US588774A - Wire fence - Google Patents

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J. O. PERRY.

WIRE FENCE No. 588,774. Patented Aug. 24,1897.

L d l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN C. PERRY, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

w|RE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 588,774, dated August 24, 1897.

Application filed February 10, 1897. Serial No. 6221734- (N0 m m To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. PERRY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at J oliet, in the county of fill and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences, of which the following is a specificatiou,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figures 1' to 8, inclusive, are views of various types of barbed 'wire, representing the barbs attached to the strand wire or wires by means of electric welding.

This invention relates to certain improvements in wire fences, wherein barbs are attached to strand-wires by means of electric welding, which improvements are fully set forth and described in the following specification and pointed out in the claim.

The object of this invention is to permanently attach the barbs to the strand-wires of the fence,and, further, to economize in the use of wire.

Other types of barbed wire not necessary to be illustrated are as well included in this invention.

Referring to said drawings, A represents the strand-wire, either single or cabled, and- B the barbs attached to said strands.

Fig. 1 represents a straight piece of barbed wire welded to a single-strand wire; Fig. 2, a

barb coiled about a single-strand wire; Figs. 3, 4, and 5, a barb attached to either a single or cabled strand by means of a plate or strip 0, placed against the strand at the side opposite the barb and welded to the barb through points indicated at w 'w in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents either straight or coiled barbs attached to a cabled strand; Fig. 7, a cabled strand having one wire thereof smaller than its fellow wire and with straight barbs welded to the smaller wire, in which construction the wires of the strand may be hard and the strength of the larger wire not impaired by being annealed at the points of attaching barbs, as would be the result should the welding of the barbs be made to said larger wire; and Fig. 8 represents the manner in which electrodes F and G grasp the barbs and strand-wires during the time of welding.

Any suitable means may be employed for operating the electrodes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A fence wire having barbs electrically welded thereto, substantially as set forth.

J oliet, Illinois, February 8, 1897.

JOHN C. PERRY.

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