US240083A

US240083A - Thtjrlow-cumming-bruce

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Publication number: US240083A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-04-12
Anticipated expiration: 1898-04-12

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T. J. HOVELL-TH-URLOW-GUMMING-BRUCE. Spike for Fenoe Wire.

No. 240,083. Patented April 12,1881.

' WITNESSES: IEVENTOE:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' THOMAS J. HOVELL-THURLOW-OUMMlNG-BRUOE, OF THURLOW, ooUNTY or SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

SPIKE FOR FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,083, dated April 12, 1881, Application filed June 22, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England April 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, THOMAS JOHN HOVELL THURLOVWOUMMING-BRUCE, Baron Thurlow, of Thurlow, in the county of Suffolk, England, have invented a new and improved Hammer- Olosing Staple for Supporting and Guiding Wires or WireGords; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description oi the same.

My invention relates to an improved staple for supporting, retaining, or guiding the wires or wire-cords used for fencing, for bell-hanging, for garden, and other such like purposes.

My invention consists in a hammer-closing staple, being an eye formed upon the end of a single tapered or pointed shank or prong, the improvement consisting in making the eye with an opening or slit, through which the wire can be passed into the eye without being threaded or drawn endwise therethrough, the

said opening or slit being in such a position as to be closed by the bending of the eye under the blows of the hammer in driving the staple into the post, thereby securely retaining the wire.

The advantages of my improved staple are First, that having but asingle prong it is not liable to split the post, as the ordinary double-pronged staple generally does to a greater or less extent.

Second,that smaller posts may consequently be used with great economy in the erection of wire fencing, especially where the transport of the posts presents difficulties. It thus allows thinnings of young woods to be out earlier and used for fencing purposes, to the great benefit of the plantations themselves.

Third, that it takes as firm a hold in the post as a common nail, and is not liable to become loose and to fall out, as so very frequently happens with the double-pronged staple, leaving the holes and splits in the post exposed to the decaying influences of the weather.

My improved staple is especially applicable to wire fencing erected on the Gorim'ony principle, in which slender dropper-s are used.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 2 an edge view, of one form of improved staple before it has been driven into the post. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same as driven into a post and closed upon the wire.

The staples shown in the drawings are given by. way of example, and I do not limit myself to the precise forms or dimensions shown. The staple may either be punched of the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 out of sheets of the proper thickness orotherwise made of wroughtiron or other metal sufficiently malleable to permit of the eye bending under the blows of the hammer.

to is the shank, and I) the eye, formed with a slit or opening, 0, for the introduction of the fence-wire. i

In use the shank a is first driven lightly a short distance into the post without bending" the eye, and the wire is then slipped through the slit or opening 0. The staple is then driven quite home, the blows of the hammer at the same time bending the eye sufficiently to close up the opening 0.

I am aware that a staple having one shank and a rigid slotted projection upon one side for holding a bar or Wire has before been used. I therefore do not claim a one-shanked staple, broadly; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A sin gle-pron ged staple having an eye formed with a slit or opening capable of being closed in the act of driving the staple, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me the 11th day of February, 1881. I THOMAS JOHN HOVELL-THURLOW-CUMMING-BRUOE.

Witnesses: 4

CHAS. Boone, 'lnos. MARCH, Both of 2 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London.