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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2012
John R. Rohde, Steamboat Springs, CO (US);
John Reid, Lincoln, NE (US);
Dean Sicking, Lincoln, NE (US);
King K. Mak, San Antonio, TX (US);
John R. Rohde, Steamboat Springs, CO (US);
John Reid, Lincoln, NE (US);
Dean Sicking, Lincoln, NE (US);
King K. Mak, San Antonio, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
A highway guardrail terminal having horizontally extending guardrail elements mounted on a plurality of vertical posts. An anchor cable release mechanism having a cable release bracket attached to a W-beam rail element by cable release bolts has an arrangement of tapered slots and elongated openings to quickly release the cable release bracket from the W-beam rail element upon end-on vehicular impact to the terminal. The tapered slots have a geometry which lifts the bracket away from and out of a parallel alignment with the W-beam rail element.