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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1986
Donald R Frush, Warsaw, IN (US);
CTB, Inc., Milford, IN (US);
Abstract
A releasable rail locking device for a tubular fence comprises first and second substantially identical elongate flexible legs joined at a predetermined angle to define a generally V-shaped flexibe bow-like portion elastically deformable to a predetermined range of angles about this predetermined angle. The legs terminate in respective oppositely oriented outwardly extending gripping portions for releasably grippingly engaging a wall of a tubular fence rail member about aligned through apertures therein. Each of the gripping portions comprises a body portion extending from the associated leg and an enlarged head portion extending from the body portion to define a shoulder therewith. Both the head portion and body portions as well as the bow-like portion are sized to extend the heads and bodies through the through apertures in the tubular fence rail wall while maintaining the bow-like portion in a partially compressed condition, at an angle somewhat less than the predetermined angle. Each head portion defines a cam lead-in surface for facilitating snapping engagement thereof with the tubular fence rail wall about the apertures upon inward flexing and subsequent release of the bow-like portion.