US484872A - Fence - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

H. J. BEAM.

v FENCE.

No. 484,872. 4 Patented 0013. 25, 1892.

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HENRY J. BEAM, OF LEBANON, VIRGINIA.

FENCE.

4 S1?EGIIEICIA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,872, dated October 25, 1892.

Application filed December 21, 1891. Serial No. 415,750. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. BEAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of Russell and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences, of which the following isa specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in fences; and it has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple, cheap, and easily-constructed fence,which shall be strongly braced, not liable to be aifected by winds or storm, and which can be built zigzag or in a straight line, as may be desired.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, forms a part of this specification, and in which is shown a perspective view of a portion of my improved fence.

Referring now to the details of the drawing by letter, A designates the posts or uprights, and as each set may be arranged in a different manner or all the posts in any desired length of fence may be connected after any one of the forms herein shown I will describe each form separately, it being understood that a fence may be constructed having its uprights held to the rails in any of the ways herein set out or part in one way and part in another. It may be found preferable to employ more than one of the forms in a single fence.

Taking first the posts at the left-hand end of the fence herein illustrated, it will be noticed that they are crossed at right angles to the line of the fence and the rails B are held against the hat face of the upright or post, which is practically vertical, the rail O-being held against said flat face aboveY the point of crossing of the posts, the rail D being held against the opposite face of the vertical post in the crotch formed by the crossing of the posts, the posts and rails being secured firmly together by the stout wire E, the upper end of which is looped around the upper end of the inclined post with the twist a bearing upon the upper railD at its top inner edge, and the wire is then brought down over the corresponding edge of the rail O and then along the edge of the inclined post upon its outer face and against the inner faces of the rails B and under the bottom edge of the bottom rail, where the end of the wire is placed around the vertical post and drawn tautand twisted around the vertical portion of the wire, as clearly shown. This forms a Very strong connection for the posts and rails, bracing them, as it does, in all directions. Additional fastenings, as shown at h, may be employed, if desired, in which case the wire E may pass either inside or outside the fastenings b.

At the right-hand side of the drawing I have shown the posts A supplemented by the additional post A. The rails are secured by the wires F and F', the wire F being looped around the lower end of the post A under the bottom railand then extended upward in contact with the outer faces of the rails B and secured at its upper end tothe two other posts, a fastening or loop c being preferably ernployed, which secures the post A to the wire F, as seen. The wire F has its lower end secured to the wire F near the upper end ofthe latter, which is substantially at the center of the posts, and the upper end of the wire F is looped around the upper end of the post A and the post A, to which the lower end of the wire F is secured, the said wire F embracing the rails C and D,the latter of which is heldin the crotch between the posts at the upper end and the rail() beneath the said crotch. This also forms a very strong connection for the posts and rails.

In the form of fastening adjoining that at the right there are shown three posts arranged reversely to those at the right, and a single wire G is employed for holding the parts together. This wire is looped at its upper end around the upper ends of two of the posts and embraces all the rails on one side of the fence, and has its lower end looped around the bottoms of one of the said posts, and the other post not embraced by the upper end being passed under the bottom rail. Additional fastenings d may be employed to bind the posts, rails, and wire together, as shown. In the other form I employ three posts, two of which are inclined in opposite directions from the center one, which is substantially verti- IOO cal; but these posts areall upon one side of the fence and lie flat against the rails. The inclined posts are preferably secured to the rails by the fastening-loops e, and a wire H is employed which has its lower end looped around the center post under the lower rail and its upper end embracing the upper ends of all three posts, being rst looped around the upper rails, as seen at f, and then drawn taut over the upper ends of the posts and secured by twisting or otherwise. Additional fastenings g'may be employed, as shown.

It will be understood, of course, that all of the posts are to be driven or inserted into the ground a sufficient distance to give rigidity to the fence. y

All 'of the forms illustrated and above described are cheap, yet very strong, and a fence thus constructed will withstand the severest storms without injury.

In all the forms shown the binding-wire-ern braces the upper ends of the posts and the lower end of one or more posts and extends beneath the bottom rail and bears against the same, so that the rails are all bound firmly against the posts and all liability to separate is avoided.

What I claim as new is- In a fence, the combination, with the rails, of a plurality of posts arranged all upon one side of the fence and lying flat against the rails and a binding-wire secured by aloop at its lower end to one of the posts beneath the bottom rail and its upper end looped around the upper rails, then looped around the upper ends of all of the said posts, and secured between the two upper and lower loops, substan.

tially as shown and described.

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

y HENRY J. BEAM. Witnesses:

E. S. FINNEY, W. N. HENDRICKS.

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