US487374A

US487374A - Fence-stay

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Publication number: US487374A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-12-06
Anticipated expiration: 1909-12-06

Description

' (No Model.)

A; .A. PARKER.

FENOE STAY.

Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

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ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. PARKER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

FENCE-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,374, dated December 6, 1892.

Application filed July 22, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. PARKER, of Jersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented an Improved Fence-Stay, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stay for wire fences which is of simple construction, durable, and can be readily applied.

It consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a fence provided with my improved stay; Fig. 2, a front view of the stay; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section thereof; Fig. 4, a rear View of the stay proper; Fig. 5, a longitudinal section of a modification of the stay; Fig. 6, a rear view thereof; Fig. 7, a cross-section on line m, Fig. 3; and Fig. 8, a cross-section of the modification.

The letters a a represent the fence-posts.

Z) are the fence-wires, and c is the stay proper. This stay is made in the form of a strip of metal with two fiat sides and provided at the proper intervals with perforations 0', arranged in pairs. At the rear side the stay is provided with a central longitudinal groove c ,'into which the perforations enter. In order to secure the stay to the wires 2), I em- Each staple is made to stradploy staples cl.

Serial No. 440,909. (No model.)

dle one of the wires, (or intertwisted wires,).

and then its two shanks are introduced into two adjoining perforations c and are upset or bent in an upward and downward direction, respectively. Thus the staples are properly held in place and securely hold the stay to the wires. The upset shanks of the staple, being received by the groove 0 upon the back of the stay, are partly sunk and are prevented from becoming spontaneously displaced.

In Figs. 5, 6, and 8 I have shown in the stay 0 a continuous oblong slot 0 in lieu of the two adjoining perforations c. This slot receives both the shanks of the staple, and consequently the staple may be sunk to any desired extent. The result is that the wire I) can be slightly bent by the staple at the point of engagement, as shown at b, Fig. 8, and thus any horizontal motion of the wire is prevented.

What I claim is A fence-stay composed of a strip of metal having two fiat sides, a groove in the center of its rear side, and perforations entering the groove, substantially as specified.

A. A. PARKER. Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J ONGHMANS.