FR2800779A1 - SUPPORT POST FOR FENCE - Google Patents

Abstract

The hollow fence post comprises a front part (A) and a fastening part (B) for the fence panel and rear part (C). The fastening part has two grooves (1a,1b) with openings on opposite sides. The grooves have a groove (7a,7b) laterally edged by a corner iron (4a,4b) formed by folding the sheet metal defining the groove bottom walls on itself.

Description

SUPPORT POST FOR FENCE

  The present invention relates to a fence and more specifically the support posts thereof and their particular construction. It also relates to the means of assembling the posts and the

  mesh panels used to erect said fence.

  At the present time, essentially two types of chain-link fence are known. For fences intended for professionals and whose installation is carried out with advancement, and chain-link fences intended, for example, for private users, for which the installation s '' by having

  first of all the posts to come then fix the mesh panels there.

  In general, professional fences which arise at the advancement, that is to say by alternately placing a post and then a mesh panel, have drawbacks related in particular to their implementation or their reliability. Indeed, some existing fences require for their installation the use of specific tools intended to assemble the panels and their support posts in addition, they sometimes require the use of a locking piece

  complementary, as illustrated by patent FR 94 157 29.

  Other fences use posts which, due to their particular construction, present problems linked to humidity in particular, such as oxidations due to water retention or to a

poor evacuation thereof.

  Furthermore, the installation of the panels is often tedious and requires a certain practice to be effective, which makes the laying operation longer for unaccustomed people, and therefore more expensive. It can also be noted that most of the fences currently installed are generally vulnerable and can be

  disassembled or easily damaged by external persons.

  Also, the present invention aims to solve the aforementioned drawbacks using simple, reliable solid and inexpensive means. Its objective is to present a solid fence which is easy and quick to set up and which is capable of withstanding sufficient external damage and humidity problems. Thus, the fence of the invention has support posts and mesh panels capable of being assembled and locked together without the aid

  specific tool or complementary assembly parts.

  According to its main characteristic, the support post for fence of the invention is of the type formed by a main post body having assembly means for fixing the mesh panels which extend from the front face of the body, and is characterized in that it comprises a complementary body extension which extends along the front face of the body in front of the body and its assembly means. According to another characteristic of the support post for fence of the invention, it is characterized in that the main post body

is trapezoidal.

  According to one embodiment of the support post for fencing, the post assembly means are constituted by two fixing angles in the form of a square which extend in the extension of the

  side walls of the main body.

  According to an additional characteristic of the support post for fencing, the angles have a set of fixing lights which extend transversely along the bracket formed by

  the angle iron to cooperate with the horizontal wires of the mesh panels.

  According to another characteristic of the support post for fence of the invention, it is characterized in that the width of the extension of the complementary body is greater than the spacing of the assembly means. According to an additional characteristic of the fence support post, the main body forming an enclosure and the extension of the complementary body which forms an enclosure are interconnected and

  consist of a single profile.

  According to the preferred embodiment of the support post for fence of the invention, the profile which forms the main body and its complementary extension, also forms fixing angles which constitute the means of assembly of the post to the mesh panel. According to this embodiment, the enclosure of the main body and the enclosure of the complementary extension communicate with each other by a connecting passage formed by two longitudinal connecting walls.

of rounded shape.

  According to an additional characteristic of the support post for fencing, the extension of the complementary body comprises a front wall of rounded shape and a wall or wall portions

  flat rear (s) arranged opposite the front face of the main body.

  According to another characteristic of the support post for fence of the invention, it is characterized in that the main body and the complementary extension are connected together so that their respective enclosures communicate with each other and form

together a closed space.

  Figures 1 to 7 illustrate the preferred embodiment of the

  fence and its support post as well as variants.

  Figure I illustrates a perspective part of a fence of three

rear quarter.

  Figure 2 shows the perspective closing part of three

front quarter.

  Figure 3 illustrates in cross section the fence support post. Figure 4 shows in cross section the post and the

assembled mesh panel.

  Figure 5 illustrates in exploded perspective the assembly of the post

and the mesh panel.

  Figure 6 shows a vule similar to Figure 5 a

  variant of the fence.

  Figure 7 illustrates in cross section an alternative embodiment

of the support post.

  According to the invention, the fence, bearing the general reference (1), is formed by a set of support posts (2) intended to be fixed to the ground and between which extend mesh panels (3), as shown Figure 1. The support posts (2) and the lateral edges (3a, 3b) of the mesh panels (3) have complementary assembly means (MAC) intended to cooperate together so as to allow the fixing of the mesh panel (3 ) to the support post (2) such

as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.

