US1269819A - Fencing. - Google Patents

Description

W. C. JOHNSON.

FENCING.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I3. I9I7.

E. IIL @9m 9 Patented June 18, 1918.

"nn enanas earner WALTER CLAUDE JOHNSON', OF COLEMANS HATCH, ENGLAND.

FENCING.

Application led April 13, 1917.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WALTER CLAUDE JOHN- soN, subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Broadstone Farm, Colemans Hatch, Sussex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fencing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved construction of continuous fencing consisting of wooden staves secured at intervals to bendable longitudinal strips, the assembled components being adapted to be rolled into a bundle convenient for transportation to the place of erection.

In fencing of such a character, as hitherto constructed, the flexible longitudinal member has consisted of double wires twisted around each other in a manner to provide loops within which the wooden staves are secured. In such a method of construction the staves and the longitudinal flexible member of the fencing are inseparable whereas, according to the present invention the staves, which constitute the chief bulk and mass of the fencing, can be provided locally and the components of the fence assembled either a situ or in the immediate neighborhood of the place of erection.

According to the present invention the flexible longitudinal component consists of a bendable strip of metal which is perfor ated at intervals for the insertion of wire fastenings or provided at intervals with notches for the engagement therewith of bendable fastening clips as represented in the accompanying drawings which show alternative details of construction.

In these drawings Figures 1 and 2 show how the staves and the longitudinal strip are secured together by wire fastening elements.

Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 show how the fastening element consists of a bendable clip, Fig. 3 being the prole of the clip as stamped from sheet metal, Fig. 4 a plan, Fig. 5 a side elevation and Fig. 6 a front elevation.

Figs. 7 8 and 9 represent a modified construction of the same type of clip.

Fig. l0 is one view of a further modification.

Fig. l1 is an elevation on a smaller scale showing portions of fencing assembled and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @Iune le, 491W..

serial No. 161,736.

erected by means of the clip fastenings illustrated in the preceeding figures.

Referring to Figs. l and 2 the longitudinal strip A is perforated by equidistant holes or cavities a, a, large enough to receive a short length of wire fastening C inserted as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

A stave B is secured to the strip A by assembling them as shown in Fig. 2 in full lines in such a manner that the wire C is bent to embrace the stave and the ends twisted around one another. By such means the staves may be spaced near together or far apart as desired.

According to Figs. 3-6 the fastening element consists of a clip piece D stamped to a cross profile from bendable metal as shown in Fig. 3 the long arms d1, perforated near their extremities, being of such a length as to embrace the stave and cause the two holes at their extremities to become coincident and enable a nail E to be driven throughboth into the stave B as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The shorter arms d2 d2 are of such a length as to clasp the longitudinal strip F at the portion where a notch or cavity 7 is formed as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. rllhe notch may be formed on one only of the edges of the strip or on both edges as indicated in Fig. 11. 'Ihe notch f serves to prevent longitu dinal displacement of the clip fastening D along the strip F.

To enable the clip fastening to closely embrace staves of varying girth, the cross shaped clip-piece may be somewhat modified as shown by G in Fig. 7 and bent to embrace the stave as shown in Figs. 8 and 9 enabling each arm g1 to be separately nailed to the stave.

According to a further modication the extremities of the longer arms of the crossshaped clip-piece may be bent hook-shaped as shown in Fig. 10 and secured together by wire and thus obtain a tighter embrace of the stave.

I claim:

1. A fence comprising spaced vertical staves, flat strips spanning the staves and elongated fastening elements embracing the staves and having medial extensions embracing the strips.

2. fence comprising spaced vertical staves, Hat strips spanning the staves and In testimony whereof I have signed my formed at intervals With notches, and elonname to this specilication in the presence of l0 gated fastening elements embracing the two subscribing Witnesses.

staves and having medial extensions embrae- T ing the strips and engaging said notches to WALTER CLAUDE JOHAS-ON' prevent longitudinal as Well as vertical Vitnesses: movements of the strips With respect to the RoBT. A. BLAKE, staves. F. W. LANE.

, Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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