US396299A - Fence - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. SHERIFF, OF MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,299, dated January 15, 1889. Application filed October 19, 1888. Serial No. 288,555. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH IWI. SHERIEF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mercer, in the county of Hercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l represents a side elevation of a fence-panel constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view of one picket and the contiguous portions of, the horizontal fence-wire rails; Fig. 3, a detail sectional view, slightly enlarged to show more clearly my new method of securing the pickets to the fence-rails; Fig. 4, a similar view showing' the fastening-wire continuous.

The invention has for its obj ects to provide an extremelyv simple, inexpensive, and practical method of securing pickets to the horizontal rails of a fence by means of peculiarlyconstructed wire fasteners, as will more fully hereinafter appear.

In the drawings annexed, A A designate two ordinary fence-posts, between which are tautly stretched suitable horizontal wire rails, B B. Tire rails are shown, and are preferred in carrying out my invention; but it is evi dentthat other rails may be employed, if found desirable or advantageous.

The pickets O are secured to the horizontal wires B, at their intersection with the same, by means of wire fasteners D, the pickets being preferably held up off of the ground, as shown. These fasteners each consist, preferably, of a single piece of wire bent into proper shape by means of suitable tools.

Each fastener is constructed as follows: One end of the wire is securely attached to the fence-rail B by twisting it around the same, as shown at a, the free end of the wire being carried around in front of the picket and passed through a horizontal aperture, b, in the same. The wire is then bent around the fencerail and passed back again through hole I), forming a loop, c, through which the fencewire B passes. carried to the other side of the picket and secured to the main wire again, as at a. Instead of first securing the end of the wire to the rail, as above described, it is evident that any other method of applying the fastener may be adopted. For instance, the wire may be bent about midway its length to form the loop c and the two ends of the wire then passed through the hole in the picket and bent around and secured to the fence-rail upon opposite sides of the picket.

It is evident that instead of using separate wires for each picket, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, (which construction I prefer,) several or' any number of them may be formed of one piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 4.

The fastener as thus constructed is easily applied and will effectually prevent the pickets sagging. It also avoids the use of grooves or staples in the same to bind the pickets to the rails. An important advantage of this particular construction of fastener lies in the fact that the greater the tendency of the pickets to sag the greater will be the force exerted by the fasteners to bind them to the rails.

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

The combination, with a fence rail and picket, the latter being bored or punctured horizontally, as at Z), of a wire fastener, D, secured to the fence-rail at its ends and provided with a loop, c, said loop passing through the hole in the picket and embracing the fence-rail, substantially as described.

.In testimony whereof I afIiX my sign ature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH M. SHERIFF.

IVitnesses:

H. H. ZEIGLER, J ..R. W. BAKER.

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