Improvements in Wire Fences, and in Stays therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JAMES W. SNEDeker, of Detroit, Michigan,
United States of America, Gentleman, and HIRAM WALKER, Isle of Peche,
Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada.]
Improvements in Wire Fences, and in Stays therefor.
I, DAVID YOUNG, Patent Agent, of the Firm of D. Young & Co., 11 and 12,
Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performod, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to wire fences and analogous articles, and more particularly
to a novel stay for holding the wires rigidly together.
My invention consists of the construction, combination, and arrangement of
devices hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing in which,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a wire fence constructed according to my said
invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in side elevation showing two fonce wires, and one of
my stays engaged therewith.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3-3 Fig. 2, showing the stay in position
hefore it is compressed into its permanent position.
Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the stay in position when compressed into
place.
Fig. 5 illustrates, in side elevation, a modification of the stay.
Fig. 6 is a separate view of one of the stays showing the inner face thereof.
A and B represent two fence wires crossing one another, preferably at right
angles. C represents one of my improved stays engaged therewith. This stay
is constructed with four projecting arms C, C, C, C. The extremities of these
arms terminate in curved hooks c¹, c³, c², c'.
C' is the centre of one of my improved stays. From said centre, C', the arms
are curved outward in the normal construction of the stay, as indicated more
particularly in Fig. 3. The arms are also provided with an additional curve to
form the looks at their extremities. The stay shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4,
more particularly may be made of a malleable casting. It will be perceived that
the hooked ends of the arms will engage about tho wires A, B. Thus the
arms C and C engage the wire A on opposito sides of the wire B, while the
hooks of the arms Cand C engage the wire B on opposite sides of the wire A.
Fig. 3 as above described, shows the stay C in its permanent engagement with
said fence wires, in which position, however, the wires might slip through the
hooked ends of said arms. After the stay is in place, as shown in Fig. 3, force is
applied by a suitable instrument to compress the stay into closer relation to the
fence wires, bringing the centre C of the stay adjacent to the overlapped wires,
while also the curved arms aro straightened out by the compression to a suitable
extent to firmly clamp the stay upon the wires. In so compressing the stay into
place, the wires may also be beut, as indicated in Fig. 4, and the hooked ends set
snugly on the wires.
Instead of making the stay of a malleable casting it may be stamped out of
sheet metal, such a construction being shown in Fig. 5.
When the stay has been so compressed upon the wires, it is evident that the
wires are firmly locked in connection therewith and held immovable.

page_text: The stay is of neat and tasteful appearance. A stay is designed to be applied at
each crossing of the wires, making the fence very strong and durable and also very
ornamental in appearance. The stay is easily and quickly applied and the whole
construction of a fence so formed is simple and economical.
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When the stay is stamped from sheet metal or cast, the inner face of the
centre C is preferably made concave, as indicated more particularly in Fig. 6,
permitting the wires where they cross one another to be crimped the one upon
other into the concave face of the stay, whereby they are the more effectually held
in rigid position. It will be perceived that the construction of the stay and the
manner of its engagement with the wires, is such as to allow for any contraction or
expansion without diminution of the firmness of the stay in its engagement
therewith. The hooks at the ends of the arms are lateral, as will be perceived.
The stay may be used upon farm, garden, and other fences, gates, and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A fence-stay formed with a centre C', and projecting arms C³, C³, C', C',
having hooked ends to engage with the fence wires, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination, with fence-wires, A, B, of a stay formed with a central
portion C and with projecting arnis C, C, C, C, having hooked extremities
engaging with the said wires, and clamped or compressed upon the said wires,
substantially as set forth.
3. The combination, with fence-wires A, B, of a stay formed with a centre C
and with arms C¹, C, C, C, curved away from the said centre and terminating in
lateral hooks to engage with the said wires, the said arms and hooks being clamped
or compressed upon the said wires, substantially as set forth.
4. A fence-stay constructed with a centre Cand with arms C, C³, C³, C, having
looked extremities, one face of the stay being concave, substantially as, and for
the purpose, above specified.
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5. The combination, with fence-wires A, B, of a stay formed with a centre C'
concave on one of its faces, and with hooked arms C¹, C, C, C+, engaged with the
said wires, the said arms being clamped upon the said wires and the said wires
crimped into the concave face of the stay, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 28th day of February 1905
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.