Patent ID: 8075409

Claim:
A fencing strip disposed on a floor surface and for support of contestants engaged in a fencing match, said fencing strip having a length and width and comprising: a planar subsurface; an electrically conductive top surface having a plurality of adjacent perforations that allow for transmission of light therethrough; the electrically conductive top surface being interconnected with an electronic scoring system; the electrically conductive top surface and the planar subsurface being sandwiched together; a set of stringers including respective opposed side stringers and at least one more intermediately disposed stringer; the stringers extending in parallel to each other along the length direction of the fencing strip and for support of the sandwiched electrically conductive top surface and planar subsurface; a plurality of light sources, each being constructed and arranged to indicate each of a plurality of different scoring events, the light sources each being located beneath the conductive top surface and between adjacent stringers; and a plurality of wells with each well for retaining a corresponding light source; each said well formed at a slot in the planar subsurface that enables light from the light source to be directed up through the slot so that light from the light source projects through, and is viewed through, at least some of the plurality of adjacent perforations of the conductive top surface, the light sources being interconnected with a scoring control of the electronic scoring system.