US397110A - cleaveland - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J.B.0LBAVE LAND.

FENCE Patented Feb-5, 1889.

ATTORNEY n PETERS. ynwm w. Washington. D. c

UNTTED STATES PATENT TEicE.

J OHh B. CLEAVELAND, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 397,110, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed August 25, 1888. Serial No. 283,800. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. CLEAVELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, have in-' vented new and useful Improvements in Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wire fences in which the end and corner posts carrying the wire stretchers or windlasses are embedded in the ground and firmly held in an upright position by means of a guy and distance rod and an improved brace-rod of novel construction, hereinafter more fully described.

The object of my invention is to provide, first, .a rigid and stable end or corner post, to which the stretchers are secured, that will resist the tensile strain of fence-wires when drawn taut without causing any appreciable variation from its fixed vertical position, and, second, a means of constructing rapidly a cheap, durable, and substantial fence, as hereinafter more fully described.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of fence; Fig. 2, a plan view of the end post and anchor, showing the manner of securing the guy. Fig. 3 is a section of intermediate posts, showing manner of securing wire-guides thereto. Fig. 4. is a plan of Windlass. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation along spindle of Windlass. Fig. 6 is a plan of guy and distance rod clip; and Fig. 7 a detail of return-buckle guy.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

XV designates the wire-stretcher, formed of a continuous strip of spring-steel or other resilient metal looped to receive and clamp'end post, P, and is provided with two arms, a and a, through which holes are drilled to receive Windlass-spindle s and form a partial bearing therefor. The spindle 5, formed like an ordinary bolt having a square head, 71, loosely fitting into socket sh, integral with ratchet-plate R, is threaded at its opposite end to receive nut n, is provided with a slotted or drilled hole, sw, to receive fence-wire of either round or ribbon section, and has formed at its threaded end a flat portion, to which the nutwasher me is loosely fitted to prevent spindlenut from unscrewing when spindle is being revolved.

R is a ratchet, having ratchet-teeth r meshing with and corresponding in shape to those of plate R, and is provided with the lips Z, embracing clip, thus holding plate R in a fixed position, which wire-stretcher is and may be of the construction described in Patent No. 375,127, heretofore granted to me.

p designates intermediate posts, having secured thereto the wire-guide staples Gs, said guidestaples being formed from a continuous piece of wire bent in the shape of an irregular loop'to form a shoulder to abut against post, and having a long and a short leg or prong, one projecting partially into post, and the other protruding through an amount necessary to be clinched or bent over,'as in th manner shown in Fig. 3. 1

D designates the distance rod or pipe, secured at its ends preferably to dowels or teats tand t of clamp-rings O and C, secured to posts by keys is and k, or other suitable devices, said clip 0' being provided with two arms, Ga. and Go, through which holes are drilled to receive guy-bolts Gb, around which guy G is looped, which, passing around corner or end post, P, near its base and through eye e of anchor-arm 'A, carrying blade B, is looped to base of said post P at a point just above base-socket, thus effectually resisting the tendency of post to rise in consequence of the tension of fence-wires, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The feet or bases of guy-posts p consist of a socket, ps, provided with three or more ribs (preferably three) of irregular profile, tapering to a point, and having formed thereon and integral therewith the flange F at or near its top. This manner of constructing the base is of great importance in fence construction. lVhen the earth is affected by eX- cessive rain or frost, the posts have a great tendency to either rise or sink an amount proportionate to the tension of the wires and guy, thus causing fence to getout of line. To obviate this evil, I construct the postbases in the manner described, as I have to end of guy G.

found by experience that this shape of base has a tendency to keep its true fixed position, and does not readily sink into the earth.

