Protective crash barrier for locomotives and highway construction vehicles

a technology for highway construction and locomotives, applied in the direction of bumpers, pedestrian/occupant safety arrangements, vehicular safety arrangements, etc., can solve the problems of locomotives that can sustain substantial damage, can cause substantial injury to workers or vehicles, and can cause cataclysmic damage to objects it strikes, so as to achieve the effect of lessening damag
US20050072331A1Inactive Publication Date: 2005-04-07MOSES LINNIE L
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
MOSES LINNIE L
Publication Date
2005-04-07
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A crash boot attaches to the front of the locomotive. When inflated, the boot provides a shock absorber for absorbing the impact energy produced when the locomotive collides with another object. By absorbing this energy, the boot protects both the locomotive and its crew, and the other object such as a vehicle and its occupants from severe injury or harm. In a highway environment, a trailer is towed behind a vehicle to a work site. The trailer is parked with one end facing on-coming traffic. This end of the trailer has an inflatable boot which is inflated while the crew is at work. If an on-coming vehicle now collides with the boot, it absorbs the impact of the collision and lessens the damage resulting therefrom.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application is based upon Provisional Patent Application 60 / 508,190 filed Oct. 2, 2003.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

[0002] N / A BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] This invention relates to railroad and highway safety, and more particularly to a protective device attachable to railway locomotives and highway vehicles to cushion an impact between these vehicles and other objects so to lessen any damage occurring between the vehicles and the objects.

[0004] Railroad locomotives, even when traveling a slow speeds, can cause catastrophic damage to an object it strikes, rather another railcar, or something (another vehicle, a person, or other object) in the right-of-way over which it is traveling. At the same time, the locomotive can sustain substantial damage as well.

[0005] In highway environments, particular where road crews are performing work on a roadway, there is also the potential for substantial...

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