Enhanced retractable safety marker

Abstract

An enhanced retractable safety marker is a device designed to provide motorists with advance warning of disabled vehicles and/or work zone areas. The device has been designed to withstand reasonable winds through the use of two base supports, several retractable horizontal stabilizers that fit through slots on the base supports and a series of retractable vertical risers. The retractable vertical risers allow for the device to easily expand to height consistent with traffic engineering design standards when in operation and then compact when it is in storage. The two base supports in combination with the retractable horizontal stabilizers are designed not only to provide the necessary structural stability but to also open and close about the retractable vertical risers thus providing for additional compactness. The shape of the vertical risers may either be rectangular, elliptical, square of circular depending on application and may have reflective decals affixed to them to correspond with standard traffic control design.

1 . An enhanced retractable safety marker comprising of: 
 Two separate base supports that are rectangular shaped with a top and at least one short side is open, at least one long side of the base support having a tab on the side adjacent to the “open” side of the base support, and a lower rectangular shaped riser that has holes to receive the tabs on the base supports, with a series of rectangular shaped middle and upper risers, where the upper riser is designed to fit within the middle risers and the middle risers are designed to fit within the lower riser.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the base supports have slots into which horizontal stabilizers are inserted, the horizontal stabilizers are fully expanded when needed for additional load support.  
   
   
       3 - 4 . (canceled)