Patent ID: 7686283

Claim:
An area-fencing system, the area-fencing system for preventing keyless ingress into, and enabling keyless egress from, an area, the area-fencing system comprising, in combination: a fence, the fence for bounding a target area, the fence having a vertical fence orientation and a gateway, the vertically oriented fence comprising a superior fence portion and an inferior fence portion, the superior and inferior fence portions being laterally opposed and respectively collinear at the gateway, the fence being laterally opposed and coplanar at the gateway; a gate assembly, the gate assembly being received in the gateway and comprising a gate frame, a gate, and fence-frame attachment means, the fence-frame attachment means for attaching the fence to the gate frame, the gate frame comprising laterally-opposed frame members, a superior frame member, and an inferior frame member, the frame members defining a planar gate-receiving area, the gate comprising laterally-opposed gate portions, a superior gate portion, an inferior gate portion, keyed-entry means, push-operable exit means, and gate-frame attachment means, the gate-frame attachment means for operably attaching the gate to the gate frame, the gate portions defining a planar frame-engaging area, the gate-receiving area being greater in magnitude than the frame-engaging area, the superior and inferior frame members connecting the laterally-opposed frame members intermediate the length thereof thus forming a ladder-shaped gate frame, the laterally-opposed frame members having superior member ends and inferior member ends, the inferior member ends for anchoring the gate frame in subterranean ground, the inferior frame member being concealable by ground matter and for maintaining the gate-receiving area during ground deformations, the keyed-entry means for preventing keyless ingress into the target area, the push-operable exit means for enabling gate-pushed egress from the target area.