ES2284353A1 - Device for preventing entrance of birds in interior of protected place, without perching of birds in device, has fastening mediums, which fixes itself in sides of space that is to be protected - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a fastening medium, which fixes itself in one of the sides of a space that is to be protected. One or multiple mediums are provided, which serve as guide. Another fastening medium is provided for fixing to the other side of the space. Threads, cords or another material which is capable to be strained, preferably elastic of small thickness and translucent are inserted in the former fastening medium. The material is also inserted in the guide medium and the later fastening medium. The mediums when fixed in one and other ends of the space and the threads are inserted, the space remains completely protected.

Description

Apparatus that prevents the entry of birds into the inside the place it protects, without being able to perch on the apparatus.

The present invention is related generally with an apparatus that prevents the entry of birds, such like the pigeons, among other species, through the hollows, Whatever its nature, form and purpose, existing in all kinds of constructions, such as houses, buildings, monuments, as well as ships, freight trains, vehicles, et cetera, and perch in innumerable places, particularly in the buildings, such as windowsill, cornices, exterior pipes, terraces and in general all kinds of projections existing in them. With this the eradication is pursued total of the daily settlements of these birds inside and in the vicinity of protected gaps.

One of the symptoms that make this necessary protection is when bird droppings are observed on the ropes intended to hang clothes, as well as on the windowsill of a window, or the ground floor of the building of the same place We are referring. When these symptoms appear the number of birds that perch in places where it is difficult to reach man is growing, becoming useless day, for example, a patio, preventing tending clothes to neighbors and using them to necessities to which it was destined.

Various methods have been used such as suspended computer disks, plastic bags knotted on the bars of the windows, magnets, devices that produce fields magnetic or fixed along the railings, to avoid  that nest or perch in certain places such as the sill of the windows, railings, on the flat roofs of the buildings, without eradicating the problem, given that the pigeons are located in other nearby places such as cornices, exterior pipes and all kinds of projections for very reduced as they are, flooding with excrement the walls, bars, windowsill and patio floor daily.

There is an invention with the application number 94109795.8 and with publication number 2 128 464, which exposes a diversity of devices among themselves one of which (not covered by said invention, as expressly stated in the document) deals with to individually protect the holes in the roofed terraces with railing, whose main component is the wire (material rigid and visible from the outside) that includes a plurality of magnetic members and a curtain mechanism to displace some or all wires, arranged in parallel in the plane vertical with respect to the railing, so that it can be evacuated in if necessary the room in case of emergency such as a fire. On this particular device, it should be said that it would prevent bird entry on the terrace, but does not prevent them from perching on others parts of the building such as commas, pipes and all kinds of outgoing existing in them. On the other hand, the system is very visible from the outside giving a feeling of shaving of the facade, with a complex mechanism that if it fails can be in Urgent evacuation cases of extreme gravity.

Today, in some cases the holders of terraced floors of the type to which the invention refers, which they do is close it with aluminum and glass screens and it Partially remove the problem, which, however, continues  subsisting in hard-to-reach places for man, but extremely easy for birds, which need a very small space to settle in other places probably very next to the protected terrace of either ways.

The invention invention patent refers to other devices to protect the floor from roofs and prevent the pigeons, for example, perch on them. With it manages to prevent them from landing in some parts of the building but not avoid it in other parts of it, such as outgoing pipes, You eat, etc. On the other hand, these systems that include a large number of devices, mounted and fixed individually on the roof floor, makes in case of need of transit in it is necessary to disassemble and reassemble each of them, with the problems of higher economic and time costs consequent employee. Since it is necessary to deploy a large number of devices that include magnetic magnets incorporated into rotating arms in the horizontal plane of the ground and held on a vertical base that necessarily rests on the ground, the cost soars if you want to protect a large surface dimensions as per general rule have all roofs.

The solution is complicated in those buildings where clothes are laid by ropes through the windows in a common interior courtyard, in which several pigeons perch. TO Sometimes, there are terraces outside and facing the street but hang clothes in these places giving up doing it in the yard, apart from rendering a considerable space of the terrace useless, it affects the view of it from the outside.

