Fence or like construction

Claim 1

FOR USE IN THE ERECTION OF A FENCE OR THE LIKE, A PREFORMED ASSEMBLAGE COMPRISING: BASE MEANS OF RELATIVELY LIGHT-WEIGHT, EASILY MANUALLY HANDLED MATERIAL ADAPTED TO BE PLACED UPON THE GROUND IN A CONTINUOUS ELONGATED PATTERN AND HAVING THEREIN A PLURALITY OF INDICIA ARRANGED IN FIRST AND SECOND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL ROWS, THE INDICIA IN EACH ROW BEING EQUALLY SPACED APART LENGTHWISE OF THE BASE MEANS AND ARRANGED SO THAT ANY TWO NEIGHBORING INDICIA IN ONE ROW AND TWO DIRECTLY OPPOSITE NEIGHBORING INDICIA IN THE OTHER ROW LIE RESPECTIVELY AT THE CORNERS OF SUBSTANTIALLY A PARALLELOGRAM; A PLURALITY OF RODS INITIALLY SEPARATE FROM AND INSERTED RESPECTIVELY THROUGH SELECTED INDICIA IN BOTH ROWS AND INTO THE GROUND SUCH AS TO RISE THEREFROM IN REGULAR ZIG-ZAG FASHION THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF SAID BASE MEANS; AND A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTAL ROWS OF MEMBERS CARRIED BY THE RODS IN ALTERNATED STACKED FASHION, EACH MEMBER HAVING THEREIN A PAIR OF APERTURES SPACED APART ON THE ORDER OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN A ROD IN ONE ROW AND THE NEXT NEIGHBORING ROD IN THE OTHER ROW, EACH MEMBER OF ONE ROW BEING RECEIVED BY A PAIR OF SUCH NEIGHBORING RODS AND EACH MEMBER IN THE ROW NEXT ABOVE SAID ONE ROW RESTING ON A MEMBER BELOW IT AND RECEIVED BY ONE OF THE RODS OF SAID FIRST-MENTIONED PAIR AND A NEXT ADJACENT ROD OTHER THAN IN SAID FIRST-MENTIONED PAIR.