US11315A

US11315A - Matthew walker

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Publication number: US11315A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1854-07-11
Anticipated expiration: 1871-07-11

Description

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1ron Fence.

No. 11,315. Patented. July 11,1854.

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MATTHEW WALKER, SR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO M. WALKER & SONS.

IRON PICKET-FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,315, dated July 11, 1854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW WALKER,

Sr., of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Iron Fences, and that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the principle or character which distinguishes it from allother things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the fence. Fig. 2 is a top view of the fence and a section of the posts.

My improvement in the construction of iron fences consists in the employment of a double wrought iron rail prepared in a certain way hereinafter described so as to embrace the posts or banisters and make a firm light and very cheap fenoean'd at the same time a fence of very neat appearance.

I am aware that it has been proposed to make an iron fence bysecuring the posts or banisters between two side rails these rails being braced apart by studs cast on their inner surfaces, but such a fence and the mode of its construction differ essentially from mine and is so clumsy and unsightly as to forbid its use. The two parts or bars a, a, forming my rails are of wrought iron and are rolled into their present form, the

bends or corrugations b, b, 6, being made by suitable dies so as to embrace and fit the posts or banisters (Z, (Z, and allow these parts to come fairly together between the posts or banisters. The holes to receive the rivets e e e for securing these parts firmly The mode herein set forth of making wrought iron fences the same consisting in a compound rail composed of two bars of wrought iron corrugated by dies: so that the bars shall embrace the posts or banisters at the proper intervals and between the same have theirrinner surfaces in contact so as to be riveted up close and make a firmand neat fence. MATTHEW WALKER, SEN. lVitnesses: i

T. CAMPBELL,

E. R. BRO N.