US1101704A - Wire-stretcher. - Google Patents

Description

W. M. LOTTRIDGB.

WIRE STRBTCHER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7, 1912.

1,1 0 1,704, Patented June 30, 1914.

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WILLIAM M. LOTTRIDGE, OF HUNTSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-STRETCHER.

Application filed November 7, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. Lor'rnmon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Huntsville, in the county of Schuyler and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Wire-Stretcher, of which the'following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire stretchers, its object being to provide a simple structure of this character which utilizes a single chain as a means for connecting the device to a post or the like and for also connecting the device to the wire to be stretched.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which can be used to pull in either direction desired.

Another object is to provide a tool of this character which can be used for gripping logs and for similar purposes.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the coinbination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof with the chain removed. Fig. 3 is a side view of the chain engaging shank and its jaws. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of the forked hooks on the bar.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a bar having its ends curved beyond one side thereof to form forked hooks 2 and 3. Thus the bar outlines a yoke. Pivotally connected to the bar at a point between the hooks 2 and 3 is a shank 4- having opposed jaws 5 which are offset laterally so as to lie at opposite sides of the bar 1. The shank 4% has a socket to receive a lever 6 of wood or any other suitable material.

The parts hereinbefore described are adapted to be used in connection with a chain such as indicated at 7. When the tool is to be used for tightening a wire, one end of the chain 7 is attached to a post or other fixed structure, while the other end of the chain is secured to the wire to be drawn. The chain is then drawn taut and placed in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3(1 1914:.

Serial No. 730,065.

engagement with the two hooks 2 and 3, the intermediate portion of the chain hanging slack between the hooks as shown. One of the links of the chain is then placed in engagement with the jaws 5 of shank 4 and said shank is swung by means of handle or lever 6 so as to cause the jaws to pull upon the chain. The drawn portion of the chain will thus slip over the hook engaged thereby and after the jaws 5 have been swung a deslred distance, that portion of the chain out of engagement with the hooks of bar 1 is pressed downwardly into engagement with the adjoining hook as shown in Fig. 1. Thus the wire or other object being drawn will be held while the jaws 5 are being readjusted into engagement with another link. The foregoing operation can then be repeated. Thus a wire can be quickly tightened. Should it be desired to use the tool for turning logs or the like, a chain is placed around the log and tightened thereon in the manner hereinbefore described. The entire tool can then be used after the manner of a cant hook. Obviously the jaws can be used to draw upon either end portion of the chain.

While the device is particularly designed to be used for the purposes hereinbefore described, it has been found that it can be put to other uses, such as drawing pumps from wells, lifting heavy weights, etc.

What is claimed is 1. A. device of the class described including a bar, a forked hook extending from each end of the bar and integral therewith, said hooks being extended in substantially the same direction, a jaw pivotally connected to the bar at a point between the hooks, and a handle connected to the jaw.

2. A. device of the class described, including a bar, a forked hook at each end of the bar, said hooks being extended in substan tially the same direction from the bar and being integral with the bar, a shank pivotally connected to the bar at a point between the hooks, opposed jaws at one end of the shank, and between the hooks, and a handle at the other end of the shank.

3. A device of the class described, including a bar, a forked hook at each end of the bar, said hooks being extended in substantially the same direction from the bar and being integral wit-h the bar, a shank pivotally connected to the bar at a point between the hooks, opposed jaws at one end of the shank and between the hooks, a handle at the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as other end of the shank, and a flexible conmy oWn I have hereto afiixed my signature necting element adapted to be secured at one in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

end to the structure to be stretched and at its WILLIAM M. LOTTRIDGE. other end to a fixed structure, said element Witnesses:

having integral portions adapted to be en- J; D. WEINBERG,

gaged by the forked hooks and by the jaws. ADoLPH WEINBERG.

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

i Washington, D. G.

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