Abstract: A portable wall component is disclosed. The wall component comprises a pair of vertical posts. Each post has an upper component and a lower component with a hollow aperture extending therethrough. Each post also has a downwardly extending smaller cylindrical section at the bottom of the upper component and a complimentary cylindrical recess at the top of the lower post for receiving the smaller cylindrical section. An elastic band is located within each aperture extending along the length thereon and slightly beyond. A ring at the upper end of each upper component is coupled to the upper end of its associated band. A base component at the lower end of each lower component is coupled to the lower end of its associated band. A flexible sheet is provided with parallel upper and lower horizontal edges and parallel vertical end edges therebetween coupled to the posts. The flexible sheet has half-moon wind flaps cut therein and openings at the regions where the upper and lower components join.

Abstract: Wire fencing including a first multiplicity of wires lying in a first plane and extending in generally uniformly mutually spaced relationship and a second multiplicity of wires lying in a second plane adjacent to the first plane and extending in generally uniformly mutually spaced relationship in touching relationship with the first multiplicity of wires at a third multiplicity of intersection locations, the first and second multiplicities of wires being fixedly joined to each other at the third multiplicity of intersection locations, the first multiplicity of wires extending generally along mutually parallel first axes which are not perpendicular to second axes along which the second multiplicity of wires generally extend at a first group of the intersection locations.

Abstract: A safety barrier for railing systems for preventing entrapment, serious injury or death resulting from bodily penetration through the baluster support members of a railing system. The barrier substantially covers the horizontal space between vertical support members and the vertical space equal to the height of the balusters by weaving a mesh scrim or web of poly-vinyl-chloride in primary form plasticized between and along the balusters resulting in taut coverage of the open spacing. A border fabricated of reinforced nylon, canvas or like material is joined to each end of the barrier, having a plurality of openings to allow a means for tightly securing the barrier to an end wall, post or any combination thereof. The barrier is adaptable to lesser dimensions in terms of length and height.

Abstract: A partition pole system for guiding visitors in public spaces, buildings, or the like has a plurality of spaced partition poles each composed of a base and a hollow pole mounted on the base, and a plurality of partition cords housed in the poles, respectively, for withdrawal therefrom through respective withdrawal holes thereof. A connector is mounted on a distal end of each of the partition cords for connection to the coupling of another pole. Each of the poles houses a vertically movable weight for pulling each of the partition poles into one of the poles, and a releasable stopper for keeping each of the partition cords withdrawn out of one of the poles. The poles may be vertically mounted on the respective bases or inclined with respect to the respective bases.

Abstract: A fence slat locking system includes elongated plastic slats weaved between consecutive links in a chain link fence. Each slat has a wall that is curved at the lateral sides. The bottom end of the slat is notched on opposite lateral sides defining a set of slat ears. A rail is weaved horizontally between the links of the chain link fence and attached with the bottom end of each slat. By inserting the bottom end of the slat vertically downward into a rail slot, the slat ears start to flatten moving the curved tips laterally away from the central longitudinal axis of the slat. Inserting the slat further vertically downward into the rail channel allow the slat ears to snap back into their original curved cross-sectional profile allowing the curved tips of the slat ears to snap back underneath a retaining section in the rail. The "snap back" action automatically locks the fence slat into the rail.

Abstract: A self-tensioning fencing system includes a mounting batten, made of plastic or metal, which is mounted directly to a structural support such as a fence post using standard nails, screws or bolts as required according to the type of a particular fence post. The mounting batten may be a solid or a thick walled hollow section elastic extrusion or a metal form. The mounting batten is secured to the structural support post so as to space the plastic grid material away from the support post to allow the plastic grid material to be tensioned at a spacing from the structural support posts. A channel batten made of pre-coated cold rolled steel mounts over the plastic batten and serves to clamp plastic grid fencing material between the mounting batten, and the channel batten. The channel batten when drawn tight against the mounting batten serves not only to firmly attach the fencing material to the support post but acts as a tensioning device.

Abstract: A driveway guard for installation across a driveway to prevent playthings from going into the street. The driveway guard includes a pair of posts, a net with an apron, guy lines, tent pegs and assemblies for connecting the net to the posts. The net is long enough to span a two-car driveway and has a dividing strip separating the net into two net portions. One of the net portions has a length for spanning a one-car driveway. A pair of belts are attached to the dividing strip. To install the driveway guard across a two-car driveway, the entire length of the net is suspended across the driveway between the posts, which are staked and guyed into the ground on opposite sides of the driveway. The apron engages the driveway to prevent objects from rolling under the net into the street. For a one-car driveway, the net is rolled up from one end to the dividing strip and the belts are run around the roll and buckled. The one-car net portion is then suspended across the driveway.

