Patent ID: 7516945

Claim:
A guardrail system, comprising: a box beam; an end terminal coupled to the box beam; a support post for supporting the end terminal; a cable anchor bracket coupled to the box beam; a cable extending between the support post and the cable anchor bracket; the cable anchor bracket comprising: a flange plate having first and second opposing sides; a plurality of protrusions coupled to and protruding in a longitudinally extending line from the first side of the flange plate, the plurality of protrusions releasably engaging a plurality of apertures formed in the box beam; and a web plate coupled to and protruding from the second side of the flange plate in alignment with the longitudinally extending line and having an aperture formed therein; and wherein the cable is coupled to the support post at a first end and coupled to the aperture of the web plate at a second end, the cable terminating at the aperture such that an extension of a longitudinal axis of the cable from the second end forms an acute angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the box beam and the flange plate and approximately intersects a centroid of the protrusions along the longitudinally extending line.