CA1244276A

CA1244276A - Impact-absorbing safety hockey fence

Info

Publication number: CA1244276A
Application number: CA000531060A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Robert L. Boyce
Original assignee: BOYCE ROBERT L
Current assignee: BOYCE ROBERT L
Priority date: 1987-03-03
Filing date: 1987-03-03
Publication date: 1988-11-08

Abstract

ABSTRACT
This invention is devised for the purpose of preventing, or minimizing, the injuries, or possible fatalities frequently sustained by players engaged in bodily-contact sports such as ice-hockey, football and similar activities; it may also be adapted to be used around small ground surfaces; which may be used by small children; in order to prevent injuries to the children and to restrain them from wandering away and being lost; the invention is thus of general benefit; the invention consists of a series of panels attached to a series of frames by spring and bolt means, the frames are held in place by plates attached to pipes, attached by means to the frames; the pipes are removably installed in pipe supports, imbedded in concrete footings which are in turn imbedded into the surface of the ice-rink or playing field; it may be seen that when force is applied to the panels by players being checked or tackled into the panels, the panels recede, thus absorbing and dissipating the force and preventing or eliminating such injuries or fatalities.

Description

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__ ________~_ This inventlon is devised to prevent or minimlze the incidence o~` injuries, or possible fa-talities to hockey players and others engaged in rough bodily-con-tact sports, including ~ootball, or any o-ther such sports, whether played on an ice~rink or on a playing ~ield.
T7e invention consists o~ a series of panels which are attached by means to a series o~ perimeter frames, each two of said units being attached by bol-t and spring means to a plate which is in -turn attached by means to pipes which are removably held in plpe-holders imbedded in concrete footings, wh1ch~footirlgs are imbedded around the perimeters o~ an ice~rink or a playing f1eld;
;: In the drawings which illustrate the embodiments o~ this invention and in which the same numbers are used to illustrate the same parts:: ~
~:FIGURE 1: Illustrates a vlew of the combined invention as lt would appear ln place around the ~ perimeter o~ an ice-rink or a pIaying field.
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: FIGURE 2: Illustrates a rear Ia-te~ral view of two sections of the inventlon connected to two ~I supporting pipes.
FIGURE 3: Illus-trates a detailed view of the two secticns o~ the lnvention attached to a connector plate which is a-ttached to a pipe, the bottom o~ which pipe is embedded ln a pipe-holder which is encased ~n cement.

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In the drawings, the number 1 indicates -the panels; the number 2 indicates -the perirneter ~raming the number 3 indicates the washers; -the number 4 indicates the bolts; the number 5 indicates the compression springs; the number 6 indicates the : metal connector plates; the number 7 indicates the pipes; the number 8 indicates the concrete footings;
the number 9 indicates the nuts which hold the bolts 4, around whi~h are disposed the compression springs 5, to the metal connector plate 6 which is attached to the : pipe 7; the number 10 indicates the pipe supports; the number l:l indicatec the pipe suppor-ts base. `
` The mode of use and the operation of this:invent:ion ~ :
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~ :The~panel's 1 are pre-attached by~conventional means~
to~the;périmeter framing 2. The~bolts 4 are pushed through holes provided in -the~panels l and the perlme-ter framing 2 and the compression springs 5 are pushed over ~: the~bolts 4.
The combined uni-ts, as~described,;are placed into :: : :
position on the ice-r:Lnk or playing ~ield in which they ; are devised to be used by lnserting the lower end of the pipe 7 into pipe supports 10, imbedded into:the~

~ ooncrete footings 8 which have:been previously disposed around the perimeters o~ the ice-rink or playing field on which it is proposed to be used.

: - 2 -It may be seen -tha-t th:L.s invent:i.on cou:ld be easily and quick:ly assembled or dls-assembled around any lce-rink or playing Eield or other area on whl.ch it is to be used and that plugs could be provided to be inserted in:to pipe supports imbeclded in the concrete basis as described ln order -to prevent dus-t and debris Erom filling or blocking the pipe supports and a:lso to provide a flat surface for the playing field or o-ther area on which the invention is devised to be used.
It may also be seen that this invention could be used on any size rink or field as each unit may be placed separately, or in combination as may be necessary, to surround the perimeter of any ice-rink or playing--field or area on which it.i.is deemed to be required. For e~ample, a number of units could be placed around school-~ yards or kindergartens for the protection of the children :: and could be adapted to any similar situations.~
The above is my disclosure of my lnventlon and discovery and as it is possible that my invention and discovery may be embodied in forms other -than, or :: dif~ering from, those se-t out ln my present disclosure and speci~ication, I claim as my invention and discovery ~: all variations, modifications and other forms of this invention which may be justly~deemed to fall wlthin the scope:of my appended claims.

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Claims

The embodiments of my invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed and on which I desire to obtain Canadian Letters Patent are defined as follows:

1. An accident and injury preventing ice-rink and playing feild perimeter fence, comprising a combination consisting of a plurality of oblong rectangular panel units, which may be made of wood, or other suitable material, and which are attached by means to oblong rectangular frames made of wood or other suitable material, and which are attached by means to oblong rectangular frames made of wood or other suitable material; two of the said combined units being disposed and adapted to being attached to two oblong rectangular metal plates, each having two apertures therethrough, the plates being attached by weld or other means to the upper and lower outside surfaces of a metal pipe, the oblong rectangular metal plates on the outside surfaces of the pipe are attached to the two combined panel and frame units by means of bolts therethrough, the bolts being disposed and adapted to receive springs around them; which bolts and springs are held in place through the apertures in the connector plates by nuts, the lower sections of the pipes are disposed and adapted to be removably inserted into circular metal pipe-sleeves welded to a metal base, which pipe-sleeves and base are imbedded into a concrete footing disposed and adapted to be placed around and under the outside perimeters of an ice-rink or playing field or other area, the combined two panel units and pipe being disposed and adapted to being removably placed, in series, around the said perimeters, as required, by inserting the ends of the pipes attached thereto as above defined into the pipe-sleeves in the concrete footings.