US345877A

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Publication number: US345877A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 1903-07-20

Description

(No Model.)

C. B. BRAINARD.

STAY F03 WIRE FBNGES.

No. 345,877. Patented July 20, 1886.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes. V

CURTIS B. BRAINARD, OF JOLIE'I, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO VILLIAM J. ADAM, OF SAME PLACE.

STAY FOR WIRE. FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,877, dated July 20, 1886.

Y Application filed March 9, 1886. Serial No. 194,519. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern;

Be it known that I, CURTIS B. BRAINARD, a citizen of the United States of America, re` siding at Joliet, in the county of Till and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stays for Vire Fences, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in stays for wire fences, which improvements are fully set forth and explained in the following specification and claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a perspective view of the stay as it would appear applied to a panel of wire fence; and Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the stay, showing more in detail the manner in which the fence-wires are secured to it.

Referring to the drawings, S represents the stay proper, which is made of a strong strip or rod of metal corrugated throughout its entire length, and having its upper end formed in an eye, in which to Secure the binding-wire, and having its lower end terminate in the straight portion P, for entering the earth to prevent the swaying of the fencepanel.

O is a binding-wire, considerably less in size than the strand Wire, and secured thereto by having its upper end looped into the rye in the upper end of the stay S, as shown in Fig. 2, andl is for the purpose ofsecuring the fence-wires to the stay.

The manner in which the stay is applied to the fence-wires is shown particularly in Fig. 2, and consists in placing it against the side of the fence-wires, with its lower straight portion, P, resting in the ground and about midway between the fence posts of the panel. The fence-wires are then placed, respectively, in one of the corrugatious of the stay, the proper distance apart, and the binding-wire O is then interwoven between the said corrugations, beginning at the top of the stay, so

as to inclose the fence-wires and secure each one in its proper corrugation.

In order to hold the fencewires securely in their proper corrugations the binding-wire C is coiled once or more around the staywire S, both immediately above and below each fence-wire, as shown in Fig. 2. When allthe fence-wires are thus secured, the lower end of the binding-wire is secured to the foot of the stay by coiling it thereon, as shown in said figure. The strip is corrugated throughout its length, to adapt it to the distance apart the fencewires may be placed.

If desired, the lower end of the stay may be formed in the worm, as shown in Fig. 3, so the stay may be turned to screw the worm into the earth, to more thoroughly secure the stay to the earth than when the lower end is straight, as shown in the other figures.

I am aware that a binding-wire similar to the one I use has heretofore been in use for attaching the fence-wires to the side of a kfence-post having no crimps or indentations for the reception of the fence -wires. I am also aware that a stay for this purpose crimped at intervals and having plain portions between its crimps has been used, in

connection with a clasp shaped like a staple, to inclose the stay and fencewire and hold the fencewires in a crimp and I ain also aware of the use,of a stay for this purpose made of a spiral wire, and used, in connection with a lock wire passed down through its coils, to secure the fence-wires between the spiral wire and the lock-wire; but I am not aware of the use of such a stay-wire as Ihave invented and herein described, made from a wire crimped throughout its entire length, and used in connection with a small bindingwire, as set forth.

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

The stay for wire fences shown and de scribed, consisting of the wire or rod S, having consecutive eorrugations throughout its entire length, and having its upper end terminate in an eye and its lower end in the straight portion P, in Combination with the wires, and having its lower end secured to Smaller long,` binding-wire C, attached thereto the `foot of its follow Wire, substantially as set by having its, upper end looped into the eye for-th.

of its fellow corrugated wir@ S, and adapted CURTIS B. BRAINARD. 5 to secure the fence-Wires in said Coriugfi- Vitnosses:

tions by means of being coiled around the Trios. H. HUTCHINS,

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