Dasher board system for athletic playing surfaces

A dasher board system comprising a plurality of interconnected dasher boards for surrounding an athletic playing surface, comprising:

• a plurality of rectangular dasher segments, each including a front lower facing panel with a top edge, a bottom edge and first and second side edges;
• a plurality of battens including a top batten, a bottom batten and a plurality of upright battens, positioned to define an outer frame surrounding an associated one of said lower facing panels;
• a plurality of first upright and spaced apart edge support frame assemblies, one at each junction of adjacent facing panels and anchored with respect to the ground, and a fastening means for removably fixing each of said upright battens to one of said first upright edge support frame assemblies;
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• a plurality of horizontal frame members, a means for securing said horizontal frame members with respect to said first upright frame assemblies, and a means for removably fixing said top and bottom battens to associated ones of said horizontal frame members;
• wherein each of said battens includes an extension inwardly of said outer frame and disposed to form an overlapping engagement with the associated front lower facing panel along said top edge, bottom edge and side edges, whereby said battens cooperate with said first and second fastening means to removably secure said associated front lower facing panel against said horizontal frame members and said first uprights.

A dasher board system including a plurality of dasher boards for surrounding an athletic playing surface, comprising:

• a plurality of dasher boards each having a lower section, including a flat facing portion and a supporting flange substantially perpendicular to said facing portion having a top portion, a bottom portion and two side portions;
• a plurality of upright edge support frame assemblies secured with respect to the said playing surface;
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• means forming a U-shaped channel along each of said side portions, the channels of opposed side portions of adjacent panels cooperating to form a rectangular enclosure for receiving an associated one of said upright support assemblies to secure said dasher boards with respect to said frame assemblies a separate U-shaped channel means mounted on the exposed surface of each of said top flange portions and lined with an elastically yieldable cushion insert and open upwardly from said top flange portions, and a plurality of upright H-shaped channel members, each of said H-shaped channel members configured to slidably engage one of said upright edge support frame assemblies.

In an assembly including a plurality of interconnected dasher boards for surrounding an athletic playing field, including a first dasher board having a first lower panel, and a second dasher board adjacent said first dasher board, said second board including a second lower panel and a substantially transparent upper panel;

• an improvement comprising:
• an upright support member between said first and second dasher boards;
• a substantially transparent right triangular panel having first and second mutually perpendicular side edges supported along said upright support member and a horizontal top edge of said first lower panel, respectively;
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• an inclined rail secured at opposite ends thereof to said upright support member and to said top edge and running along an inclined edge of said triangular panel to cooperate with said top edge and said upright support member to surround and support said transparent panel.