Anti-break-through barrier

• US 7,568,857 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2005
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cos.Me. Costruzioni Metalliche S.R.L.
• Original Assignee: Cos.Me. Costruzioni Metalliche S.R.L.
• Inventors: Riotto, Luciano
• Primary Examiner(s): HARTMANN, GARY S
• Application Number:
  US11/662,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20070264078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,427 Days
• Field of Search: 404/6, 256/13.1, 49/49, 491/31, 491/33, 491/03, 49/33, 49/34
• US Class Current: 404/6
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 13/048 with obstructing members moving in a translatory motion, e.g. vertical lift barriers, sliding gates E01F13/046, E01F13/105 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 11/02 Gates; Doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/921 with several parts mounted telescopically inside each other

Abstract

Anti-break-through safety barrier able to be used in correspondence with a site to be protected. The anti-break-through safety barrier comprises a plurality of modular elements coupled together so as to slide vertically with respect to the other. Each modular element comprises a stiff and armor-plated protecting wall, which is fixed laterally to a pair of supports. Each modular element is further movable between an inactive position, located below a determined trampling reference plane and a lifted position above the trampling reference plane to define a single compact protecting structure, stiff and armor-plated, anchored to the floor or to the ground.

Claims

1. An anti-break-through safety barrier able to be used in correspondence with a site to be protected, comprising a plurality of modular elements coupled together so as to slide vertically one with respect to the other, wherein each of said modular elements comprises a stiff and armor-plated protecting wall, which is fixed laterally at both its ends to a pair of opposed supports, and wherein each of said modular elements is movable between an inactive position, located below a determined trampling reference plane (P) defined by a road surface, and a lifted position above said trampling reference plane (P) to define a single compact protecting structure, stiff and armor-plated, anchored to the floor or to the ground,

wherein said modular elements define a telescopic structure able to slide vertically one inside the other, and wherein each pair of said supports include portions which also telescope and are able to slide vertically one inside another, and wherein in the inactive position all the modular elements and the supports are lowered below said reference plane (P) and are contained inside a compartment made under the road surface.

2. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, wherein the supports have transverse sizes decreasing from the bottom to the top of the barrier, and the walls have width increasing from the bottom to the top of the barrier.

3. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, wherein a metal cover is attached to the top supports which, in the inactive position of the barrier, slightly protrudes with respect to the level of the road surface thus allowing people and vehicles to pass over it.

4. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, wherein said telescopic structure is moved by means of fluid-dynamic means.

5. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 4, wherein said fluid-dynamic means comprises at least a jack connected to the top supports of the barrier and selectively liftable for moving the barrier from its inactive lowered position located under the road surface to its active lifted position above the road surface.

6. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, having a width comprised at least between about 2000 mm and about 6000 mm, and a depth comprised at least between about 500 mm and about 1000 mm.

7. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, wherein said protecting walls have a height varying at least between about 200 mm and about 1000 mm and a width varying at least between about 1000 mm and about 6000 mm.

8. An anti-break-through safety barrier as in claim 1, wherein the supports of each of said pair of supports have a width varying at least between about 100 mm and about 500 mm.