Abstract

A traffic control marker having a base with a bottom surface suitable for attachment to a road surface using mechanical fasteners and/or adhesive. A top surface of the base includes rounded edges, and a bottom surface with an inset groove pattern. A flexible outer tube is engaged over an inner tube, where both tubes have a circular cross-sectional configuration. The telescoping tubes are captured within a clamping assembly that is securely and mechanically engaged within a support cavity formed in the base. The base with the support cavity enables enhanced attachment to the road surface, as well as improved drainage through the traffic control marker. The interconnection of the base, tubes and clamping assembly enables the tubes to breakaway from the base after numerous vehicle impacts, and to resist removal of the base from the road surface.

IPC Classes  ?

• E01F 9/623 - Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollardsSupports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection
• E01F 9/588 - Lane delineators for physically separating traffic lanes and discouraging but not preventing crossing
• E01F 9/654 - Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollardsSupports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection in the form of three-dimensional bodies, e.g. conesUpright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollardsSupports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection capable of assuming three-dimensional form, e.g. by inflation or erection to form a geometric body

Goods & Services

safety markers, namely, flexible plastic posts used for marking the location of fire hydrants and the highway traffic lanes signs and sign posts, namely, flexible plastic posts used for marking boundaries and supporting signs, and used as signs