US732190A - Wire-fence-stay fastener. - Google Patents

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No. 732,190. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903. G. KANAVEL.

WIRE FENCE STAY FASTENER.

APPLICATION rum) SEPT. 25, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTED STATES PATENT Patented June 30, 1903.

OFFICE.

CHARLES KANAVEL, OF BARBERTON, OHIO.

WIRE-FENCE-STAY FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,190, dated June 30,1903. Application filed $epten1ber 25, 1902\ Serial No. 124,881. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES KANAVEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Wire- Fence-Stay Fastener,'of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire fences, more tudinal strand-wires spaced apart and connected at suitable intervals to vertical posts or other supports and also provided at suitable intervals between the posts with vertical stay-wires, generally of the same gage as the strand-wires, and has for its object the production of a simply-constructed lockingclip adapted to be forcibly engaged to the strand and stay wires at their intersecting points; and the invention consists in a locking-clip of a substantially U shape and adapted to be attached to the fence with the looped portion of the clip engaging the strand-wire in alinement with the stay-wire and with theextremities of the clip reduced and bent into engagement with the stay-wire and also with the body of the clip.

The invention further consists in a lockingclip of substantially U shape having reduced extremities and adapted to embrace the strand-wire by its looped end opposite the stay-wire and be compressed thereon with sufficient force to cause the clip to indent the strand-wire and with the leg members bent around the stay-wire with sufficient force to cause the leg members to indent the staywire and with the reduced extremities in engagement with the body of the clip adjacent to the strand-wire.

Other novel features of the invention will be disclosed in the annexed description and a be specified in the claim following.

In'the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 is a plan view, Fig. 3 is a side view, and Fig.4 is a rear View, of a section of a strand-wire and a section of a stay-wire with the improved lockingclip applied thereto. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detached view of the clip before it is bent into position upon the fence.

The strand-wires are indicated at 10, and the stay-wires at 11, crossing each other at right angles, as shown.

tightly stretched and connected to supporting-posts at suitable intervals in the ordinary manner. The stay-wires will be disposed at suitable intervals between the posts or other supports. particularly to that class formed with longi- The supporting-posts and the plurality of strand-wires and stay-wires are not shown in the drawings, as they form no part of the present invention.' Any required number of the strand-wires and stay-wires may be employed and varied both as to number and distance apart. I do not, therefore, wish to be limited in any manner to the size of the wire employed or to the number of the strand or stay wires. v

The improvement which is the subject of the present application consists in a device for locking the strand and stay wires at their intersections, and one of these improved de- Jvices is illustrated in Fig. 5 disconnected from the fence and isin the form of a U- shaped clip with spaced side members 12 13,-

the curved connecting portion 14, and with the reduced extremities 15 16.

In applying the improved device the looped portion 14 of the clip is placed upon the strand-wire opposite the point where it crosses the stay-wire, so that three portions 1O 11 14 will be arranged in transverse aline ment. The leg members 12 13 will then be 'bent around the stay-wire upon opposite sides of the strand-wire and in close proximity there to and the reduced ends 15 16 brought into contact with the body portion of the clip close to the strand-wire, so that the clip member firmly embraces and connects the strand and stay wires at their intersecting points. Any suitableimplement may be employed for thus forcibly bending the clip around the strand and stay wires; but as such implements are in common use and form no part of the pres ent invention they are not illustrated, and I do not, therefore, wish to be limited to the employment of any particular tool or implement for bending the clips.

The implement employed for bending the clips will possess sufficient force to cause them to indent the strand-wires and staywires where the clips come in contact therewith, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, so that when the parts are connected they will be held relatively immovable and effectually prevented from all play and lateral movement. This is an important feature of the invention and adds materially to the efficiency of the lock between the parts, as a joint is thereby formed which very firmly supports the strand-wire upon the stay-wire and likewise supports the stay-wire upon the strand-wire and effectually prevents any relative movement between them either laterally or vertically.

The arrangement whereby the looped portion 14 of the clip comes in the transverse plane of the strand-wires and stay-wires at their crossing-points, together with the leg members 13 12, bent into close engagement with the strand and stay wires, and the reduced ends 15 16, carried around and forcibly engaged with-the body of the clip in close proximity to and upon opposite sides of the strand-wire, is also a very important feature of the invention, as the lock between the parts is thereby greatly strengthened and stiffened and all danger of lateral or vertical movement efiectually prevented. I

In fences and similar structures of the character to which the present invention is applicable the strand-Wires aremore liable to displacement than the stay-wires, as ani mals or persons in attempting to pass the fence naturally exert their force to distend or break down the strand-wires in preference to moving the stay-wires.

The lateral movement of the stay-wires to a limited extent will not affect the-integrity of the fence, whereas even a very slight move? ment of the strand-wires relative to the staywires might be a very serious matter, especially in fences forming inclosuresfor small animals. Theimportance,therefore,offirmly sustaining and supporting the strand-wires from movement relative. to the stay-wires is apparent.

In the present improved device it will be noted that the stay-wires are engaged at two points by the spaced leg members 12 13-01 the clips, so that the grip of the clips upon the stay-wires is just double the grip of the same upon the strand-wires. Hence the tendency of the movement of the strand-wires upon the staywires is resisted much more strongly than the tendency of movement of the stay-wires upon the strand-wires. The

strand-wires will thus be enabled to successfully resist any tendency to movement upon the stay-wires, while at the same time the stay-wires will be supported with ample force and enabled to resist any pressure to which they will be subjected. By this simple arrangement, therefore, the grip or pressure of the locking-clip is so distributed as to offer the greatest resistance at points where most required and where the greatest strains are liable to occur. It will also be noted that the grip members are formed from comparatively short sections of wire, thereby reducing the expense in that particular.

The clip members will preferably be of harder metal than the strand and staywires, such as comparatively hard steel, so thatthey will form the indentations required in the strand and stay wires when compressed thereon, as above described.

The clip members may be constructed very cheaply and manufactured entirely by machinery, thus reducing the expense and labor required to produce them.

The improved device may be applied to any of the various forms offence and similar structures wherein wires are employed transversely disposed and will be found very useful and efficient for the purposes enumerated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1 looped end of the clip to prevent accidental deflection and displacement of said free end.

In testimony that I- claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- CHARLES KANAVEL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. AMMERMAN, H. HERMAN.

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