Portable safety barrier
OwnerJeffery Robinsoninventor
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Abstract
A portable safety barrier that can be set up across a drive way or other path to provide a visible and physical indication of a safe zone boundary particularly for children. Netting attached to a core or reel disposed in a housing forms the barrier. The netting is free to deploy from the housing for attachment to a remote post; both the housing and post including an auger for anchoring the housing and post to ground. The housing has a rewind system to reel in the netting which includes a gear train for mechanical advantage. The rewind system operates manually and with out a bias assist. A selectively operated stop cooperates with the rewind system to tighten the netting after deployment and keeps the netting taut.
Claims15
A portable safety barrier including an extendable barrier netting comprising:
- a) a frame disposable in an upright position;
- b) a net reel rotatably mounted to the frame;
- c) an elongate net wound on the net reel, the net having one end fixed to the net reel and an opposite end;
- d) a bias-free drive system carried by the frame and operably connected to the net reel, the drive system allowing free unbiased rotation of the net reel in an unwind direction for extending the netting from the frame to a deployed position and the drive system being manually operated to rotate the net reel in a winding direction for rewinding the netting;
- e) the drive system including a one-way stop selectively engaged to prevent rotation of the net reel in the unwind direction;
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- f) a support post paired with the frame movable to a location spaced from the frame and attachable to the net opposite end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.