On the other hand, once the presence of birds exist in the building, it is the case that, before the forgetfulness of close a window, have entered the house with the corresponding consequences of having nested within the same.

It is common to see how a dove nests in the window sill although it has bars of bars less than 10 centimeters, especially if the floor is uninhabited by some time, with the unpleasant consequences that this entails for the rest of the neighbors, since the presence of only one makes that many more frequent the place flooding it with faeces.

The solution of the problem starts from a premise important which is to avoid partial solutions and not they get the eradication of the problem, consisting of putting sharp elements of various kinds, wires on the windowsill or window frame, respectively, or any element that hinder any action such as laying clothes If it is done from the windows.

This gives us the clue that perhaps a solution is to establish a conventional network, such as those used to fishing, with a network of longitudinal resistant threads and transverse protecting the entire hole, such as a patio of community destined to hang clothes. However, this system shave the facade, and the wind soon destroys the net, apart from the noise produced by the enveloping effect of the air. To avoid part of these inconveniences, we would have to strain strongly the network with which we would have the effect even more negative that the pigeons in greater numbers would perch on the same once tensioned, in the horizontal or oblique plane to ground.

It is the object of this invention to provide a apparatus, which allows to extend a singular network, which lets the light and air in its entirety, which protects the entire outer hollow, which is not practically visible from the outside or from the interior, which is very economical and very easy to install and uninstall and that prevents both the passage of the birds towards the inside the protected space, such as perching on the device, once tense

The solution to the problem that this presents invention can be global, that is, for the entire community of neighbors, starting at the beginning of a single installation depending it of the configuration of the building and of the parts open to the outside that they want to protect.

But it can also be individual to protect smaller spaces in those cases in which the Community You are not interested in taking collective action.

In both cases, after installation of the installed apparatus or devices, the birds approaching they perceive the obstacle in such a way that they turn around and don't They try again.

The apparatus referred to herein invention protects all places where birds can perch, arranging in parallel a series of tanza threads or other material, elastic or flexible, tense, semi-transparent or translucent, with a distance preferably at about 5 centimeters between them, which go properly inserted and fixed to the two main members that are placed and  set in the parts where the gap or space begins and ends that you want to protect, such as a courtyard of a building. Between the two main members can be placed others that serve as a guide to the thread used. This device resists inclement weather for many years, being practically imperceptible by the human eye, without shaving the facade of the building or place where it is installed. Said apparatus, set at the limits protected area outside, it is not necessary to place no additional devices on the railings, windowsill windows, commas and other outgoing existing in it, with what which one can use the yard for the uses it has, disappearing entirely the settlement of the birds in said space.

This same device can be used to protect the roofs and roofs of buildings and monuments, preventing birds from perching in all these places. But nevertheless, the most important protection of this invention is directed fundamentally to protect the yards in a global way interiors or other places that are open to the outside, intended to hang clothes or other necessities and to be open causes birds to nest or perch within same.

In the event of an emergency, for example, firefighters need to enter the inner courtyard of the building, the material used can be cut simply and fast On the other hand, there is the possibility of releasing one of the fasteners in which the threads or ropes are fixed with which manages to remove the device without any difficulty.

It is also common to observe in large boats, as birds perch especially when they are docked at the port, mostly at dusk. In those of small dimensions what is usually done is to protect the gaps with a plastic sheath, which prevents birds from staining the Inside the boat. However, this does not prevent they settle on the sheath itself, staining it with excrement, the which often stops getting because of the difficulty and time that is lost in extending it and holding it firmly to the boat, especially when it is used frequently.

With the present invention the gaps of the boats are permanently protected after the installation, both day and night, without obstructing the vision nor the maneuverability of it, with the great advantages that It implies that the device is barely noticeable by the human eye. On the other hand, in the event that it is decided to pick up the device the maneuver is very simple and very fast, the same as its subsequent placement. Since birds cannot sit on the device or  the problem of droppings that expel birds when they perish disappears totally.

