Retractable bird deterring device
OwnerHarold G. Heroninventor
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Abstract
A retractable device for deterring birds from landing, roosting or nesting on a surface of a building structure, the device including at least two holding mechanisms each having a mounting member to be attached to the building structure and an arm for securing wire between the wire holding mechanisms, the arms being pivotally connected at respective pivots to the mounting members and being selectively pivotable to an operational protracted position in which the arms and wire lie above the surface of the building structure and to a non-operational retracted position in which the arms and wire lie below the surface of the building structure.
Claims6
A wire holding mechanism for use in deterring birds from landing, roosting or nesting on a wall structure of a building, the wire holding mechanism comprising:
- a base plate for attachment selectively to a horizontal surface or a vertical surface of the wall structure;
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- an arm having means for securing wire,
- wherein the base plate lies in a plane and has a protrusion integrally connected to an edge of the base plate and being located entirely on one side of the base plate, the arm having a first end pivotally connected to the protrusion and the arm being selectively pivotable between four positions without the first end of the arm interfering with the base plate or intersecting the plane of the baseplate, the four positions being first and second opposed positions in which the arm extends substantially parallel to the base plate and third and fourth opposed positions in which the arm extends substantially perpendicularly to the base plate, whereby, with the base plate mounted on a vertical surface of the wall structure, the first position defines an operational protracted position in which the arm projects above the wall structure and the second position defines a non-operational retracted position in which the arm does not project above the wall structure and, with the base plate mounted on a horizontal surface of the wall structure, the third position defines an operational protracted position in which the arm projects above the wall structure and the fourth position defines a non-operational retracted position in which the arm does not project above the wall structure.
A retractable device mounted on a horizontal or vertical surface of a wall structure of a building for deterring birds from landing, roosting or nesting on the wall structure, the retractable device comprising:
- at least two wire holding mechanisms mounted on the horizontal or vertical surface at spaced locations and wire strung between the two wire holding mechanisms, each wire holding mechanism comprising a base plate attached to the horizontal or vertical surface;
- and an arm having means for securing the wire,
- wherein the base plate has a protrusion integrally connected to an edge of the base plate and being located entirely on one side of the base plate, the arm being pivotally connected to the protrusion and being selectively pivotable between two mutually opposed positions without the arm interfering with the base plate or the wall structure, one of the two positions being an operational protracted position in which the arm projects above the wall structure and the other of the two positions being a non-operational retracted position in which the arm does not project above the wall structure.
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