Patent ID: 8794172
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: B29C,E01F

Abstract:
1. A traffic delineator comprising: a barrel comprised of a single thickness material and having a top wall, a side wall that vertically depends from said top wall and exhibits a tubular shape, and an integral rim flange that radiates concentrically outward from a bottom end of said side wall, wherein said rim flange includes a plurality of corners, wherein said rim flange includes i) an upper wall piece that flares outward from the bottom end of said side wall, ii) a bottom wall piece that underlies said upper wall piece and radiates inward beneath said upper wall piece and iii) a vertical wall piece having a plurality of generally straight portions arranged to concentrically circumscribe said side wall and interconnect said upper and bottom wall pieces and wherein said plurality of corners are defined at intersecting regions of said straight portions, wherein each of said upper and bottom wall pieces at each corner include a plurality of opposed corrugated raised ridges and intermediate valleys, wherein the vertical wall piece at a plurality said corners extends arcuately inward between the intersecting straight portions of the vertical wall piece to define an indented recess, and wherein an open hollow cavity space is exposed through said bottom wall piece of said rim flange and circumscribed by said top and side walls and said rim flange.