US519103A - Wire-fence-winding device - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

I. V ADAIR. WIRE FENCE WINDING DEVICE.

No. 519,103. Patented May 1, 1894.

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WlRE-FENCE-WINDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,103, dated May 1, 1894. Application filed November 7, 1893. Serial No. 490,248. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC V. ADAIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at MacDongalls, in the county of Seneca and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Fence-Weaving Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a fence weaving apparatus, adapted for use in attaching barbed or smooth wire stays to the parallel strands of a wire fence, and it contemplates the provision of a simple, inexpensive and efficient device of portable size and shape which may be operated conveniently and quickly without the aid of auxiliary tools or appliances.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularlypointed out in the claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus embodying my invention, shown in operative position in connection with a fence. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the same. v

- Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawlngs. V

1 designates a frame, preferably rectangular in form, comprising a J-shaped bar, 2, the arms of which are connected by a trans-- verse bar, 3, and the intermediate portion of which is rounded to form a handle 4. .The

arms of the U-shaped bar are extended be:

yond the connecting bar, 8, and terminate, respectively, in a rounded yoke, 5, adapted to fit over and bear upon a fence-wire, and a hook, 6, which is adapted to engage the same wire and prevent that end of the frame to which it is connected from being drawn away from the wire, as will be hereinafter particularly explained.

Secured to the connecting-bar, 3, is a stirrup, 7, between the parallel arms of which is rotatably mounted a spool, 8, to hold the wire, 9, for forming the stays; said wire extending through a guide, 10, in one arm of the U- shaped bar adjacent to the yoke 5. Said guide consists of a perforation formed in the arm of .the bar 2, substantially in the horiclaimzontal plane of the under or inner side of the In Fig. 1 I have shown the device applied to a fence, as seen when weaving the stays, and referring thereto, 11 indicates the horizontal fence wire or strands with which the yoke 5 and hook 6 are engaged to mount the weaver, rotatably, upon the fence; and 12 represents the stay after being secured in position and coiled at each intersection around the fence-wires.

After applying the device to a Wire, as indicated, the extremity of the wire, 9, is held in contact with the fence-wire and the frame is rotated to coil or twist the former around thelatter. The tension produced by drawing the wire through the guide, which causes a right-angle bend of said wire, prevents the wire from feeding more rapidly than is desired, and at the same time holds the front end of the apparatus, or that end adjacent to the coil and having the yoke 5, in engage-c ment with the fence wire, the tendency of the other or rear end of the frame to rise or draw away from the fence-wire being resisted by the hook 6. After the first twist has been formed, to secure the end of the stay-wire, the device is disengaged from the fence-wire and attached, in like manner, to the next lower or upper fence-wire, and the operation continued as before.

Being simple in construction the twister is not liable to need repair.

The guide perforation is flared toward the spool to enable a barbed wire to pass therethrough with facility.

The above-described arrangement of the wire-guide in the plane of that side of the spool from which the wire extends allows the wire to feed freely and without binding in the guide.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I

In a device of the class described,'the combination of a frame having parallel arms, one verse to the line of the fence wire or runner, 1c of which is provided with a wire-guide and substantially as specified.

terminates in a yoke 5, which is adapted to In testimony that I claim the foregoing as straddle a fence wire or runner, and the other my own I have hereto affixed my signature in of which terminates in a hook 6, which is the presence of two witnesses.

adapted to engage under said fence wire or ISAAC V. ADAIR. runner to resist an outward pull upon that Witnesses:

end of the frame, and aspooi jonrnaled with- MORRIS R. BROWN,

in the frame with its axis arranged trans- IDA BELLE AMBROSE.

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