Hooking device for safety barriers

Claim 1

A plurality of barrier sections connectable demountably for forming in assembly a dismantable safety barrier, each barrier section having a frame with upstanding opposite end members, horizontal members connected to the end members to define the frame, and members in the frame for forming a fence with the individual safety barrier sections, feet on said frame of each barrier section to maintain the frame generally stably upstanding, the improvement comprising same means on each barrier section for demountably connecting the barrier sections in a dismantable assembly defining a safety barrier, said same connecting means comprising two hooks on only each same upstanding end member of each frame of the corresponding barrier section, said two hooks being disposed fixed spaced vertically on the same corresponding upstanding end member of each frame, each of said two hooks of each barrier section having a part extending generally horizontally away from said same end member of the individual frame and generally parallel with a corresponding side of the frame, said part of one of the hooks being disposed extending from one side of the frame and said part of the other hook extending away from the other side of the frame, each of said two hooks of each barrier section having a free end reversely bent in an individual loop bent toward the opposite side of the corresponding frame from the side from which the hook extends so that the loops of the two hooks are disposed looped toward each other, each individual loop of each hook of each barrier section being open toward said same end member of the corresponding frame for removably receiving in each hook loop an end member of the opposite end of a frame of one of said plurality of barrier sections for connecting the barrier sections without having to lift the sections relatively for effecting a connection of the barrier sections, and the opposite end member of said one of said plurality of barrier sections is held by the loops of the two hooks in which it is received from moving laterally and held from unintentionally being moved away from the barrier section which it is hooked.