Patent Application
20200232250
The following includes information that may be useful in understanding the present disclosure. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art nor material to the presently described or claimed inventions, nor that any publication or document that is specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
The present invention relates generally to the field of fencing of existing art and more specifically relates to prefabricated fence.
Conventional fences suffer from the disadvantage of being difficult and costly to erect. This is particularly true of post and rail fences of the type that are often made of roughly debarked wood. These fences require that the rails be cut to length on site or precision post placement is required, which is time consuming and costly. Moreover, the wood of which such fences are constructed is subject to rotting and termite infestation. Another common fence system is a T-post and wire strand mainly used to contain livestock. Although less expensive than wood, it requires a great deal of maintenance and provides little security. A better solution is desired.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,025,289 to Kastien, Emil P. relates to a fence post. The described fence post includes steel sections made in varying lengths. Secured to the face of the flange or head, and at predetermined points throughout the length of the section is a plurality of hooks. These hooks are secured by being welded to the body of the post and preferably in line with the axis. Each hook is formed with a flat base or securement portion and embodying sufficient material for an efficient weld when laid against the face of the flange or head so as to insure permanency when welded, and to stand the ordinary and usual abuses to which post sections of this type are subjected. The retention portion of each hook extends upwardly from its welded end and is bent or bulged outwardly to provide a seat to receive and retain a strand or cable.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known fence art, the present disclosure provides a novel prefabricated fencing system. The general purpose of the present disclosure, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a prefabricated fencing system including a plurality of fence posts having at least one hanger gusset and rail sections that may be configured to be coupled together via a threaded coupling and welded to at least one hanger gusset. The hanger gussets are fixed to at least one fence post and may include rail sections may also include at least one vertical mounting plate for affixing a windbreak and/or a privacy/security structures.
A prefabricated fencing system is disclosed herein. The prefabricated fencing system includes at least one fence post including; at least one hanger gusset welded to said at least one fence post at a right angle configured to receive and support at least one rail in a horizontal relation to a ground surface at a predetermined height. A plurality of the at least one fence posts and rail sections comprising the at least one rail is coupled together in functional combination to provide continuous prefabricated fencing (as a system).
According to another embodiment, a method of installing a prefabricated fence system is also disclosed herein. The method of installing a prefabricated fence system includes providing the prefabricated fence system, coupling a plurality of fence posts and rail sections together to provide a continuous prefabricated fencing system, setting the at least two fence posts into a ground-volume, attaching a rail of the rail sections to a hanger gusset in a horizontal relation to a ground surface, setting additional fence posts into the ground-volume, coupling additional rails, and affixing a wind break and/or privacy/security structures.
For purposes of summarizing the invention, certain aspects, advantages, and novel features of the invention have been described herein. It is to be understood that not necessarily all such advantages may be achieved in accordance with any one particular embodiment of the invention. Thus, the invention may be embodied or carried out in a manner that achieves or optimizes one advantage or group of advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving other advantages as may be taught or suggested herein. The features of the invention which are believed to be novel are particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with reference to the following drawings and detailed description.
The figures which accompany the written portion of this specification illustrate embodiments and methods of use for the present disclosure, a prefabricated fencing system, constructed and operative according to the teachings of the present disclosure.
The various embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, wherein like designations denote like elements.
As discussed above, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to fences and more particularly to a prefabricated fencing system as used to improve fencing for a continuous fencing system.
Generally speaking, a prefabricated fence post may be constructed from sections of steel to be used for continuous fencing. The fence post preferably includes hooked gussets welded on the side of the post that allows the installer to use pipe as the rail. Preferably, each gusset has a curved notch about the same size as the diameter of the pipe being used for the rails. The notch is helpful in holding the pipe in place, as the fence is being erected by keeping the pipe sections in place while the sections are being coupled together. Once the posts have the sections of pipe perched on the gussets and coupled, the rails can then be welded to the gussets creating a high quality, long lasting fence achieved with minimal time to install using lower cost tubing.
Referring now, more specifically to the drawings by numerals of reference, there is shown in
According to one embodiment, the prefabricated fencing system 100 may be arranged as a kit 105. In particular, the prefabricated fencing system 100 may further include a set of instructions 107. The instructions 107 may detail functional relationships in relation to the structure of the prefabricated fencing system 100 such that the prefabricated fencing system 100 can be used, maintained, or the like, in a preferred manner.
It is also important to note the in other embodiments of prefabricated fencing system 100, the at least one fence post 110 may be configured whereby the at least one hanger gusset 116 is fixed to the at least one post 110 at a desirable angle that does not comprise a right-angle and the at least one hanger gusset 116 may be fixed to more than one side of said fence.
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It should be noted that step 508 is an optional step and may not be implemented in all cases. Optional steps of method of use 500 are illustrated using dotted lines in
The embodiments of the invention described herein are exemplary and numerous modifications, variations and rearrangements can be readily envisioned to achieve substantially equivalent results, all of which are intended to be embraced within the spirit and scope of the invention. Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientist, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application.
