Portable pole systems for supporting fencing, game nets, rope line dividers, and for landscaping uses, and the like
AssigneeMarkers, Inc.
InventorDale J. Hlavin
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Abstract
A movable pole system supporting divider material such as fencing, netting, or rope divider between a plurality of laterally spaced vertical poles orientated in a predetermined ground pattern. Each pole contains one or more connectors secured to the exterior surface of the pole for supporting the mesh material. Each connector includes a quick connect and disconnect mechanism comprising at least three outwardly extending elbows each with a vertically disposed arm. The upwardly extending vertical arms are in cooperative combination with the downwardly depending vertical arms to facilitate connection and disconnection of the fencing, provided the exterior vertical arms are opposed in direction to the intervening interior vertical arm.
Claims16
A portable pole system supporting liner dividing material stretched between two or more vertical poles, the linear dividing material being mesh fencing or netting or rope divider or the like, the linear dividing material stretched between vertical poles adapted to be held upright and define spacing by the pole system, the pole system comprising:
- a plurality of vertical poles adapted to be secured upright in the ground, each pole fitted with at least one, connector means for supporting the linear dividing material vertically with the ground;
- each connector being a hollow device comprising a sidewall configuration with an interior surface adapted to slip fit over the exterior surface of the vertical pole, where each connector is securely engaging the exterior surface of one of the respective poles, where each connector has at least three spaced elbows extending, in a direction laterally outwardly from the connector, where two of the elbows are exterior elbows and the third elbow is a center elbow disposed between the two exterior elbows, each said elbow having a vertically orientated arm member, where the vertical arms of the two exterior elbows are orientated in the same vertical direction, and the vertical arm of the center elbow is orientated in a vertical direction opposite of the arms of the two exterior elbows;
- the linear dividing material supported by each connector with the linear dividing material disposed between the arms of the connector and the connector sidewall to support the linear dividing material vertically;
- where the poles are cylindrical rigid plastic hollow tubing substantially circular in cross section, each pole having at least three protruding linear external ribs circumferentially spaced and molded integrally with the respective rigid plastic pole to provide reinforcing linear strength to the pole, where each hollow connector comprises a cylindrical sidewall with a circular interior ring surface adapted to tightly engage the three external reinforcing ribs to secure each connector to the respective pole.
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