Patent ID: 6116294
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: B21F

Abstract:
A method for constructing a reliable security screen, comprising:forming a screen piece with opposite ends, that includes interwoven screen threads that are joined together at their intersections, and that includes a plurality of security threads that are woven into said screen piece and that are parallel to one another and spaced apart by many times the spacing of adjacent screen threads of said screen piece, with said security threads having security thread ends at opposite ends of said screen piece;joining pairs of said security thread ends at each of said ends of said screen piece to form a continuous strand comprising a plurality of security threads that extends in a sinuous path with said continuous strand having inner and outer opposite ends;joining an end of continuous security wire that includes at least a core portion that is electrically conductive, to said inner end of said continuous strand that comprises a plurality of security threads, and pulling said outer end of said continuous strand of security threads to pull said security wire into the positions occupied by said security threads.