US636763A

US636763A - Implement for applying stay-wires to wire fences.

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Publication number: US636763A
Application number: US70625299A
Authority: US
Inventors: James W Connelly
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-02-20
Filing date: 1899-02-20
Publication date: 1899-11-14
Anticipated expiration: 1916-11-14

Description

Patented Nov. l4, I899. J. W. CUNNELLY.

IMPLEMENT FO'WAPPLYING STAY WIRES T0 WIRE FENCES.

(Application filed r66. 20, 1899.) (No Model.)

Invezziar M @77Z6/3 WUOWMGZZ UNTTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES W. OONNELLY, OF POPLAR GROVE, KENTUCKY.

IMPLEMENT FOR APPLYING STAY-WIRES TO WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,763, dated November 14, 1899.

Application filed February 20,1899. Serial No. 706,252. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES W. CONNELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Poplar Grove, in the county of Owen and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Implements for Applying Stay-Wires to Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an implement for applying stay-wires to wire fences, and has for its object to provide a tool of the character described which will be simple, durable, and inexpensive in construction and efficient and expeditions in operation.

To these ends my invention consists in the features and in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described,and particularly pointed outin the claims following the description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a portion of a fence, showing my improved implement applied to one of the strands in position for attaching the stay-wire. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the implement in place on a fence-strand. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central sectional view thereof, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a cylindrical sleeve provided throughout its length with a longitudinal radial slot 2. Formed circumferentially on the sleeve are a number of ratchet-teeth 3, and the end of the sleeve adjacent to said teeth is reduced, as at 4-, and provided with a tangential groove 5, semicircular in cross-section.

The opposite end of the sleeve is provided with two flaring prongs 6 to aid in centering the sleeve on the fence wires or strands, as will be hereinafter explained, and is also provided with two or more radially-projecting teeth 7 and 8. Rotatably fitted over the ratchet portion of the sleeve are two collars 9 and 10, respectively formed or provided with radially-projecting

handles

11 and 12, each provided with knobs 13. The collars 9 and 10 are both slotted radially to correspond with the radial slot in the sleeve and are each provided with

flaring prongs

14 and 15. In the interior of each of the collars 9 and 10 is formed a recess 23, in which is loosely arranged a wedge-shaped block 24, constituting a pawl, the end of said block or pawl being held in engagement with the adjacent ratchet-teeth 3 by a coiled spring 25, seated in the recess 23 beneath the pawl. Fitted over the reduced end 4 of the sleeve 1 is a Washer 16, provided with a slot 17, extending from its center to its circumference, and said washer has formed tangentially in its circumference a slot 18, semicircular in crosssection. A pin 19 is fitted in the slots or

grooves

5 and 18 and operates to hold the washer in place on the reduced end of the sleeve. 7

Fixed on the sleeve 1 in any suitable manner is a bracket 20, in which is adapted to be journaled a spool of wire 21. The wirespool 21 may be removably journaled in the bracket in many obvious different ways; but for the purpose of illustration I have shown the spool journaled on a pin 26, removably fitted in bearings 27, formed in the arms of the bracket.

The operation of my improved implement is as follows: It will be understood that the implement is intended to twist successively about the horizontal strands of a wire fence a vertical stay-wire, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. To apply the strands, the tool or implement is straddled upon one of the horizontal strands of the fence-as, for example, the lowermost-the prongs formed on the sleeve, the handles, and the washer operating to guide the tool onto the wire strand. The end of the Wire wound upon the spool 21 is then led around one of the teeth 7 or 8 and is twisted about or hitched upon the fencestrand by any suitable meansas, for example, by means of a pair of pliers. One of the handles, as 11, is then drawn or oscillated toward the person, thus giving a partial revolution to the sleeve and twisting the staywire 22 about the fence-strand 24. The handle 11 is then pushed away from the person and the handle 12 drawn forward, thus giving to the sleeve another partial revolution and imparting to the stay-wire another twist or convolution about the wire strand. This operation is repeated until a sufficient number of twists or convolutions of the stay-wire have been formed, after which the tool or implement is removed to the next fence-strand and the operation repeated.

By providing two teeth 7 and 8 the staywire may be wound about the fence-strand more or less tightly, as desired, for it will be obvious that by passing the stay-wire around the tooth 8 instead of about the tooth 7 the stay-wire will be bent at a more acute angle, and consequently will be wrapped more tightly about the fence-strand.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radially-projecting tooth or projection, of means fixed on said sleeve for supporting a spool of wire, and means for intermittingly rotating said sleeve, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radially-projecting tooth or projeetion, of a support carried by the sleeve, a wire spool or spindle journaled in said support, and means for imparting to the sleeve an intermittent rotary movement, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radially-projecting tooth, of a support fixed on the sleeve and provided with bearings, a wire-reel journaled in said bearings, and means for rotating the sleeve, substantially as described.

4:. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radially-projecting tooth and having formed circumferentially thereon a plurality of ratchet-teeth, of collars rotatably arranged over the ratchets and each provided with pawls arranged to engage the ratchetteeth, handles for rotating the collars, and a wire-reel supported on the sleeve, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radial] y-projectin g tooth, of a support fixed on the sleeve and provided with bearings, a wire-reel removably journaled in said bearings, and means for imparting to the sleeve an intermittent rotary movement, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a longitudinally and radially slotted sleeve provided at one end with a radially-projecting tooth and having formed circumferentially thereon a plurality of ratchet-teeth, of collars rotatably arranged about the ratchets and each provided with pawls arranged to engage the ratchetteeth, handles for rotating the collars, guides carried by the sleeve and collars for guiding the implement onto the fence-wire,and a Wirereel supported on the sleeve, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAS. \V. CONNELLY.

fitness es:

HENRY OoATEs, W. II. AMES.