Abstract: A basketball safety return apparatus utilizes a plurality of moveable pole support bases and a plurality of poles adapted to be mounted vertically in the pole support bases. Netting is connected to the vertically mounted poles and the poles and bases are mounted and arranged so that the netting forms a barrier behind the basketball hoop and along at least one side. The basketball safety return apparatus may be readily assembled, positioned, disassembled and stored. The inexpensive apparatus of the present invention prevents the basketball from rolling into the neighbor's yards and more importantly from rolling down a driveway into a street where it may be retrieved without sufficient attention to avoid a child being hit by a vehicle approaching on a street.

Abstract: A recreation area boundary and safety restraining barrier device and kit therefor is disclosed. The device includes a net having first and second edges, resilient net supports disposed near at least one of the first or second edges of the net for supporting the net, and support posts mounting the net in a substantially vertical orientation such that either the first or second edges thereof is in close proximity to the ground such that objects contacting the net are prevented from passing between the either first or second edges of the net and the ground. A kit is also disclosed containing at least two support posts, a length of netting material, and a length of resilient cord attachable to the netting material and the at least two support posts. The kit may further include at least two support post receiving sleeves.

Abstract: A portable utility pen having components forming both the utility pen and, when packaged, an internal skeleton to the container at the corners and sides when packaged so as to minimize crushing of the container under pressure due to vertical storage or display of a plurality of the containers. For forming the pen, the components comprise plurality of upper rails that have complimentary securing fittings and form a first essentially rectangular configuration defining a first gap when said upper rails are fitted together and a plurality of lower rails having complimentary securing fittings for forming a second essentially rectangular configuration defining a second gap spaced below said first gap when said lower rails are fitted together. The rectangular configurations are joined in a spaced apart arrangement by a plurality of upright members that have complimentary fittings with the rails at the corners thereof forming the rectangular relationships.

Abstract: An underground housing contains a netting that is retractably attached inside the housing. The netting is used to cover rubbish positioned at curbside, to keep dogs and children away from the rubbish. The netting also acts to hide the rubbish until it is picked up.

Abstract: A barrier fence comprising a leno fabric woven from thermoplastic yarns, and a series of stripes of a thermoplastic resin in a warp direction integrally adhered to the leno fabric, having gaps therebetween, wherein the stripes adhered to the leno fabric have a Tensile Strength in the warp direction at least equal to or greater than that of the gaps.

Abstract: The screening or security fence structure of this invention includes a plurality of spaced I-beam vertical support posts with standardized fence panels placed between them. While each fence panel is securely mounted to the I-beam posts, it is also firmly and contiguously connected through the posts to adjacent panels, so that the entire fence structure is linked together. By this configuration, an impact force on one of the fence panels is distributed along the fence. Additionally, the vertical side members of each fence panel frame abut the inside surfaces of the I-beam posts. If a fence panel is struck by a moving vehicle, the vertical frame member will jam against the I-beam flanges thus preventing the fence panel from breaking away and causing a safety hazard.Additionally, the fence fabric mounting hardware is secured within the I-beam channels thus reducing possible vandalism. In an alternative embodiment, a cable may be run the length of the fence inside the horizontal fence panel frame members.

Abstract: An electric fence wire construction is made by plying or weaving coated supporting members, preferably fiberglass coated with polyvinyl chloride, with conducting members, preferably aluminum.

Abstract: An electrical conducting rope for use on electric fencing of livestock with an inner core of stranded conductor cable and an outer insulating layer of braided synthetic fiber filaments. The inner core is formed of seven cable strands, each formed of seven twisted galvanized wires. The outer layer is formed of a braid of multiple polyester filament carriers. The carriers have contrasting colors to provide high visibility of the electric fence. A standard electric fence charger connected to the inner conductor core provides electric shocks to livestock contacting the outer insulating layer. The outer layer may have gaps in the braiding to expose the inner conducting core below the surface of the outer layer.

Abstract: An electric fence wire construction is made by plying or weaving coated supporting members, preferably fiberglass coated with polyvinyl chloride, with conducting members, preferably aluminum.

Abstract: A fence assembly comprises a plurality of panels of expanded metal mesh having a plurality of closed meshes. The panels are arranged in zig-zag relationship, and each panel is joined to another panel by means of portion of some of the meshes of the panel adjacent an edge thereof, projecting through meshes of the other panel. The interlocking meshes are intertwined to retain the panels interlocked. The fence assembly may be secured to, or buried in, a trench in the ground.

Abstract: A device for the trapping of snakes and similar animals having a sheet of netting to be placed on the ground shaped so that a plurality of areas of the netting are substantially non-horizontal to the ground. A snake attempting to traverse the sheet will pass into an interstices until its body size prevents forward motion. The scales of the snake will catch on the strands of the netting preventing the snake from retreating from the netting.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for ensnaring a reptile having overlapping scales or plates over its body including flexible netting across the path of travel of the reptile, the netting having a mesh of sufficient size to allow at least the head portion of the reptile to enter therethrough and being constructed of a fabric which is of sufficient size so as to be wedged between the scales when the reptile attempts to withdraw its head from the netting.

