US814369A - Metal-fence tie. - Google Patents

Description

No. 814,369. PATENTED MAR. e, 1906.

B. GRIFFIN.

METAL mecz: TIE.

APPIIIOA'I'IDE FILED JUNE 16, 1805 Inve nto r.

Att ornys Griff Witnes s I i a??? U NIIED STAT'EQ PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIUNOR, BY

TO ALANSON M. KEENEY, ()F

MESN E ASSIGNMENTS, MICHIGAN.

DIRECT AN D AN N ARBOR.

METAL-FENCE TlE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed June 16, 1905. Serial No. 265,571.

To (LU whom it inlay concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Adrian, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Metal-Fence Tie, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire-locks for interlocking crossed wires, and has been particularly designed for use in connection with wire fences.

It is an important object of the invention to em lo an ordinary U-shaped staple to form t e lock and to interengage the ends of the staple in a simple and improved manner, so as to enable the employment of dies for clamping the lock u on the fence-wires when set u to form the ence.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and articularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the s irit or sacrificing any of the advanta es oIthe invention.

In tie accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the 100 of the present invention applied to connect a runner-wire and a stay-wire of a wire fence. Fig. 2 is an en view thereof. Fig. 3 is an inverted Ian view. Fig. 4 is an inverted rear view.

ike characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 3 designates an upright stay-wire, and 2 a longitudinal wire of a wire fence.

The lock 1 of the present invention is in the nature of a substantiall U-shaped wire staple, which has its close end applied against one side of the longitudinal wire 2 with its sides passed across the opposite side of the stay-wire 3, the end portions of the staple being extended past t e stay-wire and then bent inwardly across the firstmentioned side of the runner-wire 2. Where the 5o sides of the staple or look pass across the runner-wire, the side 4 passes between. the side 5 and the runner-wire and then is rebent or hooked about the side 5, as indicated at 6, the other side 5 being hooked or bent back around the side 4, as indicated at 7, from which it will be understood that the extremities of the lock are crossed across the runnerwire and are then intercngaged or hooked without beii hooked around the runnerwire. As indicated in Fig. 2, it will he noted that the pressure of the dies kinks the fencewires 2 and 3 and bends the staple, so that the side 5 overhangs the runner-wire 2, while the side 4. and the extremity 6 lie beneath the wire thereby effectually preventin vertical displacement or looseness of the loc From the foregoin description it will be noted that the initial orm of the lock prior to application to the crossed wires is that of a U- 7c s aped staple, and when applied and looked upon the wires the free extremities of the lock are interen aged or bent around one an other without a so being interengaged with either of the fence-wires, thereby materially simplifying the form of the dies for producing the Ice and likewise simplifying the look, while at the same time insuring an effective connection of the ends thereof.

Havin fully described the invention, what So is claime is- The combination with crossed wires, of a staple-shaped wire-lock straddling one of the wires with its sides passing across the opposite side of the other wire, and thence bent in- 8 5 wardly and mutually crossed across the firstmentioned wire, the extremities of the lock being bent in opposite directions around the respective opposite sides of the look.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 0 my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

R. B. ROBBINS, CHAS. H. Loans.

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