Vehicle containment barrier

Abstract

This invention, refers to a vehicle containment barrier for installation on expressways, motorways, and public ways to prevent accidents, and which has been designed to improve the characteristics of existing barriers, given the low elasticity module of the materials used in its construction, providing better shock-absorption in the event of collisions against the barrier and redirection of the vehicles.

We claim:  
     
         1 . VEHICLE CONTAINMENT BARRIER: this has been designed for instillation on motorways or public roads and is equivalent to the type formed by a linked horizontal section, secured to equidistant struts anchored to the ground, and characteristic because it is made from composite materials reinforced with steel or a similar product, presenting a low elasticity module, comprising fiberglass and isophtalic polyester resin ( 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 ) in appropriate portions and positions, with the unique feature that this incorporation may only be achieved by means of pultrusion.  
     
     
         2 . VEHICLE CONTAINMENT BARRIER: according to patent  claim 1 , this product characteristic because the horizontal section ( 1 ) consists in a “C” cross-section, the ends ( 2 ) of which are bent inwards and extended; these incorporate a metallic core ( 4 ) and the arch, or at least the arch vertex, is reinforced with half-round steel or similar material ( 5 ).  
     
     
         3 . VEHICLE CONTAINMENT BARRIER: according to patent  claim 1 , this product is characteristic because the support struts ( 3 ) are also manufactured from composite material of the same or similar composition to that of the horizontal barrier section ( 1 ) and are also reinforced with steel ( 6 , 8 ) or similar materials and manufactured by the means of pultrusion.  
     
     
         4 . VEHICLE CONTAINMENT BARRIER: according to patent  claim 2 , this product is characteristic because the horizontal section has a cross section comprising two or more linked semicircular corrugated sections.