Patent · US Expired

Modular barrier

US4898365A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 20, 1987
Grant dateFeb 6, 1990
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Expiry dateAug 20, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF16B2200/10
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A modular barrier comprising a pair of vertical posts, a pair of parallel rails and a holding assembly for retaining the ends of the rails inside the posts. Each of the posts has a facing vertical wall with the vertical wall having an upper window and a lower window. An upper tongue extends upwardly into the upper window while a dependent lower tongue extends into the lower window. Each of the rails has a first end disposed inside one of the posts and a second end disposed inside the other post. The posts have facing inside walls and each of the walls has an indentation adjacent the rails receiving a corresponding one of the tongues. The holding assembly is positioned entirely within a post and functions to push the rails towards each other so that the tongues are held in their corresponding indentations to maintain the posts and rails assembled.

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