The invention is especially useful on yachts and large vessels, which they have on the stern deck outdoor recreation and recreation areas, such as chairs, sun loungers, tables, which should be protected from the droppings of birds.

With this device you can also protect a certain extent of crops, plantations or groves, preventing birds from perching in that space.

According to the background expressed, elaborates the present invention.

An apparatus is provided with this invention. which, in general, serves to prevent birds from entering a certain open space outside and perch inside of the same, without being able to do it either in the device itself.

In particular, said apparatus can protect, among others, the following spaces:

a) The gaps of buildings and constructions such as yards are common or private, intended to tend the clothing or other necessities, avoiding birds perching on different projections, cornices, clotheslines, roofs, pipes exterior, windowsill and all kinds of projections and places inside it capable of being occupied by they.

b) Roofs, roofs, and upper parts of the same passable, of all types of constructions, of such in a way that prevents birds from landing in such places.

c) Decks of boats or wagons of trains open abroad.

d) A certain space of extensions of crops, plantations, groves and so on.

It is also the object of this invention to provide an apparatus of similar characteristics that prevents the entry of the birds in open or roofed terraces, and exterior hollows of windows, whatever its shape and that prevents it from perching on The protected places. Its installation and uninstallation is Extremely simple and economical.

According to the main example covered by the present invention, an apparatus comprises a first member that is place at one end of the hole or space to protect.

This member owns or incorporates a plurality of hooks arranged in parallel along the same, preferably separated from each other about 5 centimeters. Said hooks, in figures 1, 2, protrude from the member to a prudential distance, obliquely, at an angle of about 25º above the floor plan on which the member is placed and which prevents birds perch on it.

On each of the hooks the thread or material used. To facilitate the operation in large gaps such as that expressed in figure 1 (inner courtyard), are proposes to do it by means of reels that contain the thread and that they are provisionally fixed on said member at the height of each One of the hooks.

In parallel to this member it is placed, in its case, one or more members that will serve as a guide and subject to thread, also provided with hooks, through which It passes each of the threads. The operation is completed by setting also in parallel following the guide members, the last member that is fixed on the other side of the hole to be protected. About this last member also provided with hooks, the threads are inserted and they are fixed to each one of them.

In the present invention are described a Below are the attached drawings:

Figure 1 is a panoramic view of how the device would be deployed in an open courtyard of a building which serves to prevent birds from entering the protected space without being able to perch on the device.

Figure 2 is a side view of the apparatus composed of two main members and one that serves as a guide, represented in figure 1.

Figure 3 and Figure 4 represent a view front of a window protected with a device, deployed in the interior or exterior window recess respectively, which serves to prevent them from entering, perching and, where appropriate, nesting in space  protected.

Figure 5 represents a perspective of a apparatus mounted on a covered terrace and which grants the same protection as outlined in the previous figures.

In this figure we observe how two are placed main members at opposite ends of the terrace and one which serves as a guide in the middle of the two in the vertical plane to the ground from the ceiling to the railing, so that the thread is passes through the hooks in a plane parallel to the ground.

Figure 6 is a perspective of an apparatus mounted on a covered terrace and that gives the same protection as the one outlined in the previous figures. In this figure we observe how eight main members are placed at opposite ends from the terrace, 4 on the roof and another 4 on the railing, such so that the thread is passed through the hooks in a plane vertical to the ground

Figure 7 represents a side perspective of a pin placed on one of the hooks of a member main and that serves to facilitate the work of maintaining the thread tension

Figure 8 represents a side view of a type of spool that contains the thread and that can be attached provisionally to the principal member to facilitate the work of thread deployment, on the device in an orderly manner. Saying Reel is preferably placed in the same number and in line front with each of the hooks that the member has principal.