  According to the preferred embodiment of the fence (1), the posts (2) are constituted by a main post body or main core (4) and by an extension of a complementary body (5) connected to the main body (4). The posts (2) advantageously have a general plane of symmetry (P) vertical transversely crossing the body and its extension. The main post body (4) extends longitudinally vertically and has an advantageously trapezoidal polygonal profile; it carries on its front face (6) the assembly means (MAC) intended to allow positioning and

  fixing the mesh panels (3) to the post (2).

  According to the preferred embodiment of the post (2) and as shown in Figure 3, the main body (4) defines an enclosure (4a) whose overall shape in a transverse plane is advantageously trapezoidal. It consists of a peripheral (7) or profiled wall which forms a rear wall (10) corresponding to the small base of the trapezoid, two side walls (la, lib) and a front wall (6) substantially corresponding to the large base of the trapezium, said wall or front face (6) itself being formed by two wall portions (6a, 6b). The complementary body extension (5) extends from the main body (4) along the front face (6, 6a, 6b) of the body (4) and is connected to the front wall portions (6a, 6b) which form the front face and which carry the assembly means. It goes without saying that the transverse profile of the enclosure (4a) of the main body could be of a slightly different shape such as rectangular or other, without however leaving the

protective field of the invention.

  The complementary body extension (5) extends vertically along the front face of the main body (4) to form an enclosure (5a) located at the front of said body and its assembly means. It is connected to the main body (4) by at least one wall

connection (8).

  According to the preferred embodiment of the post (2) of the fence (1) of the invention and as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the post body (4) and the complementary extension (5) are made by the same streamlined. The main (4a) and complementary (5a) enclosures communicate with each other by a connecting passage (8a) located between two connecting walls (8b, 8c) which connect the front wall portions (6a, 6b) of the main body (4 ) to the rear wall portions (5b, 5c) of the

extension (5).

  According to the illustrated embodiment of the post (2), the main body (4) of trapezoidal shape and the extension of the complementary body (5) have substantially rounded angles to avoid the projecting edges which may be dangerous. The complementary or secondary body (5) advantageously has a rounded shape for its front face (5d), while its face or its rear wall portions (5b, 5c) have a substantially flat surface.

  arranged opposite the front face (6) of the main body (4).

  The main body (4) of the post (2) advantageously carries the assembly means (MAC) which allow the fixing and positioning of the mesh panels (3). These assembly means consist of two assembly angles (9a, 9b) which extend from the front face (6) of the main body (4) towards the body extension (5) in the space (12) that separates them. They extend substantially orthogonally to the front wall portions (6a, 6b) which form the front face (6) of the body to curl inward at their end in

  direction of the connecting passage (8a).

  According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, these angles (9a, 9b) are advantageously produced by the single section (7) which forms the entire post and are thus formed by two adjoining walls (13, 14) of the section which form a square directed towards the connecting passage (8a). These angles include notches or fixing lights (15) regularly distributed longitudinally to allow the installation of a mesh panel (3) by positioning its horizontal wires (30) in the respective notches and by positioning its vertical end wire ( 35) in the U-shaped housing located in the space (12) and formed by the angle iron and the front wall portion (6a,

  6b) of the body, as shown in Figure 5.

  According to the illustrated embodiment, the walls (13) of the angles (9a, 9b) are advantageously located in the extension of the side walls (11a, llb) of the main body (4), the front wall portions (6a, 6b) extending orthogonally to said side walls and thus being inclined relative to the transverse axis (XX) disposed orthogonal to the plane of symmetry (P) of the post (2). The angle of inclination (c) of the front wall portions relative to the transverse axis is between 0 and 45 and is advantageously chosen to be substantially equal to 10 or 15. The connecting walls (8b, 8c) which connect the main body (4) to the extension of the complementary body (5) have a curved profile

  in the transverse plane, as shown in Figure f.

  It is important to note, as shown in the transverse profile of the post illustrated in FIG. 3, that the profile forms a closed contour and makes it possible to produce the main body (4), the fixing angles (9a, 9b) the connection passage ( 8a) and the body extension (5) in a single piece using the same profile (7). According to the preferred embodiment, the width (LI) of the extension of the complementary body (5) is greater than the spacing (L2) of the fixing angles (9a, 9b). Therefore, the assembly means are retracted when the user looks at the

pole from the front.

  According to the preferred embodiment of the support posts, the width (L3) of the fixing slots (15) is greater than the diameter (Dl) of the horizontal wire portions (30): it is advantageously between -7 between 5.5 mm and 7 mm to allow the use of mesh panels

  (3) made with 4 mm or 5 mrm wire, for example.

