US144113A - Improvement in splicing fence-rails - Google Patents

Description

NITED STATES DANIEL W. KNOWLES, OF HOTCHKISSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN *sPLlclNe FENCE-RAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,113, dated October 28, 1873 5 application filed August 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. KNowLns, of Hotchkissville, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Splicing FenceRails; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Fig. l, a view of the fence upon the postside 5 Fig. 2, a vertical section in the line of the post; Fig. 3, a longitudinal central section through one line of the rail; and in Fig. 4, one

of the coupling-plates detached. l

This invention relates to a device for securing the ends or joints in fence-rails, such as are used with iron rods for posts.

The usual practice for forming the joint in the rail for this class of fence has been to lap one rail onto the next, or by a bevel or halved joint, and running the post through the joint.

This construction exposes the joint to the weather, and is, at best, but a weak construction.

To overcome these difficulties is the object of my invention; and it consists in the arrangement of a metal plate, both upon the upper and lower sides of the rails at the joint, with-a flange projecting' over the edge, and one or both of the plates extending out from the` rail to receive the post, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is one length of rail, and B the other, in

the same line. These are cut at right langles at their meeting lines, and butted together, as seen in Fig. 3. Upon the upper side of the rails, at the joint, a plate, C, is placed, anda corresponding plate, D, upon the under side,

extending to the right and left from the joint, and each With a flange, a, projecting from the plate over the edge of the rail, as seen in Figs. l and 2. A bolt, d, (one or 1nore,) passes through the two plates and rail, as seen in Fig. 3, iirmly securing the two ends together.

The plate upon the lower rail is perforated,

preferably with an elongated hole, e, as seen in Fig. 4, and the plate upon the upper rail is formed with a corresponding socket, so that the post E will extend through the lower plate and the upper plate rest on the end of the post, as seen in Fig. 3. y

It will be understood that these posts are formed from iron, rods, usually secured into a stone foundation at the bottom.

The perforation e in the lower plate is made elongated in order to adapt the coupling to .rails which are on an inclination to the post,

ldritnesses Jrs. HUNTINGTON, J. J. BROTHWELL.

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