US472167A - Hand fence-machine - Google Patents

Description

(Model.)

v M. HAYS.

A HAND EENGE MACHINE. No. 472,167. Pate-med Apr. 5, 1892.

UNrrn STATES Prion.

Arent MORRIS HAYS,'OF MONMOUTI-I, ILLINOIS.

HAND FENCE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming per@ of Lettere Patent rre/172,167, dated April 5, 1892.

Application nea Meer 30,1891. serai No. 387,062. (Medel.)

To otZZ whom it may concern.:

1 Be it known that I, MORRIS HAYS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monmouth,

' in the county of Warren and Stateof Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand Fence-Machines for Viring Wood Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying4 drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hand fen'ce-machines'for wiring wood fences;

and it has for its objects the provision of an improved wire-twisting device traveling upon and between guide-rings attached to a suitable support and the more'perfect regulation of the tension upon the fence and stay wires than has heretofore been attained.

Other objects and advantages of the inven-A tion will appear in the following description, and the novelty thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accom- I panying drawings, which form a part of this rial, and secured thereto or made integral therewith are several pairs of guide-rings B B. The guide-rings of each pair are held at a suitable distance apart by means of washers b, secured in position by pins or bolts c, passing through ears d or similar projections from the peripheral surfaces of said guiderings, and nuts c or other suitable fastening devices may be used to hold the guide-rings in proper position with relation to each other, so that the wire-twister may work freely between them and travel in a plane parallel to the planes of said guide-rings. This wiretwister is constructed as follows: The flanges e and e2, formed integral with the segment e, Fig. 3, travel upon the inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the guide-rings, the ears d being considerably thinner than the guiderings in order to enable the flanges e to travel freely along the peripheries thereof, as shown in Fig. 4. The arms f, formed integral with the segment and its flanges and at right angles thereto, are squared' at their outer ends for the reception of wire-guides g g. These wireguides are slotted longitudinally through almost their entire length and can be readily adjusted at any desired position upon the squared ends of the arms f by means of nuts h and screws 'i in order to allow for the size of the material used in the construction of the fence. The inner ends of the wire-guides are hooked, as at g2 g3, to receive the fence-wires and to guide the wire over the wire-carrier la. These hooks serve, also, to prevent the slipping of the fence-wires and the formation of knots or short twists in the same. The wire-carrier is made,preferably,in the shape of a cleat, as shown, and is formed integral with the segment, its flanges, and the arms f. Its position is approximately midway between said arms and in the plane of the segment.

The tension device which I use in connection with the wire-twisting apparatus is shown in Fig. 5. The spindle Z, mounted in the forks m m, carries a ratchet-wheel n near one fork. A ratchet o, fastened to said fork by the pin p, engages with the teeth of said ratchetwheel and prevents the unwinding of the staywire s, which is wound around said spindle and passes through a hole therein, the slack of the wire being taken up by coiling it upon the spindle. The arm m', attached to orformed integral with the forks m m, has upon its sides rows of studs or lugs m2 m2, lying in the samehorizontal plane. The heads of these lugs are larger than the necks in order to keep the wires in place when woven among said lugs, and the distance between the lugs is sufficient to admit wires of different sizes and to prevent any unnecessary bending of such-wires. These lugs are rounded and grooved alternately on their opposite faces to form elliptical cross-sections in line with the fence-wires IOO and to still further reduce the danger of short bends forming in said wires.

The operation of my machine is as follows: As many pairs of wires are first secured to the starting-post as are desired,and the wires are woven among the lugs of the tension devices, stay-wires being secured to the spindles Z, as before described, and to a distant post. The proper degree of tension having been obtained by winding the stay-wires upon the spindles, the operator grasps the handles A and A2 and inserts the wires through the unobstructed openings B2 in the guide-rings, passing one wire of each pair through the hooks g2 of the wire-guides and over the arms 7c of the wirefcarrier and the other wire over the hooks g3 and the arms 7a2. It will be apparent that if the operator then draws the apparatus toward himself the wires will carry each of the wire-twisters from the position shown in Fig. I to a point near the openings B2. By elevating the apparatus suiciently the wire-twisters are then carried to a point opposite their first position and the guiderings will have been moved through an arc of one hundred and eighty degrees. If the operator then pushes the apparatus from him, the wire-twisters will take up positions opposite the openings B2 and the guide-rings will have moved through an arc of two hundred and seventy degrees. If the apparatus is then lowered, the wire-twisters will return to the position shown in Fig. I and the guiderings will have madea complete turn of three hundred and sixty degrees, and each pair of wires will have been twisted once. Although I have described four movements as being necessary to bring about the twisting of each pair of wires, it is evident that there are not, strictly speaking, four distinct movements, but that the movement of the apparatus is really a circular one in a plane in line wit-h nthe guide-rings, as `it is obvious that the guide-rings must move in substantially a circle about the fence-wires. One twist having been given to each pair of wires, a picket is inserted between them, and a twist in the opposite direction is made by reversing the movement of the apparatus so that the guiderings will turnV in a direction opposite to that before described-that is to say, the operator will rst push the apparatus from him, then lower it, then draw it toward himself, and finally raise it. As many twists as desired can be given each way. The picket will then be held securely in place between the twists in the wires. A second picket is then inserted and the operations above d escribed are repeated. It will be evident that as the twisting of the wires is continued the tension on the wires will graduallybecome greater, owing to the weight of the pickets and the shortening of the wires, and that the said wires will gradually slip through the lugs m2 of the tension device and preserve the required degree of tension. This may be regulated either by increasing or decreasing the number of said lugs, according to the character of the materials of which the fence is to be made, or by weaving the wire over and under the lugs singly or under and over two or more at a time. The adjustment of the wire-guides g g' toward and from each other by means of the nuts 7L and the screws i to permit of the insertion between the wires of thin or thick pickets facilitates greatly the work of the operator.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting lnyself to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is evident that they may be modified without departing from the spirit of the invention. For instance, the iianges e of the wire-twisters may work in grooves in the opposing plane faces of the guide-rings. The wire-carrier 7c and the arms f might also be removed and the wire-guides adj ustably secured to the inner peri pheries of the segments.

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

l. Ahand fence-machine comprising guiderings secured in pairs to a suitable support and a wire-twister for each pair of guiderings, adapted to travel circumferentially around and between and in a plane parallel to the planes of the same.

' 2. A tension device for hand fence ma- ,"chines, havinglateral projections from each side of the body at one end thereof, said projections being rounded and grooved alternately on their opposite faces to form elliptical cross-sections in line with the fencewires and at the other end thereof having means for securing a stay-wire.

3. In a wire-twister for hand fencema- IOO chines, a pair of wire-guides independently adjustable upon arms extending at right angles to the body of said twister and having their adjacent ends hooked for the reception of the wires, substantially as described.

4. In a hand fence-machine, the combination, with a pair of guide-'rings B B, of a wiretwister consisting of the segment e, iianged at e and e2, wire-carrier 7c, armsf, and the adjustable wire-guides secured to the ends of said arms, substantially as described.

5. A tension device consisting of the body portion carrying the two rows of lugs m2, rounded and grooved alternately on their opposite faces to form elliptical cross-sections in line with the fence-Wires, and forks m m, spindle Z, ratchet-wheel n, ratchet o, secured to one of the forks by the pin p, and a crank for turning the spindle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MORRIS IIAYS.

Witnesses:

SAM. S. IIALLAM, Josnrn Dnvonn.

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