\Vhen lining up fence, it is desirable that end post be free to sink an amount proportionate to the strain applied to it through guy. To accomplish this end, I omit flange on this post, as it offers too great a resistance to the earth. Flanges may be omitted in all other intermediate post-bases except post p. The wire brace 20 consists of a core or rod, 1), around which coiled tightly the notched or serrated wire or strip of metal (preferably ribbon wire) be, and is bent over and looped around top, and also, if desired, to bottom fence-wires, thus securing outer coil to core or red Z1. 'hen it is not desirable to loop brace-coil around bottom wires, I simply bend it over end of core, thus securing coil and brace firmly together. The intermediate wires are secured to brace by means of wires fw, looped around intermediate wires, as shown. It will be seen that a brace constructed in this manner can be secured to fence-wires fa: at any desirable and suitable position along them, and when once made fast cannot be moved out of position, either vertically or along wires, in consequence of the securing-loops being drawn tightly into notches of serrated wires and uneven or serrated profile of brace. The posts being placed in posit-ion, the wires are secured at their ends, one end to an end post in any suitable manner, and the other to the windlass or stretcher secured to opposite end post. The guy is now secured to intermediate or second post-cli p and anchor,a nd as wires fw are stretched to their normal tension the guy twisted or drawn up an amount equal in resistance to the tension applied to post P. The load applied to this post is transmitted through distance-rod D The guy G, being secured to base of post and passing through eye of anchor, tends to hold posts parallel and in their fixed vertical position. The anchor may be )laced in an 1 )osition either betwemi corner or end post and first intermediate post, as shown in dotted lines. In such cases I omit the loop over said post and secure guy to anchor only.

The guy is made, preferably, of a number of wires of suitable thickness, formin a strand twisted and secured in the manner hereinbefore described. A single wire, cable, or even chain, of suitable strength, may be used for this purpose. To apply this method of guy, a spindle in construction somewhat similar to that illustrated by Fig. 6 may be used, the ratchet-teeth of which are shaped as shown, the teeth of spindle-head meshing into teeth of similar form integral with clip. Solid brace-rods, Fig. 7, threaded right and left and connected together by a return-buckle secured at top end to clip C and at bottom end to anchor or anchor-wire at a point inside posts P, at which its ends are twisted togcther, may also be used without departing from the spirit of my invention. 'iy turning or screwing buckle the tension of guy can be increased at will. The anchor consists of an arm, A, and a blade, I loosely inserted therein at an acute angle. Said arm A is of a concave shapefwith its concave surface turned. toward blade. I construct anchor in this way, so that when a very great pressure is applied to eye e through guy it will tend to sink or still farther embed itself into the earth. It is obvious, however, that the arm A, and blade might be cast or formed integral. The clips 0 and (1, inst cad of being secured to posts by means of keys 7c and 7.1, may also be cast, split through a plane passing vertically through center dowels. Thus when distance-rod D is forced over them it causes said clips to grip or clamp posts.

I do not desire to broadly claim herein a wire and metal tube fence conuin'ising the posts, the tubes 1), the wires fit, and the clips C 0, having the dowels or teats t t to enter the ends of and support the tubes D, as shown, as this will form the sul)jcetanatter of a separate application.

Having thus fully deseribei'l the cmistruetion and arrangement of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fence, the combination, with the post, of an anchor and a guy secured at a point near the summit of the post, said guy passing aro nd the end of the post and through an eye in the anchor and looped or swan-ed to the base of said post, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ii. In a fence, the coinbinatiiim, with the posts I and p and clips C, secured thereto, of the distance-rod D, engaging said clips, guy G, secured to the clip 0', passing around the base of post P,'throngh the eye of anchor, and seemed to said post at its base, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a fence, the combination, with. the posts I and p and clips C and C, secured thereto, of the distance-rod D, secured. to said clips, an anchor, the latter clip with a wirewinding spindle, and a guy-rod, which, socured to the base of the post P and passing through the eye of the anchor, is also secured to the winding-spindle working in arms A and A, integral with clip (1', sul stantially as and for the nn-pose dcscribml.

-i-. In a fence, a guide-staple, (is, bent to form a shoulder, and having one of its legs penetratiiu partially through posts and the other entirely through, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a fence, the post l,e|ip secured thereto, which clip is eugagct'l by one end of the rod 1), red 1), clip (.l, secured to the post I and. engaged by the other end of the rod D, and the arms carrying the windlass-spindie or bolt 7.), around which the flexible guy is wound, a flexible guy and its anchor, all in combination, substantially as and for the pur- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my pose set forth. hand in the presence of two subscribing Wit- 6. In a fence, the combination of a corner nesscs.

or end post, an intermediate post, and a dis- 5 tance-rod secured to said posts at or near JOHN B. CLEAVELAND.

their summits, with a guy secured to said intermediate post at or near distance-rod at its Vit-nesses: top end and anchored to ground at its bot- T. R. BELL, tom end, substantially as and for the purpose CHAS. F. CLEAVELAND. 10 described.

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