US189861A - Improvement in barbed fences - Google Patents

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G. G. HUNT.

BARBED FENCE. I No 189,861. Patented Apri124, 1877.

UNITED STATES 'GEORGE G. HUNT, OF BRISTOL, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARBED FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,861, dated April 24, i877; application filed February 5, 1877. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE G. HUNT, of

Bristol, Kendall county, Illinois, have in vented a Barbed Wire for Fences, of which the fol lowing is a specification: The nature of this invention consists of an improved mode of constructing barbed wires for fences, the object of which is that the fence may be easily repaired when out of order, and that each section of fence between each two or more contiguous posts may be independent of the rest, and hence gaps may be easily made for passage, if desired.

In the-drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification, A A represent portions of short sections of twisted Wire, each section being provided with a hook, B, at one end, and an eye, 0, at the other end, so that the hook on one section may be hooked into the eye of the adjoining section, and so on. The hook of each section is provided with barbs-D D, which are an integral part of the section itself.

The sections A A are made by cutting wire into suitable lengths and folding them in the middle, so that the ends of the wire, when folded, may be even with each other. The hook is then formed at that end of the section where the ends of the wire are, and the ends of the wire are then separated and turnedvso that the points stand in opposite directions, and at or near right angles with the body of the section, and also, by preference, at right angles with the plane in which the hook is bent, The sections are then held by the ends and twisted, which stifl'ens and holds them in shape; The ends of the wires may be cut diagonally, which makes the barbs sharp,

When the sections are twisted, enough is left untwisted at the folded end to form an open loop or eye, through which the body of anadjoining section may pass and bring up in the hook, and this process is repeated until a length sufficient to reach from post to post is bad, when it can be put up with nails or staples.

It will be seen that each section of wire is independent of each other section, and is not in any way a part of another section, and is adapted to be made and sold independent and loose in boxes, and when wanted for use is then to be simply hooked together.

I am aware that metal sections of fence have heretofore been made and used, and

therefore I do not claim, broadly, such de- GEORGE G. HUIjTT.

Witnesses:

G. G. ADAMS, J osnrn F. WRIGHT.

PATENT OFFICE.

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