Special portable bollard device known as the Bold Bollard

Abstract

A device related as a security bollard to be used as a protective measure and to be mounted to a base. The portable device known as the Bold Bollard may be filled with various materials and have several specific features. available to tailor the bollard to specific needs and uses. Taught are the ways a portable and reusable bollard may be provided for easy use in the field. The preferred embodiment is comprised of a base with features; a means to fill the base with a ballast; an essentially vertical post; a means to removably secure the post to base; an alternative cap with features and a means to removably connect cap to post wherein an essentially vertical barrier comprised of durable materials is presented with a stable base and barrier is portable for deployment and use.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A Special portable bollard device  30  known as the Bold Bollard is made in a specific configuration and of durable material and comprised of:
 (a) a base  36  with features; 
 (b) a means  80  to fill the base  36  with a ballast  39 ; 
 (c) an essentially vertical post  34 ; 
 (d) a means  61  to removably secure the post  34  to base  36 ; 
 (e) an alternative cap  35  with specific enabled features; and 
 (f) a means  51  to removably connect cap  35  to post  34  wherein an essentially vertical bollard  30  is presented with a stable base and barrier has portable features for deployment and is available for various uses. 
 
     
     
         2 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the enabled features are from a group consisting of a plain smooth top  52 ; a flashing light, a strobe light, a multicolored light, an open aperture  54  for a chain, rope, or rail, a black box container  55  for electronics, a key box, information, surveillance, or a camera, and a fluorescent light option  56 . 
     
     
         3 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the specific configuration is from a group consisting of structural designs as circular, oval, and square tube cross sections, a base that is generally round, oval or rectangular, and side walls that are essentially straight or tapered. 
     
     
         4 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the means for connecting the cap to post is from a group consisting of threaded configurations, integral molding, casting, forming and blow molding. 
     
     
         5 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the durable material is from a group consisting of steel, aluminum, a heavy duty, durable plastic, a composite material, poly propylene, PVC, CpVc, nylon, urethane polyurethane, CA Celluloze Acetate, CPE Chlorinated Polyethylene, PP Polypropylene, PA-6 Polyamide, PA-66 Polyamide 66, HIPS High Impact Polystyrene, ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, MBS Methylmethacrylate-butadiene-styrene, PC Polycarbonate, PVC Polyvinyl Chloride, PVB Polyvinyl Butyral, PF Phenol-Formaldehyde′ UF Urea-Formaldehyde, PET Polyethylene Terephthalate, and PBT Polybutylene Terephthalate. 
     
     
         6 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the manner to make is from a group consisting of plastic thermo-injection, plastic blow molding, plastic vacuum molding, and spin casting. 
     
     
         7 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the means for ballast is a liquid. 
     
     
         8 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the means for ballast is a concrete/sackcrete material. 
     
     
         9 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein the means for ballast is a sand. 
     
     
         10 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein a use for the device is from the group consisting of building protection, pedestrian/crowd control, road and curb location, shopping cart return area location, vehicle parking curbs, mail Box holder, key pad holder for gate and door security systems, information signs and sign bases, informational sign base and protector, and marine applications for docks 
     
     
         11 . The device according to  claim 1  wherein a market use and distribution channels is from a group consisting of self-storage, parking lots, municipal streets, highways, schools, distribution/and truck centers, airports, malls and marine applications.