MOVABLE BARRIER FOR USE AT THE ENTRANCE TO A PARKING SITE OR THE LIKE

• US 3,750,331 A
• Filed: 12/29/1971
• Issued: 08/07/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Georges Renaux
• Original Assignee: Georges Renaux
• Inventors: Renaux, Georges
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Dennis L.
• Application Number:
  US05/213,634
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 49/49,35,131,132,133,134
• US Class Current: 49/35
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 13/085 specially adapted for individual parking spaces

Abstract

A device forming a movable barrier, for use in particular at the entrance of a parking place, wherein the improvement consists in that said barrier is hinged substantially at ground level in such a way that it can be lowered into an open horizontal position to allow free passage to vehicles over said barrier and can be lifted into and locked in a substantially vertical position to close the access to the parking place.

Claims

1. A movable barrier adapted for positioning in blocking or accessible relation to a predetermined area, said barrier comprising at least one elongated upright, a socket secured to the ground and formed with means for pivotally mounting one end of said upright for movement of said upright between a first substantially horizontal and a second substantially vertical position, a cross-bar fixed to an end of said elongated upright opposite said one end and extending laterally therefrom, an adjustable length stay operatively mounted at one of its ends, to said cross bar for pivotal movement relative thereto in laterally spaced relation to said opposite end of said upright, the opposite end of said stay being laterally spaced from and in offset relation to said one end of said upright and being mounted by means separate from said socket for pivotal movement relative to the ground, said stay, in said first position of said upright, lying in a substantially horizontal plane together with said upright and said cross-bar and, in said second position of said upright, being obliquely related to said upright and to said cross-bar.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said adjustable length stay comprises telescopically related parts, and means for locking said telescopically related parts together when said upright is in said second position thereof.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein said means for locking said parts together comprise a safety lock having a removable barrel acting as an extractable locking pin.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein a second upright is provided which is also pivotally mounted at one of its ends and forming with said first-named upright and said cross-bar an archlike structure, said one end of said stay being mounted for pivotal movement relative to said cross-bar by a sleeve carried by the cross-bar for rotary movement relative thereto.