US1023258A

US1023258A - Stay for wire fences.

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Publication number: US1023258A
Application number: US55896710A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hugo Loewenthal
Original assignee: SUEDDEUTSCHE DRAHTINDUSTRIE AG
Current assignee: SUEDDEUTSCHE DRAHTINDUSTRIE AG
Priority date: 1910-05-02
Filing date: 1910-05-02
Publication date: 1912-04-16
Anticipated expiration: 1929-04-16

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H. LUEWENTHAL.

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APPLICATION FILED KAY 2, 1910.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912,

Jn yen for, l i a 'UNITED STA-'ras PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO LOEWENTHAL, 0F BUENCS AIRES, ARGENTINA, ASSIGNOR T0 SDDEUTSCHE DMHTINIJUSTRIE AKTIENGESEIJLSCHAFT, OF MANNHEIM-WALDHOF, GERMANY.

STAY FOR WIRE FENCES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

Application filed May 2, 1910. Serial No. 558,967.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 4HUGO LOEWENTHAL, merchant, and a resident of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stays for Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a novel stay for wire fences which offers considerable advantages over the types of fencing stays actually in use. Y

It is an essential feature of the present stay that the same consists substantially of a metallic coiled spring, ,combined with a rigid bolt or pin and 'Means arranged at the ends of the said Spring and bolt rasp, which hold the stay in a vertical position, iixing at the same time all the wires of the fencing. This arrangement permits of fixing in line the barbed wires and allows at the same time of withdrawing and replacing again the stays on the fence, without necessity of loosening the wires and twisting the same, as is actually required in connection with the notched stays which bend the wires in order to keep the same in position. By using my stays, the wires may be stretched until the desired tension is obtained without necessity of withdrawing the stays from the fencing, since, as has been stated above, the stays are secured to the wires without twisting nor deviating the same.

The accompanying drawings represent by way of example a stay in accordance with my system, the same` being shown as applied to a wire fencing.

ln said drawings, Figure l shows a stay placed in position in a wire fencing. Fig. 2 represents, in a larger scale, a broken view in perspective of the stay, partially in section. Fig. 3. shows a perspectlve, 1n plan and section on the'line A-B of Fig. 2.

In these figures, 1 indicates the coiled spring, the ends of which are inserted into the ferrules 2 and Il, on the edges of which the

semi-conical notches

4 and 5 are provided, wherein engages respectively the nppcr and lower wire (i of the wire fencing. The coil as well as the ferrules are crossed at their center by a rod or pin 7, the ends of which are respectively formed by a head S and a screw 9. On said screw 9 the ferrule 3 isscrewed as `well as a safety nut 10, for the purpose of preventing the ferrule from becoming unscrewed.

These new stays are readily placed into position.

After the wires bein duly stretched, the coiled spring is place vertically so that each of the wires enters into one of the spaces formed between the coils; in this condition the pin 7 and the upper ferrule 2 are taken and passedA through the center of the coil 1 taking care that the wires 6 get imprisoned or gripped between the pin or rod and the turns of the coil, in the manner shown in Fig. 2; after this the lower ferrule 3 and the nut 10 are screwed in place.

When placing the ferrules, care must be taken to insert the upper and lower wires into the

notches

4 and 5.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,

I declare that what I claim 'is 1. In a stay for wire fences, the combination of a resilient coil, adapted to engage strands of a fence between its eonvolutions, a rigid rod passing through the interior of the coil and adapted to lock the fence strands within the convolutions of said coil, and ferrules on said rod, into which the ends of said coil are inserted.

2. In a st-ay for wire fences, in combination a resilient coil, a rigid rod, arranged in the interior of the said coil and means for securing the said coil to the upper and lower wire of the fence, consisting of two metallic ferrules, for retaining the ends of the coil, the fer-rules having perforated bottoms and tapering notches on their edges, into which the uppermost and lowermost wires are placed, the whole being rigidly held together by means of said rod which passes through the ferrules and on to which rod a nut is screwed at its lower end.

Signed at Mannheim this 20th day of April, 1910.

HUGO LOEVVENTHAL. Witnesses:

ING. Fxurz BERG, ERNEST L. Ivns.