Assembly for preventing the vehicle passage

• US 7,604,430 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Issued: 10/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Boris Pervan
• Original Assignee: Boris Pervan
• Inventors: Pervan, Boris
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartmann; Gary S
• Application Number:
  US11/568,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20070227071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,644 Days
• Field of Search: 49/33, 49/49, 491/31, 493/32, 493/47, 404/6, 14/53
• US Class Current: 404/6
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 13/126 Pitfall barriers, causing the vehicle to face a step-like obstruction
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/08 Barbed-wire obstacles; Barricades; Stanchions; Tank traps; Vehicle-impeding devices; Caltrops making barbed wire B21F25/00; barbed-wire fencing E04H17/04; road barricades, obstructing passage of vehicles or pedestrians E01F13/00

Abstract

The assembly of the mobile swing-gate is installed in the channel that is dug across the entire width of the road, and the sides of the excavation are reinforced by wall (5). The created recess is over-bridged by swing-gate (1). One side of swing-gate (1) is connected onto joint (2) that is fixed onto channel wall (5). The opposite side of swing-gate (1) is supported by support grate (3) that by its upper side leans against swing-gate (1) and by its lower side against the corner of wall (5). Steel rope (4) is attached at the upper side of the support grate. By pulling steel rope (4) the support grate (3) eludes bellow swing-gate (1) that remains without support at that side, rotates about joint (2) and falls into the channel, and in such a way a recess is opened in the road.

Claims

1. Assembly for preventing vehicle passage across an access road having an elongate open top excavated trench formed transversely thereacross, the assembly comprising:

an elongate swing-gate sized to fit within at least a portion of the open top trench, the swing-gate having a first side, a second side as well as a upper side and a lower side;

a fixed support to be located at a first edge of the open top trench;

a movable support supporting the second side, the movable support having an upper end and a lower end;

where the first side of the swing-gate is mounted to the fixed support and the movable support supports the lower side of the swing-gate adjacent to the second side, and the lower end of the movable support stands on the bottom of the excavation; and

a flexible tensile member connected to the movable support, where the flexible tensile member is activated by an activating assembly, the activating assembly including a movable plate defining a slot therethrough and having a bottom surface and a carrier having a top surface, where at least one groove is formed on the top surface and the carrier defines an opening therein, and where the bottom surface of the moveable plate is slideably connected to the top surface of the carrier, the activating assembly further comprising at least one roller which cooperates with the slot of the movable plate and the groove of the carrier so that when the activating assembly activates the tensile member, the movable support no longer supports the second side of the swing-gate, allowing the swing-gate to fall into the excavation, preventing vehicle passage from both directions.

2. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the carrier is tubular and the tensile member is placed into the carrier.

3. The assembly of claim 1, further comprises two small rollers which are placed in the groove on the top surface of the carrier.

4. The assembly of claim 3 wherein the groove depth is equal to the radius of the small rollers and the groove length is equal to the diameter of small rollers.

5. The assembly of claim 1 further wherein the roller serves to enable the locking and unlocking of the activation assembly, the roller having an upper and lower side and on its periphery having a semi-circular groove where the diameter of the semi-circular groove is shallower than the radius of the small rollers, and on the roller upper side the tensile member is attached, and on the lower side of roller the weight is attached.

6. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the slot on the moveable plate has a narrow upper part and a wider lower part.

7. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a coupler for stopping the motion of moveable plate so that the moveable plate would not be entirely drawn out, where the coupler is attached to the moveable plate by at least one screw.

8. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a limiter for stopping the motion of moveable plate so that the coupler would not reach the groove and stop the motion of the roller, where the limiter is attached near the opening on the assembly carrier.

9. The assembly of claim 1, further comprising a weight to pull the tensile member after the roller has been liberated and in turn to move the moveable support where the weight is attached to the lower side of the roller.