Chicken wire

Abstract: A method of installing facing bricks on the surface of an outer building wall including, as a first step, the attachment to the wall of chicken wire provided with parallel ridge configurations. These configurations are positioned to form horizontal barriers in the chicken wire which are spaced far enough apart to receive the facing bricks between them. The bricks are buttered on one side with mortar, then pressed into position between the barriers with their lower edges adjacent the lower of the two flanking barriers. When the mortar sets, grout is applied to the spaces between the bricks to embed the ridge configurations in the chicken wire. The result is a veneered wall having the bricks fastened to the wall surface with mortar and integrated into a cohesive veneer skin, along with the mortar, chicken wire and grout. Thus, if one or more of the bricks breaks away from the wall through loss of the mortar bond between the bricks and the wall, the chicken wire will hold them in position and prevent them from falling and harming or damaging persons or property below.

Abstract: Studies on the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania have shown that several types of wire or plastic tubes can be erected around tree seedlings to protect them from deer browsing. The two most promising devices are a 4- to 6-inch diameter plastic tube with small mesh and a 12-inch diameter tube constructed of chicken wire. Both types need to be at least 5 feet tall to provide adequate protection in areas of heavy browsing pressure. The plastic protectors are more expensive than those made of wire, but are somewhat quicker to fabricate, and they offer the added advantage of protection against rodents.

Abstract: An experimental study on the behavior of a prototype roofing element with welded wire mesh of large openings, than usually employed in ferrocement, was performed mainly to achieve economy. Chicken wire mesh and varying percentage of GI fibers have been used as reinforcement. The shape and size of the precast roofing element is chosen to satisfy the general requirements of strength and stiffness, lightness and economy, ease of handling and erection, proper seating and leak proof joints

Abstract: A chicken wire border fence comprising a length of chicken wire of relatively narrow width having welded thereto a series of separate heavier gauge cross pieces of wire having end portions thereof extending outwardly from one edge of the length of chicken wire in a reversed closed loop relationship, the other ends being open-ended and extending out from the opposite edge of the length of chicken wire in points for engaging the ground, the entire fence being capable of being rolled up for shipping and storing.