Abstract: A mesh or netting useful for fencing animals comprising a plurality of longitudinal wires mutually connected together in the vertical direction by weft wires, wherein the longitudinal wires as a function of their positions in the vertical direction of the mesh or netting have different strengths. The wires may be arranged in groups wherein the wires strengths vary from group to group. The differences in wire strengths may be obtained by wires having different thicknesses, iron or steel wires of different carbon contents, wires made of different materials or wires having different numbers of elementary wires.

Abstract: Knotted wire fencing, e.g. for enclosing a cultivated or uncultivated region which may be traversed by animals or other creatures of various sizes, comprises longitudinal (horizontal) and transverse (vertical) wires forming a mesh and tied together at the junctions or intersections of the two arrays of wires. The length of the transverse (vertical) wires periodically changes along the fencing relative to the maximum breadth thereof so that some wires extend the full breadth (height) of the fence while others extend from the bottom thereof only partly over the height of the fencing. The shorter transverse wires have a length which differs from that of the full-length transverse (vertical) wires by the height of one mesh.

Abstract: A metallic substrate and an outer thermoplastic resinous coating are bonded to one another by a resinous polyamide hot melt adhesive prepared by condensation of an unpolymerized amide-forming dicarboxylic-containing compound or polymeric fatty acid with a diamine of the formula ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical; X is a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bearing a single hydrogen substituent and n is an integer of from 1 to 6 inclusive. The adhesive is first applied to the metal substrate with sequential deposition of the thermoplastic resinous outer coating.

Abstract: A chicken wire border fence comprising a length of chicken wire of relatively narrow width having welded thereto a series of separate heavier gauge cross pieces of wire having end portions thereof extending outwardly from one edge of the length of chicken wire in a reversed closed loop relationship, the other ends being open-ended and extending out from the opposite edge of the length of chicken wire in points for engaging the ground, the entire fence being capable of being rolled up for shipping and storing.

Abstract: The invention is an improved method for the electrical grounding of insulation coated chain link fabric that is usually used for fences or similar enclosures. The invention provides a continuous wire at the top or bottom, or both, edges of the erected fabric that electrically connects each of the insulation coated wires which make up the fabric. The continuous wire is then grounded at intervals along the length of the fence or enclosure and thus effectively electrically grounds the fabric. Numerous variations in the configuration of the wire are included in the embodiments for accomplishing the grounding.

Abstract: The invention is an improved method for electrical grounding of plastics coated chain link fabric that is usually used for fences or similar enclosures. The invention provides a method for grounding by employing an insulating coating containing conductive particles to form a continuous linkage or electrical path through and between all wires that compose the fabric. The said fabric, after said continuous linkage or electrical path is established, is then grounded at various intervals along the length of the fence or enclosure and thus effectively electrically grounds the fabric.

Abstract: An improved plant support structure formed of relatively rigid, bent steel wire. In one form, the plant support comprises a plurality of wire elements each formed into a plurality of diamond-shaped segments with each element mutually interconnectable to a like element by means of a plurality of rigid, frictional, releasable wire interconnections. In an alternate form, the plant support of the present invention is formed of a longitudinal wire fabric web comprising a single strand of wire formed into a plurality of mutually interconnected transverse strand segments each bent into a zig-zag shape and interconnected to the next adjacent strand segment by means of frictional twisted wire connections. The plant support structure may be open fence-like trellis structures or closed substantially cylindrical structures.

Abstract: Fence fabric formed of a multiplicity of entwining electrically conductive metal wire cores each coated with a heat disintegrable electrical insulation is rendered susceptible to grounding by disposing each of said metal cores in contact with at least one electrically conductive ground element. To produce this product, one or more of the foregoing conductive elements is placed in permanent contact with each coated wire of the fence fabric and sufficient current passed through said conductive element to disintegrate the insulation coating and provide an electrically conductive path between the metal core of each of said wires and said electrical conductor.

Abstract: Pre-shaped wrought-iron rods are placed one beside another in a lattice array, in which node-forming portions of adjacent rods are disclosed close to each other at a plurality of node positions. All node-forming portions at each of said node positions are inserted into a U-shaped strip metal element having an inwardly protruding longitudinal rib. Each of said strip metal elements is joined to said node-forming portions inserted therein by a projection welding operation in which said rib is used as a projection. Each of said strip metal elements is subsequently closed to form a closed clip embracing said node-forming portions joined thereto.

Abstract: The open areas along the lower edge of a wire fence are blocked by two adjacent angle guards on opposite sides of the fence. One of the angle guards includes a bend at the top which overlaps the other shorter angle guard. The bent portion is slotted at intervals along the length of the fence to receive the interleaved wires while the sections between the slots extends through the openings in the wire mesh to overlap the top of the other angle guard. Bolts through holes in the vertical sides of the angles secure the two guards together and anchor pegs through holes in the horizontal base plates hold the guards in the ground. This clears the area along the fence of weeds and undergrowth and acts as a guide for a lawn mower to facilitate trimming grass at the edges of the fence guard.