US 10,538,940 B2Granted

Horizontal cable rail barrier

AssigneeFortress Iron, LP

InventorsKevin T. Burt, Matthew Carlyle Sherstad

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Abstract

A barrier panel is formed of a first vertical rail member and a second vertical rail member mounted to and extending between a top rail member. The first vertical rail member includes a first web portion and a pair of leg portions extending from the first web portion, and a second web portion disposed spaced apart from the first web portion and between the pair of leg portions. The first web portion and second web portions define a plurality of aligned through holes. A plurality of cables are mounted to and extend between the first vertical rail member and second vertical rail member, wherein a first end of each cable is secured within one set of the aligned first and second through holes and a second end of each cable is secured within an opposite one of the third through holes.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A barrier panel, comprising:

a first vertical rail member comprising a first web portion and a pair of leg portions extending from the first web portion, and a second web portion disposed spaced apart from the first web portion and between the pair of leg portions, the first web portion defining a plurality of first through holes and the second web portion defining a plurality of second through holes aligned with the first through holes, the first and second through holes disposed spaced apart along a length of the first vertical rail member;
a second vertical rail member including a plurality of third through holes spaced apart along a length of the second vertical rail member;
a first rail member extending from the first vertical rail member to the second vertical rail member;
and
a plurality of cables mounted to and extending between the first vertical rail member and second vertical rail member, wherein a first end of each cable is secured within one set of the aligned first and second through holes and a second end of each cable is secured within one of the third through holes.

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A barrier, comprising:

a first vertical rail member comprising a first web portion and a pair of leg portions extending from the first web portion, and a second web portion disposed spaced apart from the first web portion and between the pair of leg portions, the first web portion defining a plurality of first through holes and the second web portion defining a plurality of second through holes aligned with the first through holes, the first and second through holes disposed spaced apart along a length of the first vertical rail member;
a second vertical rail member including a plurality of third through holes spaced apart along a length of the second vertical rail member;
a first rail member extending from the first vertical rail member to the second vertical rail member;
a second rail member extending from the first vertical rail member to the second vertical rail member;
a plurality of cables mounted to and extending between the first vertical rail member and the second vertical rail member, wherein a first end of each cable is secured within one set of the aligned first and second through holes and a second end of each cable is secured within one of the third through holes;
a vertical support member mounted to and extending between the first and the second rail members, said vertical support member including a plurality of fourth through holes spaced apart along a length of the vertical support member, each fourth through hole having one of said cables extending therethrough;
and
a clamp fitting mounted on either the first or the second end of each cable, the clamp fitting operable to adjust a tension in the cable.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/918,752Filed 12 Mar 2018 · continuation
Priority: 14 Apr 2014
Published: US 2018/0202187 A119 Jul 2018
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

E04H 17/163
Using wire panels: using wired panels with frame
E04F 11/1859
Balustrades: wire cables or the like filling elements
E04H 17/1417
Post-and-rail fences, e.g. without vertical cross-members: with vertical cross-members
E04H
Buildings or like structures for particular purposes

Family

Application61/979,083Us provisional application · filed 14 Apr 2014
Application14/684,882Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Apr 2015
US 2018/0202187 A1Pre-grant publication · published 19 Jul 2018
US 9,976,320 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0292234 A1Published application
US 10,538,940 B2This patent

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