Vehicle Barrier

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-10-08
FIBERWEB INC
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[0010]The present invention provides a vehicle barrier capable of being easily transported and erected, capable of absorbing the impact from a

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Chief among these drawbacks is the substantial bulk and weight of the barrier—which limits transportability.
Undesirably, Horton et al. has no provisions for blast protection/dissipation.
As with Beryozkin et al., the weight, form factor, and complexity of Nasatka limits its ability to be easily transported and configured for operation.
However, even these common vehicle barriers

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[0030]The present invention relates generally to vehicle barriers and more particularly to portable vehicle barriers. Referring now to the drawings (where, for ease of understanding, not all reference numerals are shown in all drawings), the present invention provides a barrier body 10 having an impact side 12 (i.e., the side of barrier body 10 facing the direction from which an impact is likely to occur), a reflection side 14, and a plurality of interior walls 16, as shown in FIG. 1A. The plurality of interior walls 16 extend between and join the impact side 12 and the reflection side 14. The plurality of interior walls 16, the impact side 12, and the reflection side 14 are arranged to form a plurality of hollow protection chambers 18 or plurality of vessels 18, which, in application, are filled with a fill material 100.

[0031]The vertical sides of the plurality of hollow protection chambers 18 are defined by either the plurality of interior walls 16 or some combination of the plura...

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Abstract

A vehicle barrier having an impact side, a reflection side opposite the impact side, and a plurality of interior walls extending between the impact side and the reflection side. The refection side, the impact side, and the plurality of interior walls are formed from vertically-oriented sheets of barrier material (when in the deployed configuration). Further, the refection side, the impact side, and the plurality of interior walls define multiple chambers. The chambers can be packed with fill material to stop an oncoming vehicle.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part application which claims benefit of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 / 053,966 filed Mar. 24, 2008, entitled “BALLISTICS BARRIER” which is hereby incorporated by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to vehicle barriers. More specifically, the present invention pertains to barriers that can effectively arrest the movement of an oncoming vehicle and dissipate blast / impact waves created from the impact of the vehicle and / or the detonation of explosives carried by the vehicle. Further, the present invention relates to vehicle barriers that are readily transportable and can be expeditiously erected.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]The applications for vehicle barriers range from routing the flow of traffic to preventing vehicles from entering a restricted roadway to providing a barricade limiting vehicle proximity to a building or other sensitive locale. In addition...

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IPC IPC(8): E01F15/00
CPCE01F15/145E01F13/12
Inventor CASHIN, ARTHUR HENRYHAWKINS, SHELDRICK FARISHAWKINS, WILLIAM MCADAMHICKLE, BRIAN ANDREWVERBLE, MARC DOUGLASHOLLOWELL, JR., FRANK LEE
Owner FIBERWEB INC
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