  According to the preferred embodiment of the fence (1) the complementary assembly means (MAC) are arranged so that, when the grid panel (3) is put in place between two support posts (2), the tension exerted by them on the mesh panels (3) is exerted only on horizontal structural wires (30). To do this, portions of hooking wire of the mesh panels (3) are constituted by curved extensions (40) of horizontal wires (30) called hooking elbows and which extend up or down, as shown in Figure 6. It goes without saying that the hooking elbows can be arranged on all the horizontal structural wires of the mesh panel or on only part of them. It is important to note that the portions of wires or hooking elbows (40) are advantageously extensions of the structural wires (30) produced with the same wire and not portions of vertical wires assembled to the wires.

structural by welding.

  The thickness (e) of the profile is advantageously less than 2 mm and can be chosen to be equal to 1.2 mm and the material used can be galvanized sheet or stainless sheet, for example. The support post (2) is produced using a single sheet (7) folded and curved to take the desired shape before being assembled to itself along a longitudinal edge of the post (2). The assembly is advantageously carried out by welding or by gluing along the front face (Sd) of the extension of

body, for example.

  According to an alternative embodiment illustrated in Figure 7, it can be noted that the angles (9a, 9b) extend orthogonally to the front wall portions (6a, 6b) which are arranged in the extension of one another along from the transverse axis (XX) orthogonal to the plane of symmetry (P). It can also be noted that in this alternative embodiment, the rear wall portions (5b, 5c) of the extension of

  bodies (5) have a rounded shape.

  Furthermore, it can be noted that the support posts (2) are intended to be closed at their upper end in a hermetic manner by a closure cover (not shown) in order to avoid moisture problems in the unitary enclosure (4a, 5a , 8a) located inside the post. On reading the above, one will understand the various interests of the invention compared to the previous posts. Thus, with the post of the invention, the installation of the mesh is done quickly and easily, and without accessories and without tools. Furthermore, the post of the invention is optimized in its forms and in its dimensions, and is particularly aesthetic. It will be noted that the latter is rigid and undeformable, in particular in the area of attachment of the mesh, thanks to the double thickness of sheet. Note also that a possible impact on the grid on the outside cannot cause it to drop out. Also add that the fixing lights do not open inside the closed profile of the post, which gives it the seal necessary for its good conservation. Many other advantages not described result from the structure chosen. Of course, the invention is not limited to the embodiments described and shown by way of examples, but it includes

  also all technical equivalents and their combinations.

Claims (10)

  1. Support post (2) for fence (1) of the type formed by a main post body (4) having assembly means (MAC, 9a, 9b) for fixing the mesh panels (3) which extend from the front face (6, 6a, 6b) of the body (4), characterized in that it comprises a complementary body extension (5) which extends along the front face (6) of the body (4) in front of the body (4) and its means of assembly (9a, 9b).   2. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the main post body (4) is of trapezoidal shape. 3. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that the assembly means (MAC) of the post (2) are constituted by two fixing angles (9a, 9b) in the form of bracket which extend in the extension of the side walls (11a, 11b) of the body main (4).   4. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to claim 3, characterized in that the angles (9a, 9b) have a set of fixing lights (14) which extend transversely along the bracket formed by the angle iron (9a, 9b) to cooperate with the wires   horizontal (30) of the mesh panels (3).   5. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to any one of   previous claims, characterized in that the width (L1) of the   additional body extension (5) is greater than the spacing   (L2) assembly means (9a, 9b).   6. sApport post (2) for fence (1) according to any one of   previous claims, characterized in that the main body (4)   forming an enclosure (4a) and the extension of complementary body (5) which forms an enclosure (5a) are interconnected and are constituted by a single profile (7).   O 7. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to claim 6, characterized in that the profile (7) which forms the main body (4) and its complementary extension (5), also forms fixing angles (9a , 9b) which constitute the means for assembling the post (2) to the mesh panel (3). 8. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the enclosure (4a) of the main body (4) and the enclosure (5a) of the complementary extension (5) communicate between them by a connecting passage (8a) formed by two walls   longitudinal connection (8b, 8c) of rounded shape.   9. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to any one of   previous claims, characterized in that the extension of   complementary body (5) comprises a front wall (5d) of rounded shape and a flat wall or portions of rear wall (5b, 5c)   arranged opposite the front face (6, 6a, 6b) of the main body.   10. Support post (2) for fence (1) according to any one   of the preceding claims, characterized in that the main body   (4) and the complementary extension (5) are connected together so that their respective enclosures (4a, 5a) communicate between   them and together form a closed space.