US510299A - Implement for tightening and splicing fencing-wire - Google Patents

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E. G. SESSIONS & L. B. EMBRBY. IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENING AND SPLIGING FENCING WIRE.

' No. 510,299. Patented Dec. 5,

2 Sheets-Sheet E. G. SESSIONS & L. B. EMBREY. IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENING AND SPLIOING FENCING WIRE.

No. 510,299. I Patented Dec. 5, 1893.

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EGBERTFGISESSIONS, OF RICE, AND LEONARD n. EMBREY, on CORSIOANA, TEXAS.

IMPLEMENT FOR TIGHTENING AND SPLICING FENCING-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 510,299, dated December 5, 1893.

Application filed June 20, 1893. Serial No. 478,264. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- showing a fencing-wire or strand held in the Be it known that we, EGBERT G. SESSIONS, loop-forming and twisting jaws in the poresiding at Rice, and LEONARD B. EMBREY, sition it lies when the loop therein is about residing at Corsicana, county of Navarro, to be formed. Fig. 7,isasimilar view, show- 53 State of Texas, citizens of the United States, ing the wire or strand, after a twist has been have invented new and useful Improvements made and another about to be made. in Implements for Tightening and Splicing In the accompanying drawings, the refer- Fencing-WVire, of which the following is a ence numerals 1 and 2, indicateapair of hanspecitication. dles, pivoted together by a pivot pin 3. In 10 Our invention relates to improvements in front of the pivot-pin 3, the handles are hand-tools or implements for tightening the formed into jaws 4, and 5, which are provided wires of wire fencing or taking up the slack with curved spiral guide-extensions 6 and 7, therein which occurs from various known which extend forward in an inclined direccauses after the fence has been built, said tool tion. The outer surfaces of these guide-ex- I5 or implement being also adapted for joining tensions are, preferably, convex, and together together or splicing the ends of fencing-wir with the outer face of the jaws at and 5, maybe which may become broken. grooved, as at 8, for the purpose of decreasing Said invention has for its object the provisthe weight of the implement, such grooving ion of a tool or implement of the character in no manner impairing their strength or du- 7o 20 mentioned havinganovel construction whererability.

by a loop is formed in the strand of wire which The front face of each of the guide-extenis to be tightened and the parts of such wire sions 6 and 7, is formed with curved,inc1ined adjacent to the loop are brought into paralguide-surfaces 9,running from their rear ends lelism so that they may be intertwisted acto their points or front ends and said exten- 'z 5 curately and neatly; and by which novel sions are concave on their inner faces, as construction the parts of a broken wire are shown in the drawings. Projecting from the brought into parallelism While being twisted concave faces at suitable distance from the or spliced,in order that the joint or splice may front ends of the extensions are lugs orpins, be strong, accurate and neat; and my inven- 10, which when the jaws are closed and the o vention also has for its object the provision extensions brought together contact with each of means for forming loops of different sizes other forming a cross-bar behind which is a in the fencing-wire or strand, whereby a greatwire-receiving pocket 11. er or lesser amount of slack can be taken up Behind the pocket 11, grooves 12 and 13, at one operation of the implement. located one in advance of the other, are

