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Description

(No Model.)

E. R. ANNABLE.

FENCE POST.

No. 311,710. Patented P81113, 1885.

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. EDVARD R. ANNABLE, OF PAY/V PAW, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN HODGES, OF SAME PLAGE.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 350.311,710, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed April '29, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it 17mg/ concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD B. ANNABLE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Paw Paw, county of Van Buren, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Fence-Post, of which the following is a specieation.

My invention consists in an improved tile fence-post, substantially as herein described and claimed. My post is especially designed for use in wire fences.

A construction embodying the invention consists in tile sections located one above auother, with coupling-plates between the ends, and a central rod securing the whole together'.

In the drawings forming a part ot this specification, Figure l is a side elevation of the post with the portion in the ground represented in dotted lines; Fig. 2, avertical seetion of the post taken on dotted lines 2 2 in Fig. 5, with the central rod and a portion of the coupling-plates left full. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the tiles. Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken part, partly in section; Fig. 5, a plan view oi" a coupling-plate, and Fig. 6 a broken part with coupling-plate in section on line 2 2 in Fig. 5.

By making a post ot' tile sections B B, in lieu of a single length of tile forming an entire post, economy is secured from the fact that the number of sections B B required for a post of a given length cost far less than asingle tile representing the same length of post. A single length is more liable to break from the fact that the joints between the sections will yield before the tile sections will break. The sections B are to be composed of any suitable material, and may be in any forni desired-square, octagonal, round, or otherwise. The division between the sections B B readily admits of connecting the fence-wires to the posts by passing them through the posts, as shown in the drawings. Gains i' r may be formed iu the end of the sections, as seen at r, Fig. 3, in which to locate the wire. The coupling-plate has a downwardlyextending ilauge, a, adapted to lit over the end 'of a seetion, B, and au upwardly-extending flange, t, adapted to enter the interior of the end of a section, as shown in Fig. 6.

The couplingplate is provided with a central hole, n, in 5o which the securing-rod D is located. These iianges or ribs assist in coupling the parts when building the posts, but are ot' no especial use (except to indent the wire, as hereinafter explained) after the parts are bound together, as the engagement of the ends of the sections with the plates is sufficiently firm to keep the tile and plates from slipping out of place. The lower end ot" the rod D is headed, and the upper end is threaded and provided 6o with a tension-nut.

In building a fence the rod D, with a length or two of the tubular sections B Bon the lower end, is let down into the earth. rl-hen alternating coupling plates, tubular sections, and wires may be added. At4 the lower and upper ends ot' the post are plates or caps o s, which center the rod D and forni Aa clamp when the nut is screwed down to draw the sections together. Thus the rod oi' a size to t 7o the perforations of the plates and passing through them is kept in the true vertical cen` ter ot' the hollows of each section, which tends to keep the post vertically straight, whether the ends ofthe tile sections are exactly smooth 7 and square or not. A post thus made is strong and lasting, and will be i'ound of great value where timber is scarce, and especially in sections et' country where lires are liable to rage. The post may be provided with a gains or notches 1' r, of such a depth and coupling-plates having flanges a of such a width that said flanges will engage or indent the wires c when the tension-nut is screwed down, and thus lock the wires to the post. 8

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A feneepost consisting of sections of hollow tile, plates engaging the ends of said 9o sections, having central perforations, and a rod passing through the perforations and bindinglhe parts together, by which means the rod is kept in the vertical center of the hollow of each section for the object stated, sub- 9 5 stantially as set forth.

2. A fencepost consisting of sections of hollow tile having gains in the end to receive the fen oe-wires, ribbed p] ates engagingvthe ends unto subscribed 1n tions, and a rod passi ng through the perforations and binding the parts together, Where- 5 by the Wires are indented by the ribs of the plates. substantially as seb forth.

In testimony of'the foregoing I have here- W'itnesses:

y name in the -presence of EL VARD R. ANNABLE.

J oHN HoDGEs, J oHN H. CHASE.

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