Patent ID: 8302937

Claim:
A pedestrian barricade assembly comprising a plurality of uprights and associated guide rails, each guide rail having end portions that are hingedly connectable to the uprights, each upright including a front section having at least one channel extending transversely to a longitudinal axis of the front section, the channel of each upright having a forwardly facing back wall and upper and lower side walls, and upper and lower flanges extending partway around the respective upper and lower side walls, each of the guide rails having upper and lower open notches in axial spaced relation from the end portions of the guide rails, the upper and lower notches being transversely slidably engageable with the respective upper and lower flanges on the upper and lower side walls to provide hinge connections therebetween; and wherein each of the upper and lower flanges comprises a laterally spaced pair of semi-circular flanges on each of the upper and lower side walls, and the upper and lower notches of one or two of the guide rails are transversely slidably engageable with one or both of the semi-circular flanges of each pair on each of the upper and lower side walls to provide one or two hinge connections therebetween.