal) of ornamental light strings onto buildings such as houses, offices, stores, and the like. The system according to the present invention has at least one, preferably a series of, display channel pieces, or tracks, that are attached to a surface of a building, such as a house, store, office, or the like. The channel pieces are coupled together with coupling tabs. Slide mounts moveably fit within, and work with, channels within the channel pieces and are used to moveably secure ornamental light strings to the system when in use. Beveled edges located on distal ends of projections on the channel pieces allow for variable positioning of light strings using the channels system of the present invention. A slide mount guide is used to urge the mounted light string from a storage channel piece to the display channel pieces.

Abstract: An end treatment for a thrie-beam type guardrail and a safety device specifically oriented toward trucks, vans and other utility vehicles having high profiles and centers of gravity. A slotted thrie-beam terminal is featured for use with highway guardrail systems. At least one reinforced slotted section is provided within the thrie-beam terminal to reduce the ability of the thrie beam to resist buckling in response to an axial type loading from end-on impacts. The terminal also provides for gating of laterally impacting vehicles. The terminal incorporates a break-away support post cable release mechanism which lessens risk to impacting vehicles which impact the lead post.

Abstract: A road crash barrier including a wooden rail (1), which may be formed of horizontal rail elements (3) assembled end to end, supported by posts (2). The rail (1) is covered over a portion of its surface by elongate plane rectangular plates (5) of small section which are fixed against a surface of the rail (1) facing away from the road traffic axis (13). The rectangular plates lie in the horizontal plane that includes the axis of the rail, and may include one or more deformation zones formed by a fold in the plate. At ends of the rectangular plates (5) are holes through which bolts (9) pass to fix a plate to an adjacent coupling plate, and the associated wooden element (3). At least one end of some of the plates have elongate shape holes (12).

Abstract: A bracket for mounting a roadway guardrail to a post adjacent a roadway involves a generally rectangular backing member having an inwardly-extending flange extending along each of the upper and lower edges thereof. The bracket can be interposed between, preferably, a W-shaped guardrail and the post with the upper and lower edges of the guardrail being located adjacent the upper and lower flanges of the bracket respectively. The normal guardrail-mounting bolt will extend through the guardrail, a central aperture in the bracket, and the mounting post for clamping the guardrail end bracket to the post. Upon the impact, particularly sliding impact from a snowplow or the like, the upper and lower edges of the guardrail will contact the flanges and further deformation thereof will be resisted by the flanges. Thus the guardrail which would otherwise be detrimentally deformed by minor impacts will now retain its shock-absorbing capabilities, such detrimental having been resisted by the back of the invention.

Abstract: A tubular shock-absorbing device including a post, a block having a curved surface for engagement with the post and having a waved surface, both ends of the block having reinforcing flanges which are cast into form integrally, a curb which has a waved shape being engaged with the waved surface of the block, and a bolt fixing the curb and the block and the post together, so that the block forms a buffer.

Abstract: A safe road railing having a horizontal cushion tube provided with a plurality of petaloid elements curving outward to engage a fence plate and absorb shocks received by the plate.

Abstract: A guard rail has at least one horizontal rail composed of rail elements made of wood, and wooden posts coupled to the rail. Each post supports each of the two adjacent elements of the rail. Each element of the rail is provided with a metal connecting member at its ends for connection to the adjacent end of an adjacent element in the rail. The connecting member comprises at least one tubular, metal member retained approximately halfway in two recesses provided in each of the two adjacent ends of two successive elements of the rail.

Abstract: A collapsible roadway impact attenuator includes an array of spaced parallel support elements arranged to move axially when the attenuator is struck by impacting vehicle. Elastomeric energy absorbing sheets are rigidly secured between adjacent support elements so as to extend axially and horizontally. When the attenuator is struck axially by a vehicle, the support elements move towards one another and the energy absorbing sheets form at least three inflections, thereby enhancing energy absorbing efficiency of the attenuator. Tethers can be mounted between overlying elastomeric sheets to increase the number of inflections and the energy efficiency of the attenuator.

Abstract: Road safety guardrails are constituted by vertical wooden posts carrying at least one horizontal rail made up of wooden logs which are connected end-to-end by pairs of metal straps which are interconnected by bolts, each passing through both straps and one or other of the logs. Each inter-log connection is reinforced by incorporating metal rods that run through each log and intersect the diametrical plane containing the bolts for interconnecting the straps.

Abstract: A fence structure is provided for the containment of horses and the like, employing in combination with wooden vertical posts a plurality of vertically spaced and generally parallel disposed horizontal metal rails fixedly secured to the wooden posts by readily attachable support means, preferably provided by clamp means substantially encircling each of said metal rails and maintained therearound by fastening means in intimate engagement with the wooden posts. In a specific exemplary embodiment of the invention, the support means may take the form of brace bands in combination with pole barn nails.

Abstract: A support device which is particularly adapted to join a length of rope to a structural member of a building, for example, has a body prepared for ready attachment to the structural member. Projecting outwardly from the body of the device is a set of spaced apart clips. Each clip is defined by an outer strap spaced from the device body and joined thereto by a connecting strap to form a holding area for the rope. The clips are positioned in an opposing manner so that each clip holding area faces in an opposite direction. The outer strap of each clip has an angularly offset wall. These walls are spaced apart and positioned parallel to form an opening to a rope passageway defined by alignment of the clip holding areas. During use the support device is attached to the structural member and an end of the rope length threaded through the passageway to seat in the clip holding areas and be supported horizontally therein.

