Foldable backstop and like structure

A factory-fabricated baseball backstop or like structure constructed to fold compactly for transportation to an erection site, comprising a plurality of side-by-side, laterally adjoining and hinged panel sections, each having a frame made up of steel tubing as upstanding post and transverse frame members, and having steel chain link fence fabric covering the frame;

• hinges in the form of relatively short sleeves of steel tubing rigidly secured in mutually spaced relationship to respective transverse frame members of one of mutually adjoining sections and freely encircling a post frame member of the other said mutually adjoining sections as a hinge sleeve, said post constituting the hinge pintle;
• means attaching one side of the chain link fence fabric of said one section to a post frame member of that section;
• means attaching the other side of the chain link fence fabric of said one section to the hinge-sleeve-encircled, post frame member of said other of the mutually adjoining sections, the chain link fence fabric of said one section being stretched taut between the post frame members to which it is attached;
• and means for preventing hinging action of the hinges following erection of the structure, whereby, in the erected structure, adjoining panel sections have a single post in common which is a part of only one of said adjoining panel sections, mutually adjacent lateral margins of the fence fabric of the respective adjoining panel sections being attached to the common post under stretching stress.