US798685A - Wire fence. - Google Patents

Description

No. 798,685. PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905. T. LITWILLER.

WIRE FENCE,

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WIRE FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed September 14. 1903. Serial NI. 173,058.

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Be it known that I, Tnonas LrrwILLnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Treinont, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vire Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to wire fencing or wire-fence fabrics.

It comprises in its structure a fence similar to that shown in my application filed November 15, 1902, Serial No. 131,401, wherein a fabric is formed of body-wires and sclvagestrands. and connected or intertwisted with the body-wires and sclvage-strands are staywires that bear diagonally to the body of the fence and are inter-twisted with the selvage and body wires where they intersect alternatelyover and under. In the application re ferred to the twists of the stays with the body and selvage wires are always in the same directionthat is. the twist is a continuous right or left twist.

The objectwhich I. have in view in the present invention is to construct a fence fabric lnrving stays bearing diagonally to the body of the fence and at the intersection of the body and selvage wires intertwisted or interlocked therewith with a right-and-left twist or vice versa.

Further objects and aims of the invention will appear from the following specification, claim,and accompanying drawings.in which Figure 1, drawn to a small scale, shows a strip of fence embodying my improvements as it appears when placed in the field. Fig. 2, drawn to a larger scale, shows more clearly the detail construction of the fence.

The fence comprises what will be hereinafter known as the selvagc-wires 1 and the bodywires" 2, arranged at suitable intervals apart from ach other intermediate the selvagewires to present a uni form or graduated mesh, as may be desired. 3 indicates stays, preferably of wire. spaced at suitable intervals apartand adapted to bcintertwisted or interlocked with the selvage and body wires, which together comprise my improved fencing.

The selvagewires are shown as single strands; but it is to be understood that a suitable cable-strand may be employed and the invention carried out as herein provided.

As indicated, the stays 3 bear diagonally across the body and selvage wires.

At the intersection of each of above-said wires the stays are interlocked thercwith--that is, the stays are gripped, together with the body and selvage wires, at at to form the parallel plain portion of the stay and body or selvage wires and the action of the shuttle, spool, or coiler carrying the stay or engaging the stay and body wire or sclvage is to intertwist or interlock the wires to form a rightand-left (or left-and-right) twist upon opposite sides of the gripped or plain portions. The nature of the twist or lock .of the wires is to produce a twist which shall be. longer upon one side of the gripped or plain portion 4 than upon the opposite side. as seen in Fig. 2. In carrying out the invention the stay-wires are directed alternately over and under the intersecting strand-wires, so as to form an interlock with said strands first in a direction right and left and alternately left and right. This alternate arrangement is accomplished by rotating the shuttle or spools first in one direction and then in an opposite direction.

\Vhere the ends of the stays leave the spools or shuttles or are cut after completing their required interlock. the end of such stay is directed longitudinally along the salvage and in juxtaposition thereto, as at A better understamling of the diagonal of the stay-wires and their alternate interlocking in reverse directions with the intersecting strainl-wires will be had from the following: Follow the complete stay in Fig. 1 (indicated as H) leading from the lower selvage-wire 1. The said stay is interlocked with the selvagcwire for a portion of its length. It is then led diagonally and in advance of its interlock with said selvage-wire to the adjacent intermediate strainl-wire Qand interlocked therewith in a reverse direction to the interlock of the sclvage-wire. The stay-wire is then led diagonally to the next adjacent intermediate strand-wire in manner as before and continued to be so led until it coincides with the upper sclvage-wire. As before stated, the interlocking of the stay-wire with the intersecting strand and selvage wires being alternately right and left and left and right. in the completion of a stay the same bears diagonally from selvage to sel urge-wires and formsan are between their ends. substantially as seen in Fig. 'I.

It is understood, as in the application rcfcrrcd to, to manufacture a fencing which may be produced at a minimum cost and delivered from the machine operated to produce a continuously-made fabric.

1 am aware that the interlocking or intertwisting of one or more wires having a rightand-left twist is not new; but this is in a fabric having a hexagonal mesh where the bodywires are fed longitudinally and in a sinuous line; but I do not know of a stay-fence Where the stays are carried diagonally across the fabric and interlocked with the body and selvage Wires at their intersection which produces a fabric having substantially a rectangular mesh.

The operation of a machine to produce such a fabric as herein shown is vastly different to those which produce a hexagonal mesh, and neither could be made upon the other machine. Likewise in the application referred to the mode of interlocking the diagonal stay is entirely different from those which produce a continuous twist all in the same direction. As the stays bear diagonally across the fabric so are the twists measured along the wiresin the same longitudinal direction. By directing the stays diagonally and forming an interlocked twist at the intersection of the strand-wires l form a mesh with the short liquely across the body-wires from selvagewire to selvage-wire, adjacent stays extending approximately parallel and at each succeeding point of intersection with the rselva'ge and body wires intertwisted therewith by a right-and-left intertwist and alternately by a left-and-right intertwist and having the twists measured along the body and selvage wires in the same direction.

In testimony whereof laflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS LITVVILLER.

\Vitness es:

CHAs. W. LA FORTE, A. B. LA Pon'rn.

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