Patent ID: 7604221

Claim:
A guardrail run arranged along a roadway, the guardrail run comprising: a rail which extends substantially parallel to the roadway and is made of consecutively arranged round timber sections having confronting ends, each of the round timber sections having a bottom side and a vertical groove disposed on the bottom side; a metal band disposed in each vertical groove; a post anchored alongside the roadway for releasable attachment of the round timber sections; a locking plate having a U-shape configuration with two legs connected by a web, with the locking plate overlapping with confronting ends of the metal bands of two adjacent of the consecutively arranged timber sections and receiving the confronting ends of the metal bands between the two legs for coupling the metal bands with one another; a spacer interposed between the confronting ends of the round timber sections and the post; studs extending through aligned bores disposed in the locking plate, the metal bands, the round timber sections and the spacer, and connecting the locking plate, the metal bands, the round timber sections and the spacer with one another; and wherein outer bores of the locking plate include transverse slots open to an edge of the locking plate, allowing the locking plate to be placed transversely over the studs.