US1435508A - Fence-wire clamp - Google Patents

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D. SPALDING.

FENCE WIRE CLAMP. APPLICATION 'rnso mm 24. 1921.

Patented Nov. 14,1922

Patented Nov. 14, 1922.

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' Application medium 24, 192i. Serial no. 480,109.

To all w ham it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID SPALDING, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Lonerock, in the county of Gilliam, State of Oregon, U. S. A., have invented a new a-nduseful Fenceire Clamp; and I do hereby declare the following to'be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as" will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

The invention relates to fence wire clamps and has for its object to provide a. device of this character wherein the fence wire will be held in such a manner that all of its longitudinally disposed strands will be securely held between hingedly connected members having a metallic rod therein and a groove registering with said rod, said rod and groove forming means for bending the 1011- to imbed in one face thereof a metallic rod,-

one side of which metallic rod cooperates with a groove in the opposite hinged member for bending the wires of the wire fence mesh work.

With the above and other objects in View the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth,'shown in the drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention. I

In the drawings Figure l is a side elevation of the-wire clamp.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of-the wire clamp.

v Figure 3 is a perspective view of the wire clamp showing the hinged members partiallyopen.

Figure dis a detail view of the means for pivoting the securing bolt of the clamp.

Figure 5 is a top plan view of a clamp for holding the hinged clamp members against spring outwardly during a clamping opera-- tion.

' ease esteem i v 7 Referring to the drawings v thenumerals land 2 designate elongated clampingim'emhers, which members arepreferably -r;ecta1,i-- iv .gular shaped in horizontal cross section and provided with flregistering (semi circular grooves 3 and d, said grooves extending lon-- gitudinally of the inner faces of'thc clamp ing members 11 and 2. .Disposediwithin the clampmg"member.v 2xand' n" the groove 4 thereof is a-longitudinally disposed metal i lic'v rod 5, whichrod is provided-with trans- -fi I I versely disposed :bars 6disposediin recesses clamping members 1 and 2 are forced together after the wire fencing-8 is placed therebetween and themembers 1 and 2 closed onthe hinging point 9, said bar 5 will bend the longitudinally disposed-strands 10 of the fencing 8vwhensaid bar 5 is forced into the groove 3. By bending the strands 10 it will be seenlthat, they will be held againstslipping when chains 11 are connected to the transversely disposed bars 6 by connecting the chains to the eyes 12. Pivotally secured on a cross bar 18. carried on the outer face of the upper end of the clamping member 2 is a threaded bolt 14, which bolt extends through registering slotsl5 in the free. ends 4 of the clamping members land 2 and is pro- 1 vided with a lever 16, by means of which lever the clamping members 1 andl2 maybe Transversely securely clamped together. disposed bars 6 are connected to the round rod 5 by means of rivets 16, therefore it will be seen-that when a pull is imparted onthe chains 11 that the strainwill be equally distributed throughout the clampfand at the" same time so distributed that the main spring falls on the longitudinally disposed rod 5,;'

which rod not only forms means for placing bends in the longitudinally disposed wires 10 butalso formsmeans for bracing longitudinally the clamp as whole during a,

clamping operation. It has been found that a clamping action must be positive throughout thelength of the clamp if slipping is to be prevented. To accomplish this result an auxlliary clamp 171s provided, which clamp members-l and 2 when they are in closed pos1t1on for, preventing outwardspringing of is adapted to be centrally disposed on the said members during a clamping"operation. By provldlng the clamping member 17 the size of the main clamp'may be reduced to a.v

. v minimum andall of the best results obtain able in an extremely large clamp-i c which would be i'ln'wieldy is obtainablein a lighter constructed clamp.

From the above it will be seen that a Wire clamp provided which is simple in, construction and one wherein the parts have been reduced to a minimum. g

i The transversely disposed plates 6 have their ends 18 provided with lugs l9 which lugs When the clamping members 1 and 2 are brought 7 together overlie the side of the clamping member 1 and, form means for ad ditionally holding the clamping member 1 against movement during a Wire fence stretching operation The invention having been set forth What is claimed as new and useful is 1- A Wire fence stretching device comprising a pair of hingedly connected elongated rectangular shaped clamping members, the ad jacent faces of said members being provided with longitudinally disposed semi-circular grooves in registration With each other, one

of said grooves having-disposedtherein a metallic rod, transversely disposed bars carried by said metallic rod and imbedded in one of the clamping men'ibers, rivets passing through the rod the transversely disposed bars and the clamping member for holding said parts together, the ends of the transversely disposed'hars at one side of the member on Which they are disposed being pro vided with lugs for overlying the side of the adjacent clamping member and means whereby members may be connected to one end of the transversely disposed bars for imparting a pull on the clamping device as a Whole.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses. v

DAVID SPALDIN'G, VVitnesses: I

ESTELLA 13., Gorr, J. B. Gorr.

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