US110899A

US110899A - Improvement in fences

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Publication number: US110899A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-01-10
Anticipated expiration: 1888-01-10

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f C@ lllll @mit I i THOMAS o. ,ooL-I'JINs-or LITTLE nooKuooKINaoHm.

Letters raam; No. 110,899, 1aed January-'10, 1871.

', IMPRQVEMENIT'FENCES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sane.

. struction and arrangement of a fence, any panel of which may he used as a gate, 'as'will behereinafter.

fully set forth. g In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I

lwill now proceed t0 describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which represents a perspective view of my fence.. y A Each panel of my fence' is composed of boards, A A, of any suitable thickness, with posts B B at their. ends, and a'brace, G, running diagonally, as shown.- The posts B. B'need only be about ltwo or three inches-square, more or less, andextend below the lowest board A for a short dittancc. At' their upper ends are formed tenons afa-upon which are placed the pieces D D. v

G is the base piece, and G the'bearing piece of each brace, both of which are notched, as shown, and slippedonto pins b b. Oneof'these pins is at ornear the top of one panel, and the other pin at or near the base ofthe adjoinin panel.

The braces thus arranged are reversed at -every v other joint, and by means 'of their notches may be changed so that the fence can be made to stand straight up on any kind of ground. If the fence vshould be required to run up and down hill, by loosening, one end of the-brace C on each panel and pressing on the opposite corners of the panel from the way said brace runs, its lowerpen'd can be adjusted to the next bar, land `then the posts B B -will standstraight.

. Thisfence can be set on any kind of gro'nnd,smooth or. rough, and stand straight up. It can be made straight or crooked.

When crooked it needs no braces.

f 'it is desired to plow clear up to the fence all the. -braces .ca'nbe taken'olf, the ground plowed up to the fence, and then the braces put/on again.

Each or any panel o'f this fence may be usedfor a ,gate by unho'okin'g the braces G G.' at each end and raising the piece D off of one lend of the panel -intended to be used for a gate, and let' the panel turn in the piece Dat the otherend. f c.

The piece E nearpthe bottom is no hindrance, it being fastened solid at one end and temporarily or not at all at the other. f

'lhetwo braces` G G', at each joint, are pivoted together-at; their outer eudsby a pin, e, as shown.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, 'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

rlhe combination of the panels A B O, pieces DE, braces G G,'and pins b b, all constructed and arranged substantially .as shown and described, ndfor the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that l olai 1n the foregoing I have hereunto set my'hand this 24th day of September, 1870.

` THOMAS O. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

DANIEL NEWELL, ZEBULON O oLLINs.