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US 5,671,913 AGranted
Fence wall construction with decorative facing
OwnerDale E. Vesperinventor
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Abstract
Fence walls comprising flanged supporting posts spaced on centers and uniform lightweight panels doubly slotted at their ends fitting between adjacent posts and engaging such flanges. The engaged post flanges are substantially concealed from view. At least one face of such panels is grooved horizontally so as to accommodate facing brick or other decorative material. Any ungrooved face of the panels may be covered with stucco or like cementitious material, preferably containing elastomeric and lightweight bulking ingredients, as well as desired coloring.
Claims1
An improved fence wall, comprising,
- upright supporting posts with bases underground located on centers spaced apart by a given wall panel width, each post having at least one pair of parallel vertical flanges adapted to engage vertical side edges of wall panels to be supported thereby;
- an upright wall panel per pair of posts, having slotted vertical side edges adapted to be engaged by the post flanges, and having substantially horizontal top and bottom edges extending between their pairs of slotted vertical side edges with a pair of slots therein to a given depth equidistant from the horizontal center-line of the edge and spaced apart at their outermost extent by less than the given thickness of the panel, and having intervening vertical faces recessed to accommodate facing pieces;
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- a multiplicity of facing pieces applied to at least one of the vertical faces, and accommodated within the recessing thereof.
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