Partition system
AssigneeSpaceguard Incorporated
InventorsRonald W. Linn, Harold W. Pool
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a wire mesh security enclosure. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a plurality of unstacked, vertically oriented rectangular mesh panels coupled together to form a mesh wall. The mesh wall is anchored along a periphery defining the area to be protected. The mesh enclosure is reinforced by a plurality of independently positioned support posts offset from the interior of the mesh wall. The support posts are anchored to the floor interior of the mesh wall and are respectively coupled to the interior side of the mesh wall. The design of the security enclosure provides increased flexibility regarding the placement of the anchor posts and permits one-person assembly.
Claims22
A wire mesh security enclosure system, comprising in combination:
- a plurality of base shoes fastened to a floor and defining a periphery;
- a plurality of unstacked rectangular framed wire mesh panels positioned substantially continuously around the periphery, each panel resting in two respective base shoes, wherein the panels intersect to define a mesh wall;
- a plurality of post anchor shoes positioned offset from the interior of the mesh wall and fastened to the floor;
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- a plurality of posts wherein each post is affixed to a respective anchor shoe;
- wherein the posts extend substantially vertically adjacent the mesh wall and are coupled to the mesh wall;
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- wherein the post anchor shoes are positioned independent of the intersections of the panels.
A security partition comprising:
- a wire mesh wall having a plurality of adjacently connected unstacked framed wire mesh panels and defining an enclosure;
- a plurality of base shoes anchored to a floor and positioned directly beneath the wire mesh wall, whereby the base shoes support the wire mesh wall above the floor;
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- a plurality of post members positioned interior of the enclosure, wherein each respective post member is coupled to both the floor and the wire mesh wall;
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- a plurality of anchor shoes anchored to the floor on a line forming an outline parallel and interior to the enclosure, the distance between two anchor shoes being variable and substantially greater than the width of the framed wire mesh panels;
- wherein the framed wire mesh panels are rectangular, each having two long sides and two short sides;
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- wherein the long sides are oriented vertically.
A method for assembling a security partition, comprising the steps of:
- a) defining a periphery of an area to be enclosed;
- b) spacing base shoes along the periphery;
- c) inserting the bottom portions of rectangular mesh panels with the base shoes;
- d) rotating the mesh panels into a vertical orientation;
- e) attaching adjacent mesh panels together to form a substantially continuous wall;
- f) fastening anchor shoes to a floor offset from and adjacently interior to the wall;
- g) inserting the posts vertically into a respective anchor shoe;
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- h) securing the posts to the respective anchor shoes and to the wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.