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US 4,240,615 AGranted
Fence post with invertible sections
AssigneeDura-Bilt Products, Inc.
InventorRaymond W. Sickler
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Abstract
A fence post comprising male and female members. Each member has a circumferential transverse shape of a portion of a plane geometric figure. A key on the male member is slidingly interlocked with a keyway on the female member to connect the members together. Fence rails are attached together via the fence post, and one of the fence post members can be inverted to alter the orientation of fence rails with respect to each other. Zig-zag fence configurations can thus be defined as easily as straight line fence configurations.
Claims9
A fence post comprising:
- an elongate male member having a transverse outer peripheral shape of about one-half of a plane figure and a cross-piece defining one side of said male member, said male member including a key defining means extending longitudinally of said male member on said cross-piece near the longitudinal center of said cross-piece and rail attaching means on said male member;
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- an elongate female member connected to said male member and having a transverse outer peripheral shape of about one-half of a plane figure and a female cross-piece defining one side of said female member, said female member including a keyway defining means extending longitudinally of said female member on said female cross-piece near the longitudinal centerline of said female cross-piece, and rail attaching means on said female member, said male key defining means slidingly engaging said female keyway defining means to attach said members together, said rail attaching means being oriented obliquely with respect to said cross-pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.