Abstract: An improvement to an energy absorbing guard rail terminal for use on longitudinally extending roadways. The energy absorbing guard rail terminal having a number of overlapping horizontally extending parallel guard rails positioned on oppositely disposed sides of a plurality of longitudinally spaced break away posts with the upstream ends of the guard rails secured to the post. Splice bolts connect the overlapping ends of adjacent rails which are characterized by a plurality of openings within each horizontal rail aligned with the splice bolts whereby the impact of the vehicle on the upstream end of the rails will force the bolts to shred out the rail material between the openings within the rails. By absorbing the kinetic energy of the impacting vehicle, the collapseable guard rail terminal allows for safe deceleration of the vehicle upon impact, avoiding serious injury to the driver.

Abstract: This invention, being an improvement on the kind of fixed road railing adopted widely now, provides a new system of replaceable road railing comprising mainly of an underground sleeve, into which a pillar is inserted, a pillar with blades at its bottom, and a device inside the pillar which, by means of its upward and downward movement, controls the expanding and contracting movement of the blades of the pillar and, as a result, causes the blades to tighten against or loosen from the inner surface of the sleeve and, thus the pillar can be easily inserted into the sleeve or taken out from it thereby.

Abstract: A guard rail assembly for a highway. A sliding frame is mounted on each of a series of posts. The sliding frame slides transversely of the guard rail assembly. Elongated guard rail units span adjacent posts. Each guard rail unit includes an elongated support plate, hanger means on the sliding frames of the adjacent posts for supporting opposed end portions of the support plates, a sliding plate mounted on the support plate for frictional engagement therewith, and shock absorber means on each of the sliding frames for resisting movement thereof transversely of the guard rail assembly. The sliding plate can be engaged by a vehicle leaving the highway. The vehicle is restrained by the sliding plate and by resistance of the shock absorber means.

Abstract: The invention relates to crash barriers for roads or highways comprising a horizontal guard rail supported by posts. The guard rail and the posts are made up of wooden poles. The rail elements are assembled end to end by means of two fish-plates which are disposed on either side of the poles and across the junction between two poles, said fish-plates being secured by bolts traversing the two fish-plates and one pole.

Abstract: A clamp for supporting a plurality of horizontally spaced highway guard cables against a wooden post, such clamp comprising a plate member presenting a flat portion and a plurality of spaced apart recesses adapted to freely slidingly retain said plurality of highway guard cables against said post respectfully, said plate member including a series of apertures staggered along two opposing edges thereof, said apertures adapted to receive nails for fastening said clamp to said post so as to minimize splitting of said wooden posts.

Abstract: A vehicle crash barrier is designed to provide a progressively increasing resistance to impact. In one embodiment a rail (12) is mounted on upright posts (10) by means of dual connecting elements (13,14) the rear elements (13) being of rectangular box section and relatively stiff while the front elements (14) are of hexagonal cross-section and therefore more easily deformed. Some of the web pairs (16A,16B) of the hexagonal section are inclined to the direction of thrust. In another example the beam assembly includes two rails (20,21) the lower rail positioned forwards of the upper rail and mounted on dual collapsible connections (24,25) while the upper rail (20) is carried by relatively stiff connections (23).

Abstract: A guardrail for roadway has a row of a plurality of steel posts secured in a row to the ground outside and along one side edge of a roadway, such as a shoulder of the roadway or a median strip between roadways. In the case where the posts are disposed along the shoulder of a roadway, each post has an inverted "L" shape providing an arm extending from the top of the post towards an adjacent lane of the roadway. A network of cables is provided to extend between the outer ends of the arms of respective posts and the ground in the shoulder of the roadway. The network is formed by supporting cables each extending between the outer end of one arm and an anchor secured to the ground in the shoulder and lateral or horizontal cables secured to the supporting cables. Each supporting cable is inclined at an angle downwardly and forwardly of the movement of vehicles on the roadway. In the case where the posts are disposed on the median strip, each strip has either "T" or "Y" shape.

Abstract: A door catch including a housing mounted on a door, a lever arm pivotably mounted to the housing, a shank portion pivotably mounted to a midportion of the lever arm, the shank portion extending beyond the edge of the housing and adapted to fit within a keeper mounted adjacent a door. The lever arm and shank are movable between a closed and open position. The lever arm is spring biased to the open position. A rod extends through the shank portion and fits through slots in two flange portions of the housing. A latch is pivotably mounted on the rod and extends through aligned slots in both the shank portion and lever arm. The latch is spring biased to engage the lever arm adjacent the slot therethrough. The latch is movable to a releasing position whereby the lever arm and shank move to an open position and the shank disengages from the keeper.

Abstract: A shock-absorbing unit comprising a post with upper and lower generally coparallel passages therethrough, e.g., bores, for the reception of individual push rods, the inboard ends of the push rods supporting a rail, an oriented elastomer, e.g., a copolyetherester, connecting the outboard end of the push rods and the post, and means for pretensioning the elastomer, e.g., a wedge, a predetermined amount.