US739798A - Wire-fence fabric. - Google Patents

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.No. 739,798] P-ATB EB smmzz, 19-03.

' I. L. LA DIN.

WIRE FENCE FABRIC.

APPLIOATIOH FILED SEPT. 9, 1902.

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yxxxxxr No. 739,798. PATENTBD 833122, 1903.

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WIRE PENGE'FABRIG.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.IoI-IN L. OLAUDIN, or MORTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO INTERLOOKING FENCE OOMPANY, OF MORTON, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

wins-Francs FABRlC.-' r v 7 I SPECIIEICLAJI'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,798, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed September 9 19 02 erial No. 122,686. (No model.)

Tb all whom it y 0071067? in the salvage-strands are single wires and Be it known that LJOHN L.v CLAUDIN, a with two longitudinal or horizontal strandcitizen of the United States, residing at Morwires which are interlocked with the meshton, in the county of Tazewell and State of wires at each side. Fig. 3 is a view showing Illinois, have invented certain new and usea strip of fencing in outline embodying my 55 ful Improvements in Wire-Fence Fabrics; improvement wherein the selvage strands and I do hereby declare that the following is are single wires and showing horizontal or a full, clear, and exact description of the inlongitudinal strand-wires extending across vention, which will enable others skilled in each hexagonal mesh and interlocked with the art to which it appertains to make and the adjacent interlocked mesh wires. Fig. 60 use the same. 4 is an enlarged detail showing the manner This invention has reference to awirefence of interlocking two wires as they appear in fabric and to that type of fence wherein'the elevation. Fig. 5 is a plan of Fig. 4:- Fig. meshes are of hexagonal form, and the appli- 6 is an enlarged detail showing the manner of cation herein is an improvement upon that interlocking two mesh-wires and an inter- 65 fabric shown in my application bearing Semediate strand-wire as they appear in elevarial No. 86,269, and I have incorporated in tion. Fig. 7 is a plan of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is an this case the structure therein shown for the enlarged detail showing the manner of inter purpose of illustration only. V locking two mesh-wires and an intermediate The invention has for its further object to strand-wire as they appear in the fabric and 70 provide one or more body-wires or intermeopposite to the interlock of the wires shown diate strands through the body of, the fabric in Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail showwhich are interlocked throughout their length ing the manner of interlocking adjacent meshwith adjacent mesh-wires of the fabric, which wires of the fabric with the sewage-strands are themselves interlocked and which form thereof when the selvage is a cable. 75 the hexagonal mesh. The said strands where The figures may be better understood from they are employed in the fabric pass through the following: Fig. 4 is a detail of the fabric each hexagonal mesh and are interlocked; as the same would appear in the block surwith the wires forming said mesh at the points rounded by the dotted lines a a ofFig. 2, or

of interlocking thereof. as it would appear in the block surrounded 80 It is further provided to interlock the adby the dotted lines I) 12 of Fig. 2, dotted lines jacent wires formingeach mesh which lie in being added to Fig. 4 for the purpose of illusthe same vertical plane, first, with a right trating the direction in which the lines would and left hand twist, and next with a left and appear if taken from that portion of the fab- 5 right hand twistthat is, the adjacent mesh- -ric bounded by the dotted lines I) b, as sug- 85 wires of the fabric throughout its height and gested. Fig. 5 is adetail of the fabric as the length are interlocked, first, right and left, same would appear in the block surrounded and then left and right, and so on throughout by the dotted lines o c of Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is a the length of the fabric. detail of the fabric as the same would appear 40 That my invention may be more fully unin the block surrounded by the dotted lines 0 derstood reference is had to the accompanyd d, of Fig. 3, which illustrates the alternate ing drawings, forming a part of this specifiform of interlocking adjacent mesh-wires with cation, in whichastrand of the fabric. Fig. 9 is a detail of Figure 1 is aview showing a strip of fencing the fabric as the same would appear in the 5 inoutlineembodying myimprovementwhereblock surrounded by the dotted lines 6 e of. 5

in the selvage-strands are cable-wires and Fig. 1. with a horizontal strand-wire shown exteud- I have shown from a description of the figing through the central body of the fence. ures that the selvage-strands of the fabric Fig. 2 is a figure showing a strip of fencing may be single wires or a'cable, and in the figin outline embodying myimprovement whereures, lindicates the upper selvagestrand, and mo 2 the lower selvage-strand, of a fabric. The mesh-wires are indicated as 3 and 4, which at intervals throughout the length of the fabric are interlocked with each other at 5, and the mesh-wires adjacent to the selvage-strands are interlocked atintervals therewith, as at 6.

The manner of forming the hexagonal mesh herein illustrated is known to the trade, and it is not necessary to go into detail herein, and while the form of meshthat is, a hexagonal meshis old I believe it is new to interlock the Wires and to form a fabric such as I illustrate and describe.

