US1019604A - Hanger for cement posts. - Google Patents

Description

J. S. GULLEY.

HANGER FOR CEMENT POSTS.

APPLICATION FILED our. 17, 1910.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

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HANGER FOR CEMENT POSTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

Application filed. October 17, 1910. Serial No. 587,476.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. CULLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers for Cement Posts; and I do declare the fol lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in hangers or wire attaching devices for cement fence posts.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of wire attaching device for wire fences by the use of which a wire may be carried back and forth between the posts and stretched without the use of a stretcher or other tool.

A further object of the invention is in the provision of a simple, practical and efficient fence post constructed of cement or other plastic material and having a reinforcement with which the hangers are engaged, whereby the same are properly and securely held in position in completing the post.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the! accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a fence showing the application of my improved hanger; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view thereof; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of one of the post-s showing the wire attaching hangers in side elevation therein; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view through the post; Fig. 5 is a similar view of a corner post; Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view of a modified form of post with this main hanger applied and shown partly is section; Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of one of the hangers; Fig. 8 is a similar view of another form of hanger; Fig. 9 is a similar view of one of the hangers employed in connection with the corner post of the fence.

In the embodiment illustrated a cement post 1 is shown to which this improved device is applied and which may be of any suitable shape and length and is here shown of rectangular form in cross section and slightly tapered toward its upper end. In

connection .with the posts a series of these improved wire hangers or fastening devices 2are employed and each is preferably cut or stamped from heavy sheet metal and comprises a central post engaging plate 3 having longitudinally disposed wire receiving members. These members in the first seven figures and in Fig. 9 of the drawings are shown in the form of hooks 4 and in Fig. 8 in the form of apertured lugs or cars. The post engaging plate 3 of the hangers preferably increases in width on its upper edge from the opposite ends to the center and on said plate 3 are formed laterally projecting anchoring lugs 6 which are preferably struck or cut from the metal and bent at right angles as shown.

The hangers 2 are applied to a cement post by embodying the plate 3 in the post when said post is molded These hangers are of such a length that the wire receiving hooks or lugs thereof project beyond the side of the post a sufficient distance to receive the wire of the fence.

For use in connection with corner posts, hangers 7 are provided which are similar in construction to the hangers 2 except that they are bent in right angular form to cause the wire receiving hooks or apertured lugs thereof to project from the right angular sides of the post as shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings.

Vertically disposed rectangular barsas 8 are preferably disposed centrally of the posts and are embedded therein when the post is molded and when such bars are used the anchoring lugs 6 of the hangers are engaged with the opposite sides thereof as shown in Fig. 4:, said bar thus serving to hold the hangers in alinement and to assist in firmly securing them in the post.

In the use of my improved hangers the wire is secured atone end to one of the hooks of the lowermost hanger of one post and is then brought back and forth between two of the posts and successively engaged wit-h the opposite hooks or lugs of the hangers until the last hook is reached at the upper end of the post to which the wire is secured and then cut ofl.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

In a cement post the combination with a longitudinally disposed rectangular reinforcing bar located therein, of a wire hanger comprising a plate having apertured ends and laterally disposed anchoring lugs formed from the plate intermediate its ends leaving correspondingly shaped openings in the plate, the latter being adapted to be embedded in the post with the lugs thereof ar- 15 ranged in binding contact with the opposite sides of the reinforcing bar, whereby the openings will be filled with cement in completing the post, said apertured ends of the plate projecting beyond the face of the post.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN S. CULLEY.

Witnesses IN. G. l/VnrTENs, A. C. THOMPSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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