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US 4,883,256 AGranted
Picket fence and method of construction
OwnerThomas J. Hebdainventor
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Abstract
A picket fence assembly having upper and lower rails each with a plurality of non-circular holes receiving a plurality of vertical pickets through respective aligned holes and with the pickets having transverse through-holes in alignment and receiving a rigid transverse rod preventing rotations of the pickets.
Claims5
A picket fence assembly, comprising in combination
- upper and lower horizontal rails each having a plurality of non-circular through-holes therein,
- a plurality of vertically disposed pickets arranged in mutually parallel relationship between said rails and extending through respectively aligned ones of said through-holes in said rails,
- said pickets being respectively in said through-holes from an assembly position wherein said pickets are axially movable in said through-holes to a locking position wherein vertical movement of said pickets relative to said rails is prevented,
- said pickets being provided with transverse through-holes which are in mutual alignment when each of said pickets is in said locking position, and
- a rigid rod slidably extending through said transverse through-holes in said pickets to prevent rotation of said pickets from said locking positions to said assembly positions.
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