7 indicates a horizontal strand-wire extended longitudinally through the fabric, and at points of interlocking; 5, of the mesh-wires with each other the wire 7 is interlocked therewith. These wires may be placed as shown in Figs. 1, 2, or 3, or at any point intermediate the selvage-strands, as may be desired, and it is here that I want to call particular attention to the manner of interlocking the mesh-wires with the adjacent mesh-wires upon one side thereof and then with the other. For instance, the interlocking of the wires through the line or so of Fig. 3, wewill say, is right and left and the next succeeding interlocking of the Wires through the line 3 y is left and right, orjust opposite to the previous lock, according to which side of the fence you are examining.

Referring to Fig. 4, which for the purpose of illustration may be taken as an interlock of the selvage-strands of one wire with the adjacent mesh-wire thereto of the fabric, or in dotted lines as an interlock of adjacent mesh- wires 3 and 4 in the body of the fabric. On this view, as well as in Fig. 5, I have placed the numerals 3 and 4 upon the wires throughout the interlocking thereof to show their relation.

Fig. 6 is a detail of the wires 3 and 4 and the intermediate strand-wires 7, all three of which are interlocked together, and the Wires throughout their interlocking are designated by their proper numerals to show their relation, and. the wires 7 are provided with the slightly-curved portions 8 adjacent to the point of interlocking with the mesh-wires for the purpose of allowing sufficient contraction and expansion of the body of the fabric during extreme hot or cold weather.

In Fig. 8 is shown a detail of that part of the fabric composed of wires 3, 4, and 7, interlocked just opposite to that shown in Fig. 6, Fig. 6 showing the wires interlocked as they would appear in the fabric through the lines x as, Fig. 3, and Fig. 8 showing the wires interlocked as they would appear in the fabric through the lines y y. In Fig. 6 the wires 3 appear going under and'the wires 4going over, with the wires 7 entering between the same, and in Fig. 8 the wires appearjust opposite, the wire 3 going over and the wire 4 going under, with the wire 7 entering between the same and just opposite to that shown in Fig. 6.

In Fig. 9 the selvage-strands are here shown as a cable with the wires next thereto interlocked therewith. When interlocking what is known as a cable selvage-strand with an adjacent. mesh-wire of the fabric, the wires are fed and gripped similar to the manner in which the wires 3, 4, and 7 are fed and gripped with the exception that as the three wires (two of which form the cable and the other forming one of the mesh-wires of the body of the fabric) are interlocked and at the point of finishing of such interlocking the wires which are to form the cable are twisted together in the form of an ordinary twist that is, a twist running in one direction only and continued to a point where it is again desired to interlock the mesh-wires of the fabric next thereto therewith when the cabletwisting devices, are stopped and the interlocking devices brought into play.

I am aware that patents have been granted for a wire-netting formed from continuous wires interlocked at intervals by twists which severally comprise, first, a right-hand twist, and then a left-hand twist; also, that this same form of netting has been made where selvage-wires have been connected with outer wires of the fabric passed bodily around the selvage-wires; also, that where the continuous wires have been connected with a rightand-left turn to the nearest wire on each side that an eye has been left in the center where the interlocking of the mesh-Wires is made through which a horizontal or vertical Wire is carried together therewith forming a part of the fabric. I am also aware that it is not new to interlock continuous and adjacent mesh-wires where there is provided an intermediate plain portion between the points of interlocking. I am further aware that it is not new to provide a fabric with meshes having substantially the same form as mine, but wherein the twists have been in but one direction only; but in my fabric special stress is laid upon the right-and-left twists at intervals the width of the fabric on lines :20 a: and the left-and-right twists on lines 3 y of Fig. 3. Special stress is. also laid upon the fact that the intermediate and horizontal meshwires are interlocked with the wires 3 and 4 and {that the last-mentioned wires are not connected with the horizontal being passed bodily around the same or the horizontal wires carried through eyelets formed by or during the interlocking, and attention is again called to the selvage-strands comprising a cable the wires of which are interlocked duringthe period of forming the cable with the wires of the fabric next thereto.

wires eitherby.

In the drawings is illustrated a wire fabric do not wish to limit myself to such a showing, as it may be desirable to make this fabric with a uniform mesh, nor do I wish to limit myself to any specified number of horizontal strandwires intermediate the selvage-strands. It

is to be noted, however, that the employment bottom body-wires of the fabric by reverse 7 twists to form cable selvage-strands, and horizontal strand-Wires extending through the :5 meshes of the fabric and intertwisted with the body-wires-at the point of intersection therewith, substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

J OHN L. CLAUDIN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. W. LA FORTE, CHAS. F. BAILEY.

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