Patent ID: 7600554

Claim:
A portable accident barrier device comprising: a pair of telescopic pole assemblies of substantially equal length, each of said assemblies comprising: a base including a vertically-oriented cylindrical post having four cylindrical S-shaped ground engaging feet affixed equidistantly apart to said post in an downwardly and outwardly relationship thereto and having a locking means therein; a cylindrical body with a diameter greater than that of the post and coupled thereto in a concentric relationship therewith, said body in longitudinally slidable communication with said post and adapted to removably engage said locking means adapted to lock said body into a user-selected height, said body further comprising an assembly engagement means adapted to attach at least two portable barrier devices together; and a lightweight, substantially opaque mesh tarpaulin slidably engaged between said pole assemblies, said tarpaulin having a front side, a rear side, a left edge, a right edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, said tarpaulin comprising: a plurality of loops vertically spaced along said left edge and said right edge adapted to slidably engage said body for maintaining said tarpaulin in upright orientation; a plurality of elongated narrow slits in said tarpaulin to permit passage of wind therethrough; a hook and loop fastener running continuously across said bottom edge on said tarpaulin rear side; and a plurality of strips of highly light reflective fabric affixed to said front side; said assembly engagement means is a slot on the exterior of said body having an outwardly pivotable peg adapted to lock into a slot of an adjacent portable accident barrier device with another body having the same structure as said body, and wherein said peg is adapted to be flipped up and to become a female expansion slot for attaching to another peg with the same structure as said peg on the adjacent body.