Privacy wall

摘要

A wall structure, which may be in the form of a prefabricated unit, provides privacy for an enclosure while also enabling good ventilation. It comprises a planar array of angularly oriented, parallel slats that overlap one another as viewed in a direction generally normal to the plane. The slats are attached to support structure by brackets that are identical to one another.

主权项

1. An enclosure comprised of a multiplicity of walls, at least one of said walls being constructed for screening and ventilating the interior of said enclosure; said at least one wall being generally planar and comprised of a multiplicity of slats, a plurality of substantially rectilinear support beams spaced laterally from one another, a multiplicity of identical slat-mounting brackets, and means for fastening said slats to said brackets and said brackets to said beams; each of said slat-mounting brackets being comprised of a generally planar panel portion of parallelogrammic configuration and having first and second edges that form supplementary acute and obtuse angles, respectively, with a common third edge to which said first and second edges are each adjacent, said each bracket having at least one flange element, extending perpendicular to said panel portion along each of said first, second, and third edges thereof; first and second rows of said brackets being fastened by said means for fastening, coacting with said at least one flange element along said third edges of said brackets, to first and second ones of said support beams, respectively, with said panel portions of said first row of said brackets lying substantially in a first common plane with said first support beam and with said panel portions of said second row of brackets lying substantially in a second common plane with said second support beam, each of said brackets on said first beam being aligned laterally with a said bracket on said second beam to provide a multiplicity of pairs of brackets spaced laterally from one another, each of said bracket pairs being fastened, by said fastening means coacting with said at least one flange element along said first and second edges of said brackets, to two transversely adjacent, parallel ones of said slats disposed against said at least one flange element along said first and second edges of said brackets, said slats thereby being affixed in mutually parallel assembly and extending transversely to rectilinear axes of said support beams and with an interior angle between said slats and said support beams having the value of said acute angle, said slats overlapping one another as viewed in a direction normal to the plane of said one wall.