US709749A - Combination-tool for manipulating wire. - Google Patents

Description

No. 709,749. I E. C. COL-LEN.

COMBINATION TOOL FOR MANIPULATING WIRE.)v

Patented Sept. .23, I902.

(Application filed Feb. 8. 1902.]

(No Model.)

INVENTOI"? 127M272 C7014 ZZm v WITNESSES llirnn States EDWIN O. OULLEN, OF COLORADO, TEXAS.

COMBINATION-TOOL FOR MANIPULATING WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,749, dated September 23, 1902 Application filed February 8, 1902. Serial No. 93.161. (No model.)

To (1, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. OULLEN, a citizen of the United States. and a resident of Colorado, in the county of Mitchell and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and Improved Oo1nbination-Tool for Manipulating Wire, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to wire-forming implements, and more particularly to a convenient hand-tool for bonding, straightening, shortening, and otherwise n'lai'lipulating the wires ordinarily used in the construction of fences.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my device. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevation showing one edge of the tool and its appurtenances, and Figs. 2-3 and 4 are fragmentary elevations showing the opposite edge of the tool in use.

The tool can be made of any suitable material and of any desired size; but I preferably make it of steel and of the size indicated in the drawings. A longitudinal head (blS provided with a handle I) and with a bifurcated claw c of the type sometimes designated as a coWs foot. A cylindrical boss dis integrally mounted upon the head a, and at right angles to this boss is a substantially cylindrical member 6, provided with a slotf, the same constituting a former for wire. A similar member g, provided with a similar slot 71, constitutes another former, the two formers being so arranged that the slots are in alinement. A longitudinal arm 1' is disposed at right angles to the head a, and a link 70 engagesahook Z, mounted upon said arm. Upon the free end of the link 76 is 'a longitudinal combm, which is used for the purpose of temporarily securing a wire, as hereinafter described; A strap of leather n is loosely pivoted upon a hook 0 on the comb m and is free to engage or disengage a hook 19 on the head a. This strap of leather is for the purpose of normally holding the comb m in the closed position (indicated in Fig. 1) when the comb is not in active use. The head a, taken together with the handle Z) and the longitudinal arm 1', constitutes an L-shapcd lever.

. The tool can be used in various ways. For instance, if it be desired to splice a broken wire the ends of the wire are brought into the slots h of the formers eg, and the tool is revolved bodily around, so as to bend the wire back upon itself, as indicated in Fig. 4. In doing this a little skill is necessary, as the wires must be broughtupon the same side of the tool; otherwise it will be difficult to make the splice. Where it is desired to merely take up the slack of the loose wire, the tool is placed upon the wire and then twisted bodily around, bringing the wire into the position indicated in Fig. 8. The splice can readily be effected with the wire in this position. If it be desired to pull the wire bodily endwise toward a fence-post, this may be done in the following manner: The comb m is released by unhooking the leather strap 12. Then the end of theloose wire is dropped into the slot e, and the Wire is carried once or twice around the longitudinal arm t'and then around the cylindrical former (Z, so as to have the wire thor oughlysecured upon the tool. Then using the tool as a lever it is placed against the post, the cylindrical former (1 being used as a fulcrum, and then thehandle is borne upon until the wire is pulled around as tightly as desired. Thehandlebis moved around untilthe comb m can be brought into engagement with the tightened wire and hooked over the same, and the tool now being released will hold the wire temporarily for any desired purpose. The bifurcated claw c is used for taking up short splices, as indicated in Fig. l.

The above instances are only a few of the many ways in which this tool can be used to advantage. Several other uses will suggest themselves to people skilled in the art to which the invention relates.

The formers e and g may be used separately for tightening the wire and for making splices shorter than those made with the cows foot 0.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A combination tool for manipulating wire, comprising a handle, a bifurcated claw,

' a plurality of formers providedwith slots'for A combination-tool for manipulating Wire, comprising a longitudinal member provided with a handle, and with a pair of substantially cylindrical formers disposed parallel with each other and provided with slots, said slotsbeing in alinement, and also provided with a cylindrical boss disposed with its axis at a right angle to the axes of the said cylindrical formers.

4. A combinationtool for manipulating wire, comprising a lever made of two longitudinal members disposed at right angles to each other, one of said members being provided with a comb flexibly connected therewith, and the other being provided with a bifurcated claw, a cylindrical boss,-a pair of substantially cylindrical formers provided with slots, said slots being in alinement with each other and all for manipulating wire, and a fastening for temporarily securing said comb in'a folded position when the same is not in active use.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN G. CULLEN.

Witnesses:

L. E. LASSETER, A. A. DORN.

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