US484756A - Wire fence - Google Patents

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(No Model.) I

R. B. PERKINS.

l WIRE PBNGE. y No. 484,756. Patented oct. 1s, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD B. PERKINS, OF HORNELLSVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES A. BALL, OF VELLSVILLE, NEWA YORK.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,756, dated October 18, 1892.

Application filed February 3, 1892. Serial No. 420,186. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD BPERKINS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hornellsville, in the county of Steuben and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences; and I do hereby 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.

My invention relates .to improvments in Wire fences of that class which employ longitudinally-twisted strands of Wire; and the objects of the invention are, first, to provide an improved fence-wire in which the longitudinally-entwined strands are locked and held in place by an ornamental third wire, which passes from opposite sides of the axis of the entwined strands through the loops formed in the latter, which further serves to prevent the entwined strands from turning either way or from twisting tighter or untwisting; second, to secure uniform tension of the entwined central strands, so that when the wire is stretched the ornamental third wire will be held irmer between said entwined strands, and, third, to enable the wire to be easily and quickly secured to the fenceposts, either by nails driven through the loops of the ornamental wire or by staples which straddle the entwined central strands of the fence-wire.

With these ends in View my invention consists in the combination of two central longitudinally-twisted strands and a third ornamental strand passing through the loops formed' by the twisted central strands and adapted to lock such wires together and give to the fence an attractive appearance.

My invention further consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an illustration of a fence-wire constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Figs. 3 and et are sectional views on the lines 0c c and y y, respectively, of Fig. 1.

' together.

Like letters of reference denote correspond- 5o ing parts in all the figures of the drawings, referring to which- A A designate the two central strands of my improved fence-wire. As shown, these wires are twisted throughout their length, forming a series of eyes or loops B, which are equidistant from each other. The entwined central strands A A are locked or fastened in position, and prevented from becoming untwisted by a third ornamental wire C prefer- 6o ably of less diameter than the main wires A A. The third ornamental wire C, passes through the loops or eyes B, formed by the entwined wires A A', from opposite sides of the axis of the entwined central strands. The parts of said third wire remote from the central strands A A are bent upon the strand to form eyes or loops D D on opposite sides of the central wires. The loops or eyes D on one side of the central wires are arranged 7o in nearly the same vertical plane as the loops or eyes D on the other side of the entwined central wires. The lockingstrand C passes down through one of the eyes B on one side of one of the central strands A A', and after 7g it is bent t-o form an eye or loop D it passes up through the next or adjoining eye B out on the opposite side of one of the central strands. By thus crossing the main strands and passing on opposite sides of each of them 8o at adjoining eyes B the central strands are prevented from becoming twisted tighter and from untwisting, and they are securely locked The loops or eyes D, formed in the locking-strand C, serve to give the Whole Wire 8L; an attractive and ornamental appearance, andthe width of the fence-wire can be varied by increasing and decreasing the length of the loops or eyes D D in the ornamental wire G.

The fence-wire formed in the manner described can be easily and quickly attached to suitable fence-posts by driving nails or staples through such eyes and across the central en twined strands of the Wirer Having thus fully described my improvements, what I claim as new, and desire to se-I cure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, an ornamental stantially as described, for the purpose specifence-wire consisting of two longitndinallyfied. 1o entwined strands and a third ornamental In testimony whereof I ax my signature in strand having its inclined parts passing in presence of two Witnesses.

straight lines through the eyes formed by the RICHARD B. PERKINS. twisted central strands and which is coiled Witnesses: upon itself on opposite sides of said central FILLMORE STIOKLES,

strands to form a series of eyes or loops,` sub- WILLIAM S. CHARLES.

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