US741095A - Fence. - Google Patents

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PATENTED'0GT-13, '1903.

No.. 741,095. 1 .y

W. G. BAYLESS & J. S. DALLAS. FENCE.

APPLIUATION FILED APB.. 10. 1903,

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No MODEL'. v

PATENT@ 00113, 1903.

W. C. BAYLBss- J. s.1 DALLAS.

FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1903A NO MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEBKT 2.

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UNITED STATES atented October 13, 1903..

PATENT OEETCE.

WILLIAM C. BAYLESS, OF JEFFERSON CITY, AND JACKSON S. DALLAS, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

j FENCE.

SPCFCATIO forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,095, dated October 13, 190. Application filed IApril 10; 1902i. Serial No; 152,035. (No model.)

'o @ZZ zfton/t may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. BAYLESS, residing at Jeerson City, in the county of Jefferson, and JACKSON S. DALLAS, residingV at KnoXville,KnoX county, State of Tennessee,

citizens ofthe United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fences," ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in fences of the type in which the rails, upright cleats, lateral braces,l and `other component parts are si-icured'tofV gether by means of wire, and the novelty. re#4 sides in the particular manner of wiring thef said parts of the fence together.

It is the object of our invention to provide'V a fence which may be economically constructi ed and which shall be strong and durable and adapted to resist the attack of stock and the force of the wind.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, we have illustrated the saine in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figurel is perspective view illustrating a portion of a fence constructed according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a partial plan view illustrating the manner of wiring employed at the top of the fence.- Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating one form of loop and stay-wires employed at the center of the upright cleats. Fig; s is a transverse sectional view illustrating additional means of binding the rails together. Fig. 5 is a detail View illustrating a modication of the loop and stay-wires shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail view illustrating the manner of wrapping the wire about a stake and adjacent brace, and Fig. 7 is a partial plan view illustrating a modification lof the mannerV of wrapping the top wire about same and twisted at its ends. A cleat 2 is inserted about seven inches at its lower end lthrough the wire loop 5 from opposite direc- Ytions on the respective sides of the fence and 5 5';

thenraised upwardly and toward each other to bring them to an upright position, as

shown, this operation Vpartly twisting the loop 5 and binding the two ends of the lowermost rails l of adjacent panels securely to 6o gether and binding also the lower ends of the cleats rl-firmly against said rails. The end of one rail only may be used in this lower loop and the end of the ground-rail of the adjacent panel forced down upon this after 65 Ythe cleats are raised to Va perpendicular position. Other rails are now placed at their ends one upon the other in the usual manner until, say, three rails have been so arranged, when a loop of wire 6 is now passed around -7o the two cleats 2, the rails being pressed down so as to get the loop 6 as far down on the cleats as possible. The cleats are then drawn lirmly against the rails by means of the loop 6 and the ends of said loop are then twisted. 75 We then iill in two more rails, and then cross the braces 8 over the topxnost rail and bind said braces together at their point of intersection by means of the wire loop 7. The lower ends of these braces are spread apart, 8c so that the crotch formed will rest firmly on the upper rail and their lower ends on the ground. vWe then place the riders 4: in the 'upper crotch of the braces with their ends overlapping, as usual. The braces 3 are de- 85 signed to be secured at each side of the fence to vthe Wire loop 6, and this may be done in one of two ways. The wire loop 6 may be lformed'by wrapping the wire twice around the cleats 2, and the stay-wire 8 may then be 9o secured to the upper strand-wire of the loop at one side of the fence and passed around the braces l3, and a similar stay-wire is secured to the lower strand-wire of the loop and secured to the opposite brace 3, this construc- 9 5 tion insuring that as the fence settles or the braces spread apart the tension on the two strands of the loop 6 exerted by the stay-wires 8 will operate to draw the loop about the cleats 2 more firmly. The second mode of forming ico this connection is illustrated in Fig. 5, in which thewire 9 is passed one and -a half times around the cleats 2 between two of therails and its free ends secured directly to the respective braces on opposite sides of the fence. Thus as the fence settles or the braces 3 spread apart the tension will be directly upon the wire 9, which will operate to draw said wire more firmly about the cleats 2. The fence is now provided with a top securing-wire 10. This upper securing-wire requires to be very strong and is wrapped about the cleats and braces in such manner as lto provide two strands of wire to resist pressure adapted to be exerted thereon, as explained later on.

