Patent ID: 7182040
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: E01F,G07C,G09F

Abstract:
1. A personnel guidance and location control system for guiding a group of walking pedestrian individuals into a line thereof in a relatively narrow pedestrian pathway and controlling movement thereof while advancing toward an activity at or beyond an end of a line position, said guidance and location control system comprising: a) a ground cover substrate for disposition on a ground surface and having an upper surface thereon; b) at least one end of the line element associated with said upper surface of said cover substrate and in a fixed location thereon as an end of the line for a queue of the individuals; c) a pair of path forming guidance members associated with said upper surface of said cover substrate and on opposite sides of said substrate and in a fixed location thereon relative to the end of line element and extending from regions in proximity to opposite ends of the end of line element initially generally perpendicular to the end of the line element to form parallel pathway boundaries in a desired orientation which define a pathway of movement for the group of individuals; d) wait state indicia associated with the end of the line element defining the end of the line element as a location for a queue of said pedestrian individuals; e) at least one movement indicator element on said pathway of movement to indicate a movement direction in that pathway and which leads to the end of the line position, said upper surface of said substrate being relatively free of elements which would obstruct the prominence of the end of the line element, the wait state indicia, and the lines of path forming guidance members and the at least one movement indicator element so that the pathway is not visually obstructed; f) said substrate having a width and wherein said width of the substrate or the width of said parallel pathway boundaries or a combination thereof are arranged to cause movement of said group of pedestrian individuals into a line of individuals; g) means associated with said end of line element and path forming members for locating same with the cover substrate; and h) whereby the ground substrate having said at least one end of line element, said pair of discrete path forming guidance members, said width and said at least one movement indicator element form a means for queuing said group of pedestrian individuals into said line of individuals for movement to said at least said end of the line element having said wait state indicia; (i) said guidance and location control system being rollable for storage, light in weight to be immediately installable and sufficiently narrow to be used in confined locations.