US625936A - Wire fence - Google Patents

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Patented May 30, I899.

B. D. MORGAN.

WIRE FENCE.

(Application filed Nov. 5, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN D. MORGAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,936, dated May 30, 1899.

Application filed November 5,1898. Serial No. 695,641. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REUBEN D. MORGAN, of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in fence wire fastenings more especially designed for fastening or clamping together two crossing wires at their intersection.

The object of this invention is to more effectually hold the crossing wires in their relative positions and prevent their displacement independently of each other in any direction.

WVith this object in view and to the end of rendering the fastening simple, durable, and convenient the invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures I and II are views of opposite sides, respectively, of crossing portions of two crossing fence-wires and my improved fastening or look for securing the said wires together at their intersection. Fig. III is a left-hand side elevation relative to Fig. II. Fig. IV is a right-hand side elevation relative to Fig. II. Fig. V is a central vertical section on line V V, Fig. II, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. VI is a top plan relative to Fig. II. Fig. VII is a top'plan in horizontal section on line VII VII, Fig. II.

Referring to the drawings, a and b designate two crossing wires of a fence, and 6 rep- .resents the fastening employed in securing together the said wires at their intersection. In the case illustrated (t represents a vertical wire, and b a horizontal wire. The two wires a and b are, in the main, arranged in the same vertical plane, but at their intersection are somewhat bent laterally and out of the said plane in opposite directions, respectively.

a designates the lateral bend in the Vertical wire, and b represents the lateral bend in the horizontal wire. The bends a and bhug each other closely at their opposing sides. My improved construction involves, also, a wire-fastening plate 6, that is composed, preferably, of sheet metal. The said plate at its central portion is bent as required to form a half-sleeve e, that is bent to conform to the bend b in the horizontal wire and snugly embraces the outer or convex side and extends from end to end of the said bend. Plate 6 at its central portion extends upwardly and downwardly from the half-sleeve or semitubular member 6, so as to form the ears e and e at the upper side and lower side, respec* tively, of member 6. The vertical wire or extends through the perforations e in the ears, and each ear e has its outer end e snugly embracing the said wire adjacent to the convex side of the bend in the wire, so that the wire-fastening plate has two members snugly embracing the wire a at opposite ends, respectively, of the convex side of the wires bend a. It will be observed, therefore, that both wires a and b are effectually prevented from displacement independently of each other in any direction.

What I claim is The combination with two crossing fencewires a and I), having the bends a and b; of the wire-fastening plate having the half-sleeve e; the ears e e perforated as at a and the wire-embracing portions e formed at the outer ends of the said ears.

Signed by me, at Cleveland, Ohio, this 24th day of October, 1898.

REUBEN D. MORGAN.

Witnesses:

A. H. PARRAT'I, O. H. Donna.

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