To this end the wire 10 is passed over one cleat and crossed and placed around the other cleat, and the two strand -wires are then brought together and passed under the upper end of one of the braces 3, that adjacent to the cleats, and are then separated and looped over the upper end of the other brace. A stay-bar 11 is now inserted at its upper end between the wires in the crotch formed by the cleat 2 and the adjacent brace 3 in such manner that two strands of the wire 10 will be on the upperside of said stay-bar and two strands on the lower side, and the opposite end of said stay-bar is then pressed downward and at its lower end secured by a wire 12 to one of the other of the' rails 1. In this operation the tendencywillbe to raise the cleats 2 and press downward the braces 3, thus pressing the parts of the fence more irmly together, while at the same time, owing to the manner of wrapping the wire 10 about the cleats and braces, said cleats will be firmly pressed against the riders 4, said riders will be rmly pressed down in the crotch of the braces 3, and the braces 3 will have their upper ends brought firmly against the riders 4. It is to be observed also that in this movement of the stay-bar 11 there will be no tendency to vary the relative positions of the cleats and braces 3, the tension being exertedv in substantially straight transverselines. Asafurthermeansofbinding the parts of the fence firmly together we may secure to each side of the bottom loop 5 a wire 13, the upper portion of which is wrapped around the upper end of the staybar 11 before the same is turned downward in the manner previously described to bind the wire 10 aboutthe cleats and braces, whereby in this operation the wire 13 will be drawn upward, exerting pressure on the wire loop 5, tending to raise the rails against the resistance of the braces 3, thus binding the overlappingends of the rails more firmly together. In addition the wire 13 tends to hold the loop 5 from slipping downward on the cleats 2, as this loop 5, it will be understood, forms the sole support for the lower rails of the fence.

We have described the construction at one end of a panel; but it will be understood that the opposite end of the panel is constructed in the same way and that the riders and rails of one panel overlap with the riders and rails of the adjacent panel at each end in the usual manner. In order to further stay the fence to prevent its being blown over or knocked over by stock, we may drive into the ground a stake 14 adjacent to each brace 3 in a direction substantially at right angles to the brace, as shown, and then secure the brace to this stake by means of a wire 15, which is passed around the stake and brace in the side crotches formed thereby and is then given one twist and the free ends passed around the stake and brace in the upper and lower crotch, respectively, the ends of the wire being then twisted together. By this manner of securing the brace to the stake all liability of movement of the brace relative to the stake is prevented andthe brace cannot be moved by any pressure or force less than that which would be required to tear the stake bodily from the ground.

In Fig. 7 we have also shown a modification in the manner of arranging the upper securing-wire 10. This differs from the preceding construction simply in the fact that the wire is not crossed between the two cleats 2; but otherwisethe arrangement is the same.

Having thus fully described-our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 and riders 4, of a securing-wire looped over the upper end of one of said braces and around the upper ends of said cleats and having the intermediate double-strand portion passed under the upper end of the other brace, of a stay-bar inserted between the two doublestrands of said securing-wire between one of the cleats and the adjacent brace, and having its lower end turned downward and wired to one of the rails of the fence, for the purpose described.

2. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 and riders 4, of a securing-wire looped about the upper end of one of said bracesl and around the upper ends of said cleats, and crossed between said cleats, and having its intermediate double-strand portion passed under the upper end of the other brace, of a stay-bar having its upper end inserted between the double strands of said securing-wire in the space between one IOO l'IO

of said cleats and the adjacent brace and its l lower end turned downward and wired to one of the rails of the fence, for the purpose described.

3. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 and riders 4, a securingwire passed around the upper ends of said cleats and said braces, a lever having its upper end inserted between the strands of said wire, and a wire connected to the lowermost rails of the fence and to the outer end of said lever, said lever being turned downward at its inner end and wired to one of the rails of the fence whereby to produce a tension on the rail at its outer end and to draw the securingwire rmly about the ends of said cleats and braces.

4. In a fence,the combination with the cleats 2 and the rails having overlapping ends eX- In testimony whereof we have hereunto set :o tending between said cleats, of the bra-ees 3, our hands in presence of two subscribing wita wire passed twice around said cleats benesses.

tween two of the rails and havin@ its ends sev T cured together, and stay-wires seceured at one g' 5S end to one strand of said wire on one side of the fence and on the other side to the other Witnesses:

strand of said wire, the opposite ends of said J. HOMER BLAOKBURY,

stay-wires being secured to said braces. l OHAS. A. TRUASS.

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