US1339541A - Wire fabric - Google Patents

Description

J. S. BARNES.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3.1918.

1,339,541 Patented May 11, 1920.

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atten/m JOHN s. BARNES, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

WIRE FABRIC.

Application led October 3, 1918.

To all whom t may concer/a Be It known that I, JOHN S. BARNES,

citizen of the United States, residing at De troit, county of Vayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in lire Fabric, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a wire fabric shown in the accompanying drawings and more particularly set forth in the following specification and claims.

One of the objects of this invention is to produce a wire fabric of simple and inex pensive construction in which both the transverse and lateral wires are continuous throughout the length of the fabric, the construction being such that by the use of a machine which will form the subject-matter of another application for Letters Patent, the fabric may be produced with great rapidity and at a minimum cost of manufacture.

.Vhile the fabric thus produced is adapted for a wide range of purposes it may be employed to reinforce trench walls, construct knockdown packages, chicken houses, fences,

form waste-paper incinerators, or the like.

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

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of the fabric.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing the construction of the interlocking lateral wires or strips.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1920.

Serial No. 256,673.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation of a modification, showing the pickets bent to interlock with the lateral wires to provide against displacement. l

Referring now to the letters of reference placed upon the drawings A denotes a continuous strand of wire constructed with return bends spaced apart and forming the vertical members or pickets of the fabric.

B indicates a continuous flattened lateral wire or strip, notched on each edge as indicated at B1 to receivel the pickets.

C designates a relatively narrow flattened lateral wire or strip cooperating with the wire B to engage the respective pickets formed by the wire A.

The wires B and .C are cach provided with opposing indentations D to receive the pickets, as indicated in Fig. 3; and between adjacent pickets the edges of the wire B are bent to overlap the edges of the wire C as shown in Fig. fl, thereby making the wires B and C in effect a single lateral unit engaging the pickets.

To provide against displacement of the lateral wires with respect to the pickets, the latter may be indented as shown at E in Fig. 5, thereby securing the parts in iXed relation to each other.

Instead of forming the pickets by bending a continuous wire strand in alternate re verse directions, separate pickets may be employed held by a plurality of pairs of the cooperating lateral members previously described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A wire fabric comprising a continuous strand of wire having return bends spaced apart to form pickets, said pickets being indented at spaced intervals to receive intersecting members, and a plurality of intersecting members consisting of pairs of continuous strips also indented at intervals to receive the pickets formed by the strand of Wire, one member of each pair of intersecting strips overlapping the edges of the other intersecting member between said pickets to form a single intersecting unit.

2. A fabric comprising a plurality of pickets spaced apart and severally indented at spaced intervals to receive a pair of overlapping intersecting members; and a plurality of coperating pairs of intersecting members spaced apart having opposing indentations to receive the indented portions of the pickets, the edges of one member of each pair of intersecting members being bent between the pickets to overlap the edges of 15 the cooperating intersecting member.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN S. BARNES. Witnesses:

S. E. THOMAS, JOHN CoNsInrNn, Jr.

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