Patent ID: 8646491

Claim:
A protective double-twist wire net with hexagonal meshes comprising: an array of elongate and longitudinally-extending elements comprising wires and metal cables arranged in side-by-side relation with one another and forming hexagonal meshes, each of said elements extending longitudinally in a longitudinal direction, adjacent pairs of said elements being intertwined with one another at intertwining regions defined by portions of the respective said elements which are twisted around one another, each said intertwining region consisting only of a pair of said elements intertwined with one another, said pair of said elements consisting of either two of said wires or one of said wires and one of said metal cables, each said metal cable interposed in said array being located between a twosome of said wires and being intertwined with a first one of said twosome of said wires at at least two spaced intertwining regions and with a second one of said twosome of said wires at at least one of said intertwining regions, said at least one of said intertwining regions being located between said at least two spaced intertwining regions, wherein said portions of the respective said elements which define said intertwining regions are doubly-twisted around one another, and wherein one of said metal cables defines three adjacent sides of one of said hexagonal meshes, wherein the wires and the metal cables have different structures.