US902659A - Wire-fence stay. - Google Patents

Description

v R. L. .HORSLEY.

WIRE FENCE STAY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908 Wit" use;

ROBERT L. HORSLEY, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

WIRE-FENCE STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed January 19, 1907. Serial No. 353,058.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. HonsLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Worth, Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Fence Stays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wire ties for making wire fabric and fences and the like, and the object is to provide wire formed into spiral form so that woven wire fabric and fences can be made or put together without 5 machinery or special tools and to provide wire which will be easily formed into clamps or ties which will securely bind the cross wires of fabrics and the line wires of fences and the parts of which will mesh with each other when a wire is bent up on itself and thus form a tie.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application and specification.

Fi ure 1 is a section of a fabric or fence in whici is shown a variation in the line wires and in which the spiral wire has its ends lapped upon each other and meshed to form the tie or clamp. Fig. 2 is a view, illustrating a tie wire or spiral having clamps formed at the ends to engage the outside wires of the fence or fabric. Fig. 3 is a similar view, illustrating the tie wire engaging at one end the outside wire of the fence or fabric and the other end making two bends or clamps on the outside wire and lapped back to the second wire of the fence or fabric and a clamp formed on this second wire.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

The drawings show a section of a fabric, Fig. 1, and other sections, Figs. 2 and 3, which may be fabric or fence sections. A fabric will ordinarily be constructed as illustrated in Fig. 1.

It is apparent that the improved spiral may be used on various articles of manufacture.

By reason of the wire 10 being spiral, it has elasticity to some extent, and when the wires are sprung, as by an animal trying to force its way through the wires, the wire 10 will resume its normal position when the pressure is released. When there are irregularities of the ground, the fence may be s rung closer to the ground in low places so that there will not be passages under the lowest line wire. The spiral 10 is bent several times about the wire 14 and then each leg of the spiral 10 is bent around each line wire 15, 16, 17, to the bottom wire 18, and then one leg of the spiral 10 is bent several times around the wire 18 and then the ends 11 and 12 are meshed together and no further tying or clamping is necessary and the stay 10 is secured against lateral motion on the line wires.

In Fig. 2, the spiral 13 has one end clamped or wrapped around the wire-19 and the spiral is bent around each line wire 20, 21, and 23 to the bottom wire 24.. The end of the spiral is then clamped on the wire 24.

Fig. 3 illustrates another manner of securing a spiral 22 to the line wires 25. The spiral 22 is clamped on the bottom wire 25 and then bent around each line wire to the top wire 25. The spiral 22 is then bent several times about the wire 25 and extended down and clamped on the next wire 25 below.

In all the forms shown the tie or stay wire engages the line wires by receiving a line wire in a coil or bend thereof and the line wire and the stay combine, meshing with each other to form a tie or clamp which makes the wires immovable on each other.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

In a wire fence, the combination of the line wires of the fence and spiraled stays, each stay being bent one or more times about each line wire and the spiral of the stay being proportioned to clamp the line wire in the spiral bend of the stay.

In testimony whereof, I set my hand in the presence of two witnesses, this 16th day of January, 1907.

ROBERT L. HORSLEY. Witnesses:

A. L. JACKSON, B. J. Lonxowsxr.

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