US59185A - Improvement in portable fences - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FREDERICK o. oLAss, or EoANoKE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

' Specilication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 59,1 S5, dated October 230, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. CLAss, of Roanoke, in the county of Huntington and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved method of constructing a cheap and durable fence, particularly applicable for extensive ield-inclosures; and I do hereby declare the following to be a true and full description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this speoitication, with the letters marked thereon, in which- A, Figure 1, is a bracing-post, conveniently formed of four pieces of inch-tl1iek boards, two uprights several inches in width at the bottom and tapering to the top, and two pieces placed horizontally upon the ground, of the length of about four feet, and in width of, say, six or eight inches, and cut off slopingat the ends, between which the two uprights are firmly secured with pins or nails.

B indicates the extensionpanel, which is formed of, say, thirty pieces, more or less, according to the neness of the felice intended, and for a good and substantial fence the pieces need not be more than two inches in width and half an inch in thickness, and in length to suit the height of the intended fence, the

material being all of the same width and thickness. rIhe panels are constructed after the form of diamond-shaped lattice, the peculiarity being that the longitudinal supports (four on each side) are placed on the outside of the lattice instead of the lattice bein gfnailed upon them. The whole is secured together by nails. driven at each crossing of the timber.

A corner-post is formed, as seen in the drawf ings at C, bynailin g a strip of thick board on the end of the panels designed to form the corner, so as to form a hook or flange, by means of which the two panels are joined, as seen in the drawings. The pieces ot' boards forming the post end of the panels should be made ot' inch-thick lumber.

In setting up this fence, the panels are secured to the brace-posts by means of a wooden lock, which is inserted through the aperture between the parts forming the end of the panel, thus securing its connection with the post, as seen at D.

The aforesaid lock is made of two pieces of board about eight inches in length by four inches in width, each one of which, being firmly fixed to the inner edge of one ot' the two uprights forming the brace-post, unites the two parts' of the post when combined with the standing panel, giving them the strength of a solid post. The succeeding panels are joined to the posts in the same manner, the whole being made fast by an iron key or bolt passing through the three upright timbers of the end of the panel and through the lock, asis shown also at D.

I claim- 1. 'Ihe brace-post, in combination with its lock and key; also, the corner-post, in combination with the panel, as described.

2. The lattice-panel with supportingbars, as giving greater strength as a fence.

3. The peculiar construction of the lock and key, in combination with the brace-post, essentially as described.

FREDERICK C. GLASS. Attest:

W. K. WINDLE, A. A. BOW'EN.

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