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US 4,062,522 AGranted
Picket fence with removable intermediate flats
OwnerJoseph Lepetriinventor
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Abstract
A picket fence arrangement in which vertically positioned picket members are provided with longitudinal grooves or slots along their lengthwise edges. Metal slats or strips are inserted into oppositely facing and neighboring grooves. The slat inserts cover the gaps separating the vertically standing picket members, so that the fence serves to peserve privacy of the area about which the fence is positioned. The pickets are held in vertically standing position by means of cross bars, and the metal insert slats may have a substantially slight curvature in the cross-sectional plane.
Claims9
A picket fence comprising in combination:
- picket members spaced from each other and having lengthwise edges and including cross-bar means interconnecting said picket members at spaced intervals and supporting said picket members;
- groove means along the opposite lengthwise edges of each of said picket members;
- single-piece strip-shaped elements insertable in neighboring oppositely-facing grooves, the spaces between said neighboring grooves corresponding substantially to the spacing between picket members, said spacing between adjacent picket members corresponding substantially to the width of a picket member, said strip-shaped elements being of a width to cover said spaces when inserted in place in said neighboring grooves;
- the lengthwise edges of said strip-shaped elements being inserted only in said lengthwise neighboring grooves for covering said spaces between picket members, said strip-shaped elements being substantially parallel to said picket members and being free of contact with said cross-members interconnecting said picket members, said strip-shaped elements being selectively inserted into said groove means for preventing vision through said fence and said strip-shaped elements being selectively removable from said groove means to permit vision through said fence.
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