Safety enclosure shield panel support system

• US 6,622,434 B1
• Filed: 05/24/2000
• Issued: 09/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Allied Plastics Supply, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Wayne Kenneth Garrett
• Inventors: Garrett, Wayne Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thissell, Jennifer I.
• Application Number:
  US09/576,613
• Time in Patent Office: 1,217 Days
• Field of Search: 528/001.4, 528/001.2, 525/821, 522/047, 522/045.95, 524/751, 524/76, 527/62, 527/64, 527/66, 527/72, 527/75, 527/79, 522/34, 522/35, 522/41, 522/43, 522/81, 522/821, 524/59, 52/6, 522/02, 527/168, 527/170.5, 256/24, 256/25, 256/31, 256/73, 472/92, 472/94
• US Class Current: 52/6
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/10 Ice-skating or roller-skating rinks; Slopes or trails for skiing, ski-jumping or tobogganing chutes A63G21/00; ski-lifts B61B11/00; making or maintaining surfaces of snow or ice suitable for traffic or sporting purposes E01H4/00; removing snow or ice E01H5/00; production of ice or snow F25C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/12 Removable protective covers for courts, rinks, or game pitches or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 13/022 Pedestrian barriers; Barriers for channelling or controlling crowds E01F13/024, E01F13/028 take precedence; corrals E04H17/18
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 8/0017 Plate-like elements E01F8/0035 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 8/0023 Details, e.g. foundations solar cells specially adapted to be used in motorway sound barriers H02S20/21
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 17/168 using panels fitted in grooves of posts
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/006 General building constructions or finishing work for buildings, e.g. roofs, gutters, stairs or floors; Garden equipment; Sunshades or parasols

Abstract

A shield panel support, for providing a vertical side edge support for a shield panel, comprises a transparent shield panel support pillar.

Claims

1. A shield panel support for providing a vertical side edge support for a shield panel, the shield panel support being connected to and supported on a support system, and wherein the shield panel support comprises a transparent shield panel support pillar, the support pillar being provided with a pair of channelled opposite edges, each for receiving a vertical edge of a shield panel being supported by the panel support, wherein the support system is an ice hockey dasher board system.

2. The shield panel support of claim 1, wherein the support pillar comprises a clear polymer.

3. The shield panel support of claim 1, the pillar further comprising a longitudinal, integrally manufactured shaft and a vertical stiffening fin.

4. The shield panel support of claim 3, the pillar comprising:

a vertical spinal interface having two opposite sides; and

said vertical stiffening fin laterally projecting from one of said two opposite sides.

5. The shield panel support of claim 4, wherein a second side of the said two opposite sides of the shaft substantially defines a convex profile.

6. The shield panel support of claim 4, wherein the said laterally projecting, vertical, stiffening fin comprises a tangentially sloped fin having an acute angle at the top end of the pillar and a wide angle at the bottom end of the pillar.

7. The shield panel support of claim 6, wherein the said laterally projecting, vertical, stiffening fin comprises, at the upper elevation of the pillar, the said tangentially sloped fin, the said sloped fin terminating in a shoulder at a point on the shaft of the pillar between the upper and lower elevations of the pillar.

8. The shield panel support of claim 7 comprising, at the lower elevation of the pillar, a laterally projecting, vertical, secondary stiffening fin disposed substantially in parallel with the shaft of the pillar and spanning the pillar from the said shoulder to the bottom end of the pillar.

9. A shield panel support for providing a vertical side edge support for a shield panel, the shield panel support being connected to and supported on a support system, and wherein the shield panel support comprises a transparent shield panel support pillar, the support pillar being provided with a pair of channelled opposite edges, each for receiving a vertical edge of a shield panel being supported by the panel support, wherein the support system is a deck and a balcony.

10. The shield panel support of claim 9, wherein the support pillar comprises a clear polymer.

11. The shield panel support of claim 9, wherein the pillar further comprises a longitudinal, integrally manufactured shaft and a vertical stiffening fin.

12. The shield panel support of claim 11, the pillar comprising:

a vertical spinal interface having two opposite sides; and

said vertical stiffening fin laterally projecting from one of said two opposite sides.

13. The shield panel support of claim 12, wherein a second side of the said two opposite sides of the shaft substantially defines a convex profile.

14. The shield panel support of claim 12, wherein the said laterally projecting, vertical, stiffening fin comprises a tangentially sloped fin having an acute angle at the top end of the pillar and a wide angle at the bottom end of the pillar.

15. The shield panel support of claim 14, wherein the said laterally projecting, vertical, stiffening fin comprises, at the upper elevation of the pillar, the said tangentially sloped fin, the said sloped fin terminating in a shoulder at a point on the shaft of the pillar between the upper and lower elevations of the pillar.

16. The shield panel support of claim 15, comprising at the lower elevation of the pillar, a laterally projecting, vertical, secondary stiffening fin disposed substantially in parallel with the shaft of the pillar and spanning the pillar from the said shoulder to the bottom end of the pillar.

17. A shield panel support for providing a vertical side edge support for a shield panel, the shield panel support being connected to and supported on a support system, wherein the shield panel support comprises a transparent shield panel support pillar and wherein the support system is an ice hockey dasher board system.

18. The shield panel support of claim 17, wherein the support pillar comprises a clear polymer.

19. The shield panel support of claim 17, wherein the pillar further comprises a longitudinal, integrally manufactured shaft and a vertical stiffening fin.

20. The shield panel support of claim 19, the pillar comprising:

a vertical spinal interface having two opposite sides; and

said vertical stiffening fin laterally projecting from one of said two opposite sides.

21. The shield panel support of claim 20, wherein a second side of the said two opposite sides of the shaft substantially defines a convex profile.