US473028A

US473028A - stewart

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Publication number: US473028A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-04-19
Anticipated expiration: 1909-04-19

Description

(No Model.)

B. O. STEWART, Jr. -& W. A. S'TEWART.

' IRON FENCE.

No. 473,028. 1 Patented Apr. 19", 1s92,

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IRON FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,028, dated April 19, 1892.

Application filed .Tune 26, 1890;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD O. STEW- ART, J r., and WALLACE A. STEWART, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Wichita,in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in Iron Fences, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings;

and the letters and figures of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front View of a portion of a fence, showing different stages of construction of the panel. Fig. 2 is adetailed perspective of a section of the fence-rail; Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section of the fence-panel, showing one picket as it appears when its construction is complete; and Fig. 4, a side View of a single picket as it appears in blank before beingincorporated in the panel.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of iron fences; and it consists in the particular construction of the panel and the manner in which its parts are secured together, which improvements are fully set forth and described in the following specification and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, R R represent the fence-rails, there being, preferably, two rails, an upper and a lower one, which are preferably made of'channel-iron, as shown. The said rails are each provided along their length with a series of equidistant rectangular holes R, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, made of a size adapting them to fit the pickets when the pickets are placed through said railholes in panel form.

P represents the fence-pickets, which are made of flat bariron out to the desired length, as shown in Fig. 4, and when in such form we term them blank pickets.

In the construct-ion of the fence-panel the rails R R are arranged parallel with each other, with their corresponding holes opposite each other and the required distance apart to form the panel. The pickets P, as yet in blank form, are then passed at one end through the holes of one rail R, as repre- Serial No. 356,765. (No model.)

sented, to the right in Fig. 1, after which they are grasped at about the center of their length by some suitable twisting device and spirally twisted from the rail to the twisting device, as shown, by the third picket from the right in Fig. 1. If it is desired to place ornaments in spherical or other form on the pickets between the rails, said ornaments are slipped upon the pickets after such initial twisting is done, as shown by the fourth picket from the right in Fig. 1 at B. When the said ornaments have been placed on the pickets, the pickets are again grasped at the place where the second rail will thereafter be placed and spirally twisted from the ornament to the twisting device, as shown by the fourth picket from the leftin Fig. 1, and when each picket has been thus twisted the second rail R is placed on their untwisted end portions adjacent the twisted portions, as shown by the third picket from the left, after which each end of each picket is grasped by the twisting device and twisted spirally out from each rail.

Should it not be desired to use the ornaments B, the twisting device is first adjusted to grasp the picket at the place where the second rail is afterward placed, and the entire intermediate portion of the pickets will in such instances be twisted by the first twisting operation.

By reason of the holes R of the railsRbeing made to fit the pickets placed therein and by reason of the thickness of the rail metal at such places the picket portions that rest in said holes will not be twisted; but when the other portions of the pickets are twisted each picket where it passes through each rail will have an untwisted section, as shown atC in Figs. 1 and 3, and the twisted portion ofthe pickets adjacent each rail will by reason of theirtwist from shoulders adjacent either side of each rail, which will prevent the said twisted portions from entering the rail-holes R and therefore the pickets cannot turn, as by unscrewing, and move from their seat.

It is the object of this invention to utilize material in the construction of iron fences much lighter than is usual and to form the 7 pickets of the fence so as to increase their or dinary bending resistance and to present a heavy appearance.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. An iron fence consisting of two or more rails having series of equidistant and corresponding picket-holes through their bodies and of a series of flat metal pickets arranged through the holes of said rails and spirally twisted in the same direction throughout their length, the curve being broken at each rail, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described iron fence, consisting of two or more rails havingcorresponding specified.

RICHARD O. STEWART, JR. WALLACE A. STEWART. Witnesses:

WM. J. HUTOHINS, N. B. HAGIN.