Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1889
I, MARK AMOS of The College, Westbury-on-Trym, in the County of Gloucester
engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the standards and droppers of wire fencing, and consists
in making the same separate from the prongs or bases and in connecting them thereto
in such manner as to permit the standards to yield to a pressure exerted by animals or
otherwise against the fencing, and thus to obviate loosening, distortion or fracture of
the standards which, when the pressure is removed, are restored to their normal
vertical position by the strained wires connected to the usual straining posts and acting
constantly to keep the standards upright.
The connection by which each standard is attached to its base may be made by
a bolt and nut. Upon this, or an equivalent hinge, the standard is free to move as
aforesaid.
This invention further consists in a double or compound standard suitable for
hinging to the base in the manner above mentioned.
The double or compound standard is composed of two bars connected together at or
near the top.
The two bars are slotted to receive the wires, and the slots are so shaped and
arranged that the standard may be applied to and closed upon the wires alter the
latter have been strained. The bars are then further bolted together at any desired
points. The use of wedges is dispensed with.
Such standards may be used also as "dropper" standards having no prongs or
bases and applied to the wires between those having bases as may be desired.
1000

page_text: I, MARK AMOS of The College, Westbury-on-Taym, in the County of Gloucester,
engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This invention relates to the standards and droppers of wire fencing, and consists
in making the same separate from the prongs or bases and in connecting them thereto
in such manner as to permit the standards to yield to a pressure exerted by animals
or otherwise against the fencing, and thus to obviate loosening, distortion or fracture
of the standards which, when the pressure is removed, are restored to their normal
vertical position by the strained wires connected to the usual straining posts and
neting constantly to keep the standards upright. The connection by which each
standard is attached to its base may be made by a bolt and nut.
Upon this, or an equivalent hinge, the standard is free to move as aforesaid.
This invention further consists in a double or compound standard suitable for
hinging to the base in the manner above mentioned.
The double or compound standard is composed of two bars connected together at
or near the top.
The two bars are slotted to receive the wires, and the slots are so shaped and
arranged that the standard may be applied to and closed upon the wires after the
latter have been strained.
At Fig. 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is represented, in side elevation,
a standard a, and base connected together in accordance with this invention.
The standard a instead of, as horo-to-fore, constituting with its base a rigid whole,
is secured to the base by a nut e and holt d passed through the forked end of
the standard and the top bar of the base embraced by the fork of the standard.
The joint is left sufficiently loose to allow the standard to move on the bolt as a
hinge. To a pressure exerted by animals or otherwise against a fence having
standards of this kind the latter yield, and, on the removal of the pressure, they are
returned to the vertical position by the strained wires connected to the usual straining
posts. The foot or base of the standard does not receive the prossure exerted on the
fonce and is, therefore, not loosened or strained thereby.
The hinge between the standard and the foot or base may be otherwise made than
by a nut and bolt.
At Fig. 2 is reprosented a double or compound standard constructed in accordance
with this invention.
The two bars and g are hinged together at the top. At intervals are slots h open
at the inner side.
In these slots are received the fence wires on which the bars are then closed.
The use of wedges in the slots is dispensed with. The compound standard is applied
to the wires after they have been strained.

page_text: Such standards may be used also as "dropper" standards having no prongs or
bases and applied to the wires between those having bases as may be desired.
When in place on the fence the bars of the "dropper "are secured together at the
bottom by a bolt and nut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A standard for fences hinged to the foot or base and free to yield on such
hinge to prossure exerted against the fence, such standard being either of the kind
herein before described with reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, or of the double or
compound type illustrated at Fig. 2.
2. The use as a "dropper" of the standard without a foot or base hereinbefore
described with reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicant's Agent.