IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WIRE FENCING AND WIRE TO BE USED THEREFOR, APPLICABLE FOR PURPOSES."OTHER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Westgarth, of Warrington, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO WIRE
FENCING AND WIRE TO BE USED THEREFOR, APPLICABLE FOR
PURPOSES."
OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Westgarth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th July 1880.
JOHN WESTGARTH, of Warrington, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS
AND RELATING TO WIRE FENCING, AND WIRE TO BE USED THEREFOR,
APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
IN
My Invention relates to the production of a strong, inexpensive, and effective
wire fencing with barbs, the wire being applicable for fencing without barbs, and
for purposes other than fencing.
My Invention consists,
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First. Of an improved form and manufacture of steel, iron, or other metal wire.
Second. Of constructing such wire so that it is capable of receiving barbs.
Third. To a construction of barbs, and a method of applying such barbs to the
wire.
Fourth. In a link or joint for fastening the ends of wire used as wire fencing.
Under the first part, I form or manufacture steel, iron, or other metal wire for
fencing and other purposes of a double headed rail, or figure of 8 section, by
drawing or rolling.
Under the second part, I perforate or pierce wire, made under the first part, with
slots or holes at suitable intervals through the web or channel of the wire, either
by machine or hand, so as to allow one or more pointed barbs or spikes of any
suitable material and shape being passed through such perforation by machine or
hand, and afterwards locked by pressing both sides of the wire between the barbs,
or in the case of a single barb by bending the barb to a right angle.
Under the third part, I perforate or pierce the web of the wire with slots or holes
at suitable intervals, and I form the barbs of a strip or strips of sheet metal, or

page_text: round or other shaped wire with bevelled edges, which I pass through the slots or
holes, so that when opened or bent out they form barbs on the wire.
Under the fourth part, I construct joint pieces or couplings for fastening the
ends of wire fencing in the form of a link with four holes. Through the inner of
these holes the ends of the wire to be joined are passed. The ends are then
returned through the outer holes; when tension is applied the link grips the wire
and the wire comes in line.
By my Invention I produce a novel section of wire, which may be used plain for
fencing, having the advantage of strength and side surface, and which, when
perforated, or slotted, can be provided with barbs, producing a novel form of spiked
wire, particularly applicable for barbed fencing, and forming an effectual barrier
against cattle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Westgarth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
January 1881.
JOHN WESTGARTH, of Warrington, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND RELATING TO WIRE FENCING, AND WIRE TO DE USED THEREFOR,
APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES,"
My Invention relates to the production of a strong, inexpensive, and effective
wire fencing with barbs, the wire being applicable for fencing without barbs, and
for purposes other than fencing, and the following is a full, clear, and exact
description of the Invention, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which
it appertains to make and use the samo, reference being had to the Sheet of
Drawings making a part of this Specification, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, which correspond with those used in the Specification, like letters or
figures denoting the same or corresponding parts throughout the various views.
My Invention consists,-
First. Of an improved section, and form, and manufacture of drawn or rolled
steel, iron, or other metal wire.
Second. Of constructing such wire so that it is capable of receiving barbs.
Third. To certain constructions of barbs, and a method of applying such barbs
to the wire.
Fourth. In a link or joint for fastening the ends of the wire fencing together.
Under the first part, I manufacture steel, iron, or other metal wire for fencing of
section in the form of the figure of 8 or rail section, as illustrated in Figure 1 of the
Drawings. The wire is manufactured by drawing or rolling.
Under the second part, I perforate or pierce the wire made under the first part,
and illustrated at Figure 1, with slots or holes at suitable intervals through the
web of the wire, as illustrated at a, Figure 2 of the Drawings, so as to allow one or
more pointed barbs or spikes, as hereinafter described to be passed through such
perforation a and afterwards locked in position by pressing both sides of the wire
between the barbs, or by bending the barbs out to a right or other angle. The
barbs may be further fixed by galvanizing the wire.
Under the third part, I form the barbs by cutting them out of a strip of sheet
metal, as shown at Figures 3 and 4 in dotted lines. This prevents waste of the metal.
Or the barbs may be formed of strips of metal, as shown at Figure 5, or of round,
or other wire, as shown at Figure 6. I pass the barbs, which are indicated by the
letter b, through the slots or holes a, as shown at Figures 7, 8, and 9, so that when
opened or bent out they form barbs on the wire, in manner as shown at Figure 9,
which for convenience of illustration has five different types of barbs shown. This
Figure 9 represents the barbed wire according to my Invention which I use for
fencing. Figure 10 shows a group of barbs, any of which may bo used singly or
combined.
Under the fourth part, I connect the ends of the barbed wire at d and e by the
coupling piece h, which has four holes through which the ends of the wire pass, in
manner as illustrated in the device shown at Figure 11. When tension is applied
the coupling piece h grips and holds the wire.
By my Invention I produco a novel section of drawn or rolled wire having the
advantage of great strength with broad side surface, which, when perforated or
slotted, can be provided with barbs, as shown at Figure 9, producing a novel kind
of spiked wire, which is easily connected length to length by means of a coupling
dovice, such as shown at Figure 11, and when erected the spiked wire forms an
effectual and superior fence.

page_text: I would state that I am aware that heavy metal has been rolled in the section
shown at Figure 1, but this I do not claim, but as far as I can ascertain no wire for
fencing or other purposes has been drawn or rolled in such section.
Having thus described my Invention, and shown how the same may be put into
practical operation, what I claim as my Invention and secured to me by Letters
Patent as aforesaid is,―
First. A drawn or rolled wire formed as described, and of the section illustrated
at Figure 1 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Second. A drawn or rolled wire, of section as shown at Figure 1 of the Drawings,
and slotted or pierced with holes, such as a, as shown at Figure 2 of the Drawings.
Third. The various forms of barbs, and the method of applying them to the
drawn or rolled wire, as herein described and shown at Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
and 10 of the Drawings-hereto annexed
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Fourth. A barbed wire fencing constructed as described, and shown at Figures 7,
8, and 9 of the Drawings horeto annexed.
Fifth. The method of coupling wire fencing, as herein described and shown at
Figure 11 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Westgarth, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.