Figure 9 represents a member who is they incorporate the hooks, opened by one of their sides to facilitate replacement work in case of breakage of any of they, which are fixed by pins or thymes to said member. In this drawing, we observe how there are some perforations on one side of the limb, which serve to set more or less amount of hooks depending on the dimension of the birds that want to prevent the passage to the inside the protected space.

Next it will be described in detail the apparatus drawn in figures 1 to 6:

In the drawings, reference number 1 designates the two main brackets that are fixed at opposite ends of the protected space that is an inner courtyard. Reference number 2, is a member or support that serves as a guide to the thread, which goes inserted and not knotted to said member for each of the hooks that support has. The reference number 3, is the thread that extends in parallel, inserted into the hooks corresponding members and finally set to main. Said thread in the example is fixed in one of the main members and tense each other. The reference number 4, designates several hooks arranged in the main member and in the guide members. Reference numbers 5 and 6 represent a wall and roof respectively. Reference number 7 represents the window sill. The reference number 8 designates the pin that facilitates the task of fixing the thread inserted on the hook to a certain tension. Finally the reference number 9 designates a type of reel that engages on one of the members  main that serves to facilitate the work of the deployment of thread to the other members to fix them on their respective places.

The apparatus in question can be provided with a device that allows to wind and unwind the manual thread or mechanically by means of, for example, other reels, such so that they facilitate the maneuver of releasing one of the members, and that  at the same time as it is retracted, the thread is retracted in the another member This utility is important for example in windows from where clothes are laid, moving the device away with very easy to allow folding or folding in an instant the apparatus, without the wires being loose.

Claims (10)

1. Apparatus used to prevent birds enter a certain space and perch inside the same, not being able to do it in the device itself that includes: Two main members (1) that are placed in the ends of the hole or space to be protected. One, two or more guide members (2) that are they will place among the main members (1) and that will be deployed in if necessary due to the structure, complexity or dimension of the space to protect. Each member has or is incorporated a plurality of hooks (3) whatever their shape, composition or design characteristics, which are separated each other, along each member, at a distance that depends on the kind of birds whose step is to prevent, and that serve to fix and drive the thread used. Some pins that are placed in the hooks (3) to fix the thread tension (4) on the main members and facilitate the work of fixing the thread (4) to the hitch (3). Thread or any similar material (4), preferably translucent, thin, flexible, resistant to inclement weather and that allows to be tense, which extends preferably in parallel through the hooks of each of the guide or main members, which once deployed by all hooks serve to prevent birds from entering the inside the protected space. 2. Apparatus according to claim one, whose main members (1) and the member or guide members (2), are coupled, inserted or fixed in any way, to other secondary members that serve to hold the apparatus and arrange it at a certain height, such as a roof or a vessel, in such a way as to allow, for example, transit to Man inside the protected space. These secondary members can be incorporate or provide hooks in the same way that they are arranged in the main members and guide members. 3. The Apparatus according to claim one or second in which the hooks are arranged in two or more different height levels, along the members. 4. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 3 in which reels or similar devices are housed, couple, fit, insert, regardless of the mechanism used for it, inside or outside one or more members and that serve to house the thread (4), and its deployment and folding, manual or mechanical, allowing or not tensioning. Sayings reels or similar devices can avoid the need for hooks and pins on the members where they are placed. 5. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 4 in which each member, hooks and reels are made well of a metallic material, such as aluminum, iron Steel; or of a non-metallic material such as plastic, wood, synthetic resin or others that have a firmness such that guarantee its durability and avoid that the thread used does not lose its tension. 6. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 3 in which each member takes any form, elongated, square, rectangular, oval, circular, etc. 7. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 3 in which each member is compact or hollow; gifted or not holes, with or without edges of any type. 8. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 3 in which the hooks can take any form and placement on the member. 9. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 3 in which the hooks can go on the member. assembled, inserted, coupled, embedded, articulated or attached to same. 10. Apparatus claimed in the claims 1 to 4 in which the reels or container apparatus of the tanza, they can take any form and be assembled, inserted, coupled, embedded, articulated or attached to it, either in its inside or outside in any way possible.