Warning stay-guard

Claim 1

A warning stay-guard consisting of: a substantially flexible elongated tubular casing having an outer brightly-colored multicolored surface visibly discernible from a predetermined distance therefrom sufficiently to avoid a stay as an impending hazard and having a predetermined elongated length, the outer brightly-colored multicolored surface including an outer circumscribing surface having a plurality of different-colored color-imparting compositions of different contrasting colors substantially positioned thereon and heterogeneously randomly dispersed on said outer surface, the tubular casing having a longitudinal axis extending along said predetermined elongated length sufficient in length for the tubular casing to substantially cover a predominant proportion of stay-length of an axially elongated stay when mounted thereon and forming enclosed channel space extending along the longitudinal axis and having opposite open ends in flow communication with the channel space and having a substantially linear through-space slit axially extending substantially lineally along said longitudinal axis with the tubular casing having slit-forming walls shaped and positioned to retain the slit in a substantially closed state and position sufficiently such that the tubular casing is easily mountable on a stay insertable into the channel space only when the slit is flexibly intermittently opened along its longitudinal axis and such that when mounted on a stay said slit-forming walls are exertable of a retaining pressure on a mounted stay tending to deter the tubular casing from accidentally slipping from the channel space thereby preventing the tubular casing from accidentally falling-off of a mounted stay, whereby persons may reliably be visually alerted to the hazardous presence of the stay by the brightly-multicolored surface.