' 5 To such ends our invention consists in the formed in the jaws 4 and 5, so that when the novel construction and combination 'of parts jaws are closed said grooves form wire-rehereinafter described and claimed, reference ceiving recesses, communicating with the being made to theaccompanying drawings, in guide-surfaces 8 and 9. which The operation of the implement is as fol- 0 Figure 1, is a perspective view of an implelows: When it is desired to tighten the wires ment constructedin accordance with our inof a fence to take up the slack therein, the vention, the loop-forming and twisting jaws handles are moved in the proper direction being in their open position. Fig.2is aplan and the jaws opened and passed over the view,saidjaws bein'gclosed. Fig. 3, isafront wire, and then being closed the wire is re- 5 view, the jaws being closed. Fig. 4, is a side ceived in the pocket 11 and prevented escapview of one of said jaws, showing, in dotted ing therefrom by the lugs 10, with which the lines, a loop formed in a fencing-strand for wire engages. The wire now lies in the space tightening or taking up the slackin the same. between the guide surfaces 9, and runs at Fig. 5, is a detail front view, the front wire to right-angles to the guide-extensions as shown I00 50 be twisted-lying in a pocket behind the conin Fig. 5. To tighten the wire, the implement fining devices. Fig. 6, is a detail front view is rotated to the right, the wire slipping up the guide-surfaces 9, as shown in Fig. 6. Further rotation of the implement brings the wire to the extremities of said guide-surfaces and the parts of said wire to be twisted together lie parallel with each other, and in position to be twisted. The wire is twisted around the lugs 10 by continued rotation of the implement and that portion of the wire which encircles the said lugs is formed into a loop; in this manner the slack of the wire is taken up and the wire drawn tight. In case the slack of the wire is too great to permit it being tightened by forming a loop around the lugs 10, it is placed in one or the other of the recesses 12 or 13, which being located at some distance from the front of the lugs 10, where the twisting operation takes place, a larger loop, as shown in Fig. 4., is formed, and consequently a greater amount of slack is taken up.

By arranging the wire-engaging lugs in rear of the extremities of the guide'extensions the parts of the wire to be twisted together lie parallel so that a perfect twisting of the wire is accomplished in coutradistinction to one part of the wire being wound about the other. This is advantageous in that the slack is taken up equally from both sides of the point where the operation is performed and an accurate and neat intertwisting of the wire accomplished.

The perfect intertwisting of the wire effected by the employment of our improved implement also avoids liability of the wire breaking during the operation.

\Ve are aware that a wire twisting implement has heretofore been constructed which is provided with flared jaws having ribs to catch over the wire, which jaws when closed, resemble an augerbit so that a loop is formed when the wire is twisted around the ribs, and such, therefore, we do not claim. The ribs in such prior device are, however, formed at the extreme ends of the jaws and it is not provided with guides extending beyond the ribs. In the use of such prior device it is essential that the operator shall present the instrument accurately at right angles to the wire, and if it is not so presented the wire will not be intertwisted, but one part of the wire will wind itself around the other, the wire in many instances being broken, and the slack of the wire is not evenly taken from both sides of the point where the operation is performed, which is manifestly objectionable. The loop formed by such device, also, is misshapen and unsightly.

By our construction we provide an implement which can be operated by a boy or un skilled hand and it is not necessary that the implement be presented at right angles to the wire, for the reason that the guide-surfaces extending beyond the wire-engaging lugs at all times bring the parts of the wire to be twisted into parallelism, in which posi tion an accurate intertwisting of the wire is effected, taking the slack evenly from both sides and avoiding liability of the wire being broken.

Our improved implement is also adapted for joining together or splicing the ends of a broken fence-wire, the ends of the wire being passed in behind the lugs 10, at opposite sides, then along the sides of the jaws 4 and 5, and the ends placed in one or the other of the recesses 12 or 13. By now rotating the implement, the ends of the wires are intertwisted and securely joined or spliced.

For the purpose of locking the jaws closed, we may provide a button 15, Fig. 1, pivoted to one handle and adapted to be turned toengage the other handle back of the pivot 3.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is 1. In awire-tighteningimplement, the combination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral guide extensions, of wire engaging devices carried by said guideextensions and located in rear of the extremities thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a wire tightening implement, the combination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral guide-extensions formed with wire-guiding surfaces, of Wire engaging devices carried by said guideextensions and located in rear of the extremities thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a wire-tighteningimplement, the combination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral guide-extensions, of two or more sets of wire-engaging devices located in rear of the extremities of said guide-extensions, substantially as described.

4:. In a combined wire-tightening and splicing implement, the combination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral guide-extensions, of grooves formed in said jaws in rearof theextremities of said guide-extensions which when the jaws are closed, form a wire-receiving recess, substantially as described.

5. In a combined wire-tightening and splicing implement, the combination with a pair of pivoted handles provided with jaws having spiral-guide extensions, of lugs carried by said extensions in rear of their extremities and grooves formed in said jaws in rear of said lugs, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EGBERT G. SESSIONS. LEONARD B. EMBREY. YVitnesses:

M. Y. WILsON, J. M. WEAVER.

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