US1238119A - Supporting electric. - Google Patents

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R. D. EDMUNDS. SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATIQN'FILED MAY 9. \911.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

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SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Application filed May 9, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH D. EDMUNDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lomax, in the county of Henderson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in supporting devices and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character especially designed and adapted for use in connection with pulling implements preferably of the type employed for stretching wire, wire fences or the like; and it is an object of the invention to provide a supporting device of this general character having novel and improved means whereby it may be readily and conveniently applied in operative position.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device including a. member with which a pulling implement is adapted to be engaged together with means whereby the position of said member may be varied in order to meet the different requirements of practice.

Furthermore it is an object of the invention to provide a device of this general character adapted to coact with a fixed or stationary member and including novel and improved means whereby the device is effectively held against turning or swinging movement relative to said fixed or stationtageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a supporting device constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention; and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.

Serial No. 167,554.

Fig. 2 is a view in top plan of the device as herein disclosed.

As herein embodied, my improved device comprises two members A and B and each of said members consists of two elongated strips 1 of material arranged in predetermined spaced relation and having rotatably supported therebetween a series of longitudinally spaced rollers 2. The inner or free ends of the strips 1 of each of the members A and B are provided with oppositely directed extensions 3 disposed on predetermined curvatures and which extensions 3 are adapted to engage with a post P or other fixed or stationary support.

The outer end portions of the strips 1 of each of the members A and B are arranged in divergence, as indicated at A, and are pivotally engaged with an end portion of the elongated bar 5 substantially perpendicularly related to the members A and B.

After the extensions 3 have been properly engaged with a post P or the like the chain 6 or other flexible connection anchored to the end portion of the bar 5 remote from the members A and B is suitably engaged with a second post P or other fixed or stationary member, and whereby it will be at once selfevident that the members A and B will be held against swinging or turning movement about the post or other support P when strain is imposed upon the members A and B.

Coacting with the rollers 2 is a cable 7 or other flexible member and the free end portions of the cable 7 are adapted to be suitably secured to the post or other support. As herein embodied, the extensions 3. are provided with suitable openings 8 through which the end portions of the cable are directed.

The intermediate portion of the cable 7 coacts with the pulley 9 carried by a block 10 and which block 10 is provided with a swiveled hook member 11 or its equivalent and which is adapted to be suitably engaged with a stretcher of any ordinary or preferred type but preferably of a type adapted to be employed in connection with wire fences.

It is thought to be self-evident that the position of the block 10 may be vertically adjusted in accordance with the rollers 2 with which the cable 7 may coact. When the cable 7 is engaged with the outer rollers 2, as indicated by full lines in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, the block 10 is suitably positioned to stretch a fence of medium height. F or a lower fence the cable 7 will be caused to engage only the inner roller 2 of the member B as indicated by dotted lines. For a higher fence the cable will engage the outer roller 2 of the member B and only the inner roller 2 of the member A. It will also be self-evident that additional vertical ad'- justments of the block 10-may be; effected by the combinations afforded by the intermediate rollers 2 of the members A andB.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that a supporting device constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limitingmyself tothe precise arrangement and formation-of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice, except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim;

1. A device of the character described comprising two elongated members in divergent relation, longitudinally Spaced rollers carried by each of the members, a cable coacting with the rollers, and, an engaging member coacting with the portion of the cable intermediate the members.

:2. A device of the character described comprising an elongated bar, elongated members pivotally engaged with said bar, longitudinally spaced rollers carried by each of the members, a cable coacting with said rollers, an engaging member coacting with the portion of the cable intermediate the members, and an attaching member'carried by the bar.

3. A device of the character described comprising an elongated bar,elongated members pivotally. engaged with said bar, longitudinally spaced rollers carried by each of the members, a cable coacting with said rollers, an engaging member coacting with the portion of the cable intermediate the members, and an attaching member carried by the bar, the end portions of the members remote from the bar being provided with lateralextensions.

4. A device of the character described comprising an elongated bar, elongated members pivotally engaged with said bar, longitudinally spaced rollers carried by each of the members, a cable coacting with said rollers, an engaging member coacting with the portion of the cable intermediate the members, and an attaching member carried by the bar, the portions of the members engaged with the bar being in divergence.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RALPH D. EDMUNDS. l Witnesses B. L. BYLER, Bnssm L. EDMUNDs.

Copies of. this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, R0.

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