US820578A - Wire-stretcher. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

I No. 820,578.

A. A. & W. BL KEMP.

WIRE STRETUHER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, 1906.

Q? Inventors Witnesses Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. KEMP AND WILLIAM B. KEMP, OF GUY MON, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

WIRE-STRETCHER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed January 30, 1906. SerialNo. 298,660.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR A. KEMP and WILLIAM, B. KEMP, citizens of the United States, residing at Guymon, in the county of Beaver, Oklahoma Territory, have invented a new and useful Wire-Stretcher, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire-stretchers, and has for an object to provide a device of the class embodying new and improved features of simplicity, durability, convenience, and efficiency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a wire-stretcher embodying improved means for drawing together and holding broken ends of wire while a splice is being made.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, pro portion, size, and minor details may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

While the improved wire-stretcher may be used in any convenient position, Figure 1 of the drawings may be considered a top plan view, and Fig. 2 a view of the stretcher in side elevation.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawin s.

In its preferred embodiment the improved wire-stretcher forming the subject-matter of this application comprises a chain of any approved length and structure and provided at each end with wire-grips of any approved form, but preferably the spear-point grips shown at 11 and 12. Adjacent the grip hooks 13 and 14 are swiveled to the chain by means of which the chain may be secured about a post, as 15.

For cooperation with the chain a lever 16' is provided, having a hook 17 swiveled to a yoke 18, pivoted to the lever, as at 19, the oke and hook extending laterally at one side of the lever. At each side of the pivot 19 the yokes 20 and 21 are pivoted, as at 22 and 23, to which are respectively swiveled the hooks 24 and 25, formed to easily and conveniently engage links of the chain.

To stretch a wire to a post, the chain 10 is passed around the post, as in Fig. 1, and the wire drawn as tightly as convenient by hand is engaged by the grip 11. The lever is then applied by engaging the hook 17 within any convenient link and the hook 24 in serted in a link at the extreme of its reach. The lever is then moved in the direction in dicated by the arrow, which draws the hooks 17 and 24 together and advances the hook 25. When the lever has been moved as far as convenient, the hook 25 is inserted in a link and the movement of the lever reversed. This action is repeated until the wire is at the desired tension, when it maybe secured to the post in the usual manner.

When making a splice of broken ends, the wires are engaged by the opposite grips, as in Fig. 2, and the ends drawn together by manipulating the lever, as before described. It is often found more convenient to remove the lever while securing the wire either to the post or together, and especially in the latter instance. When, therefore, the chain has been drawn in and the interval between the grips reduced to give the wire the desired tension, the loop or slack of the chain is en'- gaged, as by the hook 14, to prevent a separating of the grips and loosening of the wire. When the hook has engaged the loop, the lever may be entirely removed from the chain, so as to offer no obstruction to the convenient manipulation of the severed ends.

Having thus described the invention,what is claimed is 1. A wire-stretcher comprising a chain, grips adjacent the ends of the chain, a detachable lever arranged to draw in the chain to shorten the interval between the grips and means whereby the loop of the chain may be engaged to maintain the grips in such relation after the lever is removed.

2. A wire-stretcher comprising, a chain, gri s adjacent the ends of the chain, a detachab e lever arranged to draw in the chain to shorten the interval between the grips, a hook adjacent one end adapted to engage the loop of the chain to maintain the grips in the obtained relation after the lever is removed.

3. A Wire-stretcher comprising a chain, fence-engaging grips at the ends of the chain,

a lever extending across the chain, means upon the lever for engaging the chain, said means constituting a fulcrum, and hooks carried by the lever at opposite sides of its fulcrum and adapted to successively en age links of the chain to decrease the interval between the grips.

4. A wire-stretcher comprising a chain, fence-engaging grips at the ends or the chain, a lever extending across the chain, a hook pivoted to and extending from the lever and adapted to engage a chain-link, a hook pivoted to the lever at each side of the first-mentioned hook, said hooks adapted to successively engage the links of the chain to decrease the intervals between'the grips.

5. A wire-stretcher comprising a chain, grips adjacent the ends of the chain,a detachable lever, a hook pivoted to and extending laterally from the ever and arranged to engage a link, a hook pivoted upon each side of and extending opposite the first hook and to progressively engage other links to draw in the chain step by step and decrease the interval between the grips and a hook adjacent one end of and to engage the loop of the chain to maintain the grips in the obtained relation when the lever is removed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR A. KEMP. WILLIAM B. KEMP. Witnesses:

B. F. AYoooK, E. W. HIMEs.

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