US511701A

US511701A - Jacob jacobs

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Publication number: US511701A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-12-26
Anticipated expiration: 1910-12-26

Description

(No Model.)

J. J AGOBS. YARD PROTECTOR.

No. 511,701. Patented' Dec. 26,1893.

Uivrrso States PATENT Fries,

JACOB JACOBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

YARD= PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,701, dated December 26, 1893. ApplicationfiledJ'nne 9,1893. Serial No. 477,092. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: rotation and have each one side that is made Be it known that I, JACOB JACOBS, a citiheavier than its opposite side so as to cause zen ofthe United States, residingat New York, said plates to maintain, normally, substan in the county of New York, and in the State of tially vertical positions. New York, haveinvented certain newand use- When constructed as described and secured ful Improvements in Yard-Protectors; and I ,upon the top of a fence, the device furnishes do herebydeclare that the following is a full, an effective means for preventing small aniclear,and exact description thereof, reference mals from climbing over or securing a footbeing had to the accompanying drawings, in hold upon the same and, in addition thereto 50 which forms an ornamental finish for the top of such Figure l is a perspective view of my device fence. in position upon afcnce,and Fig. 2 is a cross Having thus described my invention, what section of the same. I claim is- Letters of like name and kind refer to like 1. As an improvement in mechanism for 55 parts in each of the figures. protecting a yard, a device which consists of My invention relates to devices for use in a cap shaped to fit over and besecured to the preventing cats and other like animals from top of the fence, and having arms united to passing over or standing upon the top of a and projecting upward from it, a rod supt'cnce, and my said invention consists in the ported by said arms, and a number of short 20 construction and combination of parts, subplates journaled independently of each other stantially as and for the purpose hereinafter 011 said rod, between the arms, and having specified. toothed or serrated edges, substantially as In the carrying of my invention into pracand for the purpose specified. tice,lemployarailAwhichis,preferably,con- 2. As an improvement in mechanism for 25 structed from sheet metal and has such trans protecting a yard, a device which consists of verse form as to adapt it to fit over the top of a cap that is adapted to be secured upon and a fence B and form a cap for the same. At over the top of a fence, and a series of short suitable points along the rail A there are plates which are independently journale d provided arms a which project upward and upon and supported above such cap and have '70 0 within their upper ends receive and contain toothed or serrated edges and are weighted at a rod C that is arranged parallel with said their lower ends to cause them to have, norrail and is secured against longitudinal dismally, vertical positions, substantially as and placement, in any suitable manner. for the purpose shown.

Upon the rod 0 is journaled a series of In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 5 short metal plates D and D that have such have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of length as to enable them to revolve without May, 1893. contact with the rail A and upon their edges are provided with spurs or teeth cl and d simi- JACOB JACOBS lar to the teeth of a saw. Said plates are Vitnesses: 4o separated by washers E and E, or equivalent FRANKLIN LYNCH, means, so that each is capable of independent GEO. W. Tron.