Patent ID: 6863468
Filing Date: 2005-03-08
Classification: E01F

Abstract:
1. A protection barrier comprising: an elongated barrier defining a chamber therein, said barrier having a base, a top surface, first and second side walls, and first and second ends, each of said first and second side walls including: a coupling disposed on each opposed end of said barrier, each coupling being like-configured for each opposed end thereby said coupling is releasably connectable in juxtaposed end-to-end arrangement to either opposed end of like-configured barriers; said coupling including a tongue extended from each opposed end of said barrier, said tongue extending vertically between said base and said top surface of said barrier, said tongue extended from an off-center portion of each end; a groove indentation in each opposed end, said groove extending vertically between said base and said top surface of said barrier, said groove and said tongue having one contiguous surface; and each opposed end of said barrier having beveled corners providing for pivotable movement of said tongue of a first barrier end relative to a second groove of a like-configured second barrier end when said tongue of either end of said first barrier is removably inserted into said second groove of either end of the like-configured second barrier thereby forming an end-to-end aligned and nesting relationship of a plurality of like-configured barriers.