Patent ID: 8776945

Claim:
A noise barrier to provide noise insulation from roadway noise, construction sites, manufacturing sites, railways or the like wherein the noise barrier includes a plurality of vertical sections, each section comprising: a base portion having a generally inverted T configuration with bottom flanges and configured to be mounted substantially in the ground; at least one mounting post attached to the base portion; and a barrier member manufactured from recycled rubber materials and a binder, the barrier member being mounted to the mounting post and having an interlocking configuration on side ends of each vertical section to interlock with adjacent vertical sections, the interlocking configuration permits the angle between adjacent vertical sections to be set at a desired position, and the interlocking configuration includes a concave profile along one vertical side end of the barrier member and a convex profile along an opposite vertical side end and wherein a part of the side ends of the base portion has the same configuration as the barrier member.