Abstract: An ornamental railing is provided which includes a plurality of glass or plastic panels suspended from a handrail. The panels provide vertical support for the handrail, acting as gussets between the handrail and its support means. The panels do not touch the staircase or floor below, and thus do not interfere with construction or maintenance of risers, treads, or landings.

Abstract: A railing assembly is disclosed, in which panels, preferably of glass construction are carried in the channel of a mounting structure, and which in turn support a handrail, with a preferred mounting residing in a sloped disposition of the channel-like mounting structure along or on a stairway, and wherein the panels are secured in the channel of the mounting structure by means of an adhesive, and with a flexible sheet material being provided for disposition within the channel, between its inside walls and the adjacent walls of the panel disposed therein, with portions of the sheet material being spaced apart from each other between opposite sides of the panel disposed in the channel and adjacent sidewalls of the channel and defining adhesive-receiving pockets therein, whereby adhesive applied in the pockets between the panel and the channel walls will be retained therein without running out, for facilitating setting of the adhesive even when the panels are slope-mounted as, for example, along a stairway.

Abstract: A security screen is provided, adapted to be applied inside windows, doors or the like, to be kept hidden from view when not in use, and which is of the type that has vertical bars that are connected by angular links, and with the screens generally being provided in pairs, for latching and locking at about the center of a window or door with respect to which security is desired. Particularly unique adjustability and versatility features are embodied in the screen, and security fasteners are used to fasten components together.