Pedestrian protective barrier
View Patent ↗A pedestrian protective barrier includes a base barrier and a removable lid that engages with and covers the base barrier. The protective barrier may be made from a resin, plastic, or other suitable material that satisfies the properties and features herein. By using plastic or resin, for example, the protective barrier is sufficiently light to enable easy storage and transportation. The base barrier includes an interior cavity to receive and accommodate a weighted material, such as water, dirt, sand, weights, etc., once the protective barriers are arranged in a desired place, such as in the street protecting a restaurant's dining area, each base barrier's cavity may be filled with a desired weighted material.
1 . A pedestrian protective barrier, comprising:
a base barrier having a pair of opposing front and rear exterior sidewalls and a pair of opposing left and right exterior sidewalls therebetween defining an interior cavity, in which the base barrier's top side is entirely open and leads to the interior cavity, wherein an entirety of the rear exterior sidewall of the base barrier corresponds in size and to an entirety of the base barrier's front exterior sidewall, and the front and rear exterior sidewalls of the base barrier are correspondingly angled such that the front exterior sidewall matingly engages with the rear exterior sidewall of another said base barrier; and
a lid that is separate from the base barrier and rests on a top side rim of the base barrier, the lid including a pair of opposing front and rear exterior sidewalls and a pair of opposing left and right exterior sidewalls therebetween, wherein the lid includes a depressed cavity on its top surface, and at least a portion of the lid's depressed cavity enters the base barrier's interior cavity, in which the lid's depressed cavity's vertical area forms a different size than the base barrier's interior cavity's vertical area,
wherein an entirety of the lid's front exterior sidewall corresponds in size and shape to the lid's rear exterior sidewall, and the front and rear exterior sidewalls of the lid are correspondingly angled such that front exterior sidewall matingly engages with the rear exterior sidewall of another said lid; and
wherein, when the lid is rested on the top side rim of the base barrier, the lid's exterior front sidewall and the base barrier's exterior front sidewall correspondingly mate with exterior rear sidewalls of the lid and base barrier of another said pedestrian protective barrier, respectively.
2 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 1 , wherein an overall shape of the lid corresponds to a shape of the base barrier.
3 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 1 , wherein the base barrier's front sidewall tapers to form an outward point, and the rear sidewall tapers to form an inward point that accommodates the front sidewall's outward point.
4 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 3 , further comprising a second said pedestrian protective barrier, wherein the front sidewall point of the second pedestrian protective barrier engages with the inward point on the rear sidewall of the pedestrian protective barrier.
5 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 4 , further comprising a corner module that has at least one sidewall that matches a shape of the pedestrian protective barrier's front sidewall, and the corner module further having at least one sidewall that matches a shape of the pedestrian protective barrier's rear sidewall.
6 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 1 , wherein a base surface of the lid's depressed cavity includes a hole.
7 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the base barrier's left and right sidewalls is shaped to correspond to an adjacently positioned left or right sidewall on a separate second said base barrier.
8 . The pedestrian protective barrier of claim 1 , wherein, when the lid is rested on the top side rim of the base barrier, a base of the lid's depressed cavity is positioned within the base barrier's interior cavity, while a top of the lid is positioned above a top surface of the base barrier.