US402595A - Fence - Google Patents

Description

l(No Model.)

G. A.HORN.

PBNGB.

No. 402,595. Y 1 'Patented May 7, 1889;'

N. PETERS, PhuLHhomphar, Washlpgton. D. C`

NTED STATES AJ'TENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. HORN, OF NE\VARK, NEWY YORK.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,595, dated May '7, 1889.

Application tiled February 27, 1889. Serial No. 301,319. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HORN, of Newark, in the county of YVayne and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specication and shown in the accompanying drawings.

The object of' my invention isto produce an improved worm rail fence, the same being hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims. This fence is constructed so as to save one rail in each panel, amounting` to the saving of oneseventh of the whole number ofI rails in putting up a seven-rail fence of any given length.

A wire binder secures the rails at each angle of the fence, the loop in said binder being made to encircle the upper rails ofthe fence at each angle, preferably more than one-half of the rails at the angle being inclosed within the loop. The tightener for the wire binder is placed midway of the height of the fence, it being thereby held by the combined weight of all the rails above it.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of `a worm fence, showing the rails forming two angles of the fence; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3, drawn to a smaller scale, a side elevation, at an inner angle, of the fence, showing the wire binder before being strained upon the rails. l

Referring to the parts shown in the drawings, A are the rails forming the panels of a worm fence, laidtogether in substantially the usual manner, and preferably resting upon block h. .d is a binder, formed of wire or cable, for the rails at the angle of the fence; and c, a tightener for the wire binder. In practice this tightener is a piece of broken rail or similar stick of wood otherwise of no use in the construction of the fence. The bindingwire is made to form a loop inclosing'the upper rails ofthe fence, preferably more than one-half of the railsrat each angle of the fence being inclosed in the loop. From the loop the wire Vis carried downward to an anchoring-stake, d, to which it is made secure by any simple means. The tightener c for the wire binder is inserted between two adjacent rails at the angle of the fence, about midway of the height of the latter, one end of the tight-ener being also passed through the wire loop. The free end of the tightener is then swung in a radial direction in substantially a horizontal plane, as-indicated in Fig. l, to a position immediately beneath and in contact with the superincumbent rail, to which it is secured by a holder, e, made, preferably, of cable or wire. This holder c may have its ends fastened together by any simple meansas, for instance, by twisting them one over the other.

In building up this fence new the ends of lthe tighteners c are placed between the rails at the angles of the fence, at about the middle of the height of the latter, the tighteners standing o ut from the fence, substantially as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l. After the rails are all laid up the binding-wires d are respectively secured to stakes d, driven in the ground at the inner angles of the fence. These wires are each then carried up the adjacent inner angle of the fence, over the top rail, and downward along the opposite angle and around under the adjacent end of the rail first below the tightener c. It is then brought through the fence andthe end secured to the wire, as s hown at f, thus forming a complete loop, encircling all the rails above the tightener, the latter, and the rail next beneath the tightener. The tighteners are then successively swung to place, as above stated, having their free ends made fast by holders e. When thus completed, the upper rails of the fence at each angle and the respective tighteners are all firmly bound together, the tighteners being parallel with the respective superincumbent rails and in close contact with the under surfaces of the latter. By means of these tightening-sticks the wire loops are twisted and drawn down-tightly over the rails; and by the use of these sticks a rail is saved for each panel of fence, which is a matter of importance in constructing farm-fences.

In applying this improvement to old fences, or fences of which the rails are `already laid up, I drive the anchor-stakes d alternately on opposite sides of the fence, as shown. I then raise the rails at each angle of the fence and insert the ends of the respective tighteningsticks at the places desired, allowing them to stond ont from the fence, substantially as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l. The binding-Wires are then secured to the respective stakes and carried over the rails and looped, as above described.

The Various wire loops, when strained by the tighteners, firmly hold the upper rails and the tighteners together, while the wireconneetions with the anchor-stakes hold down all of the rails, the stakes being driven down so :is to draw tightly upon the wires.

What I claim as my invention is- A Worm fence composed of rails laid together substantially in the usual manner, in combination with :t Wire or cable binder for the rails at the angle of the fence and a tight` ener for said binder, the binder being formed in a loop to encircle the upper rails of thc felice, and said tightener for the Wire binder being shorter than the rails of the fence and placed between the rails midway of the height of the fence, said tightener being passed through the loop and turned to a, position parallel with the superincumbent rail and contiguous to the under surface thereof, and a fastener or holder for said tightener and superineum bent mil, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE A. HORN.

VitneSSeS:

E. B. WHITMORE, M. L. HCDERMOTT.

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