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US 5,177,890 AGranted
Panel fence
AssigneesIskra Industry Co., Ltd., Exterior Laboratory Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetu Hisatomi, Hayasi Takemori, Hirosi Omori
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Abstract
A panel fence is provided with a net having a mesh surface, and meshes are distributed on the whole area of the net surface. These meshes are in the shape of a rectangle and the size is equal. A panel piece is removably and selectively mounted on the mesh and blockades the mesh. The panel pieces mounted on the meshes express pictures, letters or patterns on the net.
Claims17
A panel fence comprising:
- net means having a vertical mesh surface, the mesh surface being formed by a plurality of intersecting wire-like portions defining open spaces therebetween, each open space having substantially an identical shape and size and having at least one horizontally extending wire-like portion;
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- a plurality of panel pieces, each panel piece having an elastically deformable portion so as to be removably attached to one of said at least one horizontally extending wire-like portion and each panel piece having a corresponding peripheral shape and peripheral size so as to substantially cover said open space, each of the panel pieces being an integral molded piece of synthetic resin and having a hook portion associated with said elastically deformable portion for swingably and removably engaging said horizontally extending wire-like portion, the panel pieces being swingably hung from said horizontally extending wire-like portion by means of their respective elastically deformable portions and hook portions;
- each of the panel pieces including a pair of parallel walls, each of said parallel walls having said corresponding shape and size and facing each other at a predetermined distance for defining a space therebetween, each of said parallel walls having horizontally extending first and second opposed edges which are integrally joined, first edge of one wall to the first edge of the other wall and second edge of one wall to the second edge of the other wall, by a pair of elastically resilient curved portions, each of the curved portions having an inner diameter large enough to receive the horizontal wire-like portion, one of the curved portions serving as said hook portion;
- and separating means forming an opening in one of the parallel walls and thereby separting same such that the horizontal wire-like portion is passable through said opening when said one of the parallel walls is open.
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A panel fence according to claim 4, wherein said pair of curved portions each have a substantially uniform thickness.
A panel fence comprising:
- net means having a mesh surface, in which a plurality of meshes are distributed on the whole area of the mesh surface, each mesh having substantially the same shape and size and adjoining each other;
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- a panel piece having substantially the same shape and size as one mesh on the mesh surface, and the panel piece being removably engaged with one mesh substantially covers the mesh;
- a mesh adjoining the other in a vertical direction being divided by a pair of horizontal wire portions of the same length which extend horizontally and are separated in the vertical direction;
- the panel piece having a hook portion removably engaged with one of the horizontal wire portions of the mesh;
- the hook portion having a substantially uniform thickness along the horizontal wire portion when engaged with the horizontal wire portion;
- the panel piece being made of an integral molding of synthetic resin, and the panel piece including a pair of parallel walls, having an area slightly smaller than the corresponding area of the mesh, each of said parallel walls having first and second horizontal side edges which correspond to both the horizontal wire portions of a mesh, respectively, a pair of curved portions connected between the first side edges and between the second side edges of the pair of parallel walls, respectively, said pair of curved portions spacing said parallel walls from each other to provide a space therebetween, and separating means in one of the parallel walls for separating said one of the parallel walls into two wall parts, and the curved parts having an inner diameter which enables engagement with a horizontal wire portion, and the separating means allowing the separated one of the parallel walls to elastically deform from the corresponding curved portion as a self hinge;
- said synthetic resin having light penetrability;
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- a light source arranged in said spaces defined between the parallel walls of the panel piece.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.