US802547A - Tightener for brace-rods. - Google Patents

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US802547A US27030305A US1905270303A US802547A US 802547 A US802547 A US 802547A US 27030305 A US27030305 A US 27030305A US 1905270303 A US1905270303 A US 1905270303A US 802547 A US802547 A US 802547A
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    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
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  • the object of this invention is to provide means for tightening diagonal brace-rods as, for instance, the crossed brace-rods in windmill-towers, to which this invention particularly relates.
  • Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of a windmilltower having the brace-rods thereon tightsued by means of my improvement.
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged section, at the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1, of parts there shown.
  • Fig. 3 is a full-sized isometrical detail view of the clampbody of the tightener.
  • A represents angle-iron corner-posts of a windmill-tower.
  • B represents angle-iron cross -girths securely connecting them together.
  • O represents crossed brace-rods (attached at their opposite ends by means of bolts or rivets I) to the adjacent and opposite corner-posts A) drawn tensely by applying force to their middle portions and forcing them in opposite directions in a plane parallel to their points of attachment 1).
  • E is the clamp-body of a tightener having a substantially X-shaped recess E therein to admit a brace-rod O, placed obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug E to engage the downwardly-projecting member F of an angleiron cross-girth B.
  • G is a d-bolt engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projecting member H of such crossgirth B and extending through a transverse hole I in the clamp-body E.
  • J is a nut applied to the threaded straight shank K of the d-bolt G to secure the bracerod 0 into the recess E in the clamp-body E.
  • brace-rods C are forced simultaneously in opposite directions until they are as tense as is desired and are then secured in such tense condition to the contiguous cross-girth B. They may be forced inward with identically the same results. Obviously whenever it is desired at any time to retighten any or all of the brace-rods C it can be done with ease and despatch.
  • a clamp-body having a substantially X-shaped recess therein to admit a brace-rodplaced obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug to engage the downwardly-projecting member of an angleiron cross-girth, a iJ-bolt engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projecting member of such cross girth and extending through a transverse hole in the clamp-body and a nut applied to the threaded straight shank of the iJ-bolt to secure a brace-rod into the recess in the clamp-body and the latter to such crossgirth, substantially as described.
  • a clamp-body E having a substantially X-shaped recess E therein to admit a brace-rod, as O placed obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug E to engage the member F of an angleiron cross-girth, a tl-bolt G engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projeeting member H of such cross-girth and extending through a transverse hole I in the clamp-body E, and a nut J applied to the U-bolt to secure a bracerod, as G, into the recess E in the clampbody E and the latter to such crossgirth, substantially as described.

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PATENTED OUT. 24, 1905.
J. A. AUE.
TIGHTENER FOR BRAGE RODS.
APPLICATION FILED JULY 18,1905.
W? edwymx FATE "I OlE.
JOHN A. AUE, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HARRISON VVOODMANSE, OF FREEPORI, ILLINOIS.
TIGHTENER FOR BRACE-RODS.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Oct. 24:, 1905.
Application filed July 18, 1905. Serial No. 270,303.
To all 'I/U/l/O'I'H/ it 171,041 0071 06772,:
Be it known that I, JOHN A. AUn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tighteners for Brace-Rods, of which the following is a speci lication.
The object of this invention is to provide means for tightening diagonal brace-rods as, for instance, the crossed brace-rods in windmill-towers, to which this invention particularly relates.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a section of a windmilltower having the brace-rods thereon tightsued by means of my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section, at the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1, of parts there shown. Fig. 3 is a full-sized isometrical detail view of the clampbody of the tightener.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
A represents angle-iron corner-posts of a windmill-tower. B represents angle-iron cross -girths securely connecting them together.
O represents crossed brace-rods (attached at their opposite ends by means of bolts or rivets I) to the adjacent and opposite corner-posts A) drawn tensely by applying force to their middle portions and forcing them in opposite directions in a plane parallel to their points of attachment 1).
E is the clamp-body of a tightener having a substantially X-shaped recess E therein to admit a brace-rod O, placed obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug E to engage the downwardly-projecting member F of an angleiron cross-girth B.
G is a d-bolt engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projecting member H of such crossgirth B and extending through a transverse hole I in the clamp-body E. J is a nut applied to the threaded straight shank K of the d-bolt G to secure the bracerod 0 into the recess E in the clamp-body E.
After the parts of the tightener have been put together in the manner already described the brace-rods C are forced simultaneously in opposite directions until they are as tense as is desired and are then secured in such tense condition to the contiguous cross-girth B. They may be forced inward with identically the same results. Obviously whenever it is desired at any time to retighten any or all of the brace-rods C it can be done with ease and despatch.
Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
1. In a tightener for brace-rods, in combination, a clamp-body having a substantially X-shaped recess therein to admit a brace-rodplaced obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug to engage the downwardly-projecting member of an angleiron cross-girth, a iJ-bolt engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projecting member of such cross girth and extending through a transverse hole in the clamp-body and a nut applied to the threaded straight shank of the iJ-bolt to secure a brace-rod into the recess in the clamp-body and the latter to such crossgirth, substantially as described.
2. In a tightener for brace-rods, in combination, a clamp-body E, having a substantially X-shaped recess E therein to admit a brace-rod, as O placed obliquely thereinto and provided with an upwardly-extending lug E to engage the member F of an angleiron cross-girth, a tl-bolt G engaging the free edge of the outwardly-projeeting member H of such cross-girth and extending through a transverse hole I in the clamp-body E, and a nut J applied to the U-bolt to secure a bracerod, as G, into the recess E in the clampbody E and the latter to such crossgirth, substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.
JOHN A. AUE. lVitnesses:
G. E. S'ruENRoD, M. A. PUTNAM.
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