US287372A

US287372A - Wire fence

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Publication number: US287372A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-23

Description

(No Model.)

J. C. FORD.

WIRE FENCE.

No. 287,372. ,c .Patented 001.. 23, 188s. 3

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ANiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. FORD, OF PITTSBURG, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS B. KERR, OF ALLE- GHENY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

WIRE FENCE.

-SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,372, dated October 23, 1883.

v Application filed June 27, 1883. (Xo model To all whom may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN C. FORD, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in W'ire Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the application of warning plates or devices to the strand-wires of wire fences for the purpose of rendering them visible to cattle in order that they may avoid the barrier. This is useful when the strand-wires are not provided with barbs, as it keeps the cattle from running against the wires and tearing them from the posts. It is also useful in ease the wires are provided with barbs, as it tends to prevent the cattle from coming against the barbs and injuring themselves.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe it by reference to the accompanying` drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view of one form of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a section on the line a" x of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a side view of an- `welds the plates and Wires together.

ject from one side thereof, as indicated at c2. The other two sections remain in the original plane of the plate, as at c3. The strand-wires pass back of c and rest on the opposite ends of t-he sections c2, as clearly indicated in the drawings. In Figs. 3 and 4 the sections c2 are punched out ofthe body of the plate and turned back at right angles, as in Figs. 1 and 2. The warning-plate thus made is light and thin, and is applied to the wires with ease wheny the twisting operation is performed. When the wire is galvanized, the galvanizing material There is no danger of the plates becoming detached from the wires, and a fence-wire so made is capable of being rolled up on reels and sold in the manner usually practiced with reference to barb-wire.

My improved fence-wire may be used either alone or in connection with other strands JOHN O. FORD.

Witnesses:

J. P. DRYNAN, W. B. OoRwIN.