Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1898
We, ADOLPHUS HENRY COOK, Fence Builder, JESSIE GALLOWAY BRUCE, Gentle
woman, and CHRISTINE BRUCE, Gentlewoman, all of the Village of Almira, in the
County of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in wire fence machines and the object of
the invention is to design a simple and readily adjustable machine by which the
longitudinal and vertical wires of a fence may be securely bound together without
the use of supplemental brackets or clips and it consists essentially of two vertical
bars provided with brackets secured at the inner end between them by suitable
clamps; the longitudinal wires being designed to be held in loops on the outer ends
of the brackets and twisting devices being utilized in connection with the vertical
wires such as hereinafter more particularly explained.
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of my wire fence machine complete showing one
vertical wire secured in position and the other in the act of being made.
Fig. 2, is a detail of the bracket.
Fig. 3, is a detail of an alternative form of bracket to be utilized in case the
longitudinal wires are barbed wires.
Fig. 4, is a detail of the guiding arm.
Fig. 5, is a detail of the clamp.
In the drawings like letters of references indicate corresponding parts in each
figure.
A is one vertical bar provided with a foot a designed to rest upon the ground.
B is a parallel bar. CC are the uppermost and lowermost brackets against which
the top and bottom longitudinal wires D of the fence rest. The brackets C con-
sist of two branches C and C. The inner branch C¹ in each case is provided with
a stop lug c to the front of the bars and the outermost branch is provided with the
stop lug at the rear of the bars, so as to hold the bracket in proper horizontal
position.
E is the upper and lower guide bars, which are provided with forked ends e with-
in which the longitudinal wires D pass. The guide arms are L-shaped in form and
are provided with looped inner ends & through one side of which extends the set
screws e, which serve to clamp the ends of the bars together and hold them in
such position.
F are the intermediate brackets which consist of two branches F1 and F2 having
the front stop lugs f¹ and f respectively extending at each side of the branches in

page_text: front of the edges of the bars, and the rear stop lugs f³. Clamps G are provided
with suitable set screws y, which clamp the bars A and B together directly opposite
the centre of the branches of the brackets thereby securing the brackets in any
position in which they may be placed, this depending upon the distance apart the
longitudinal wires of the fences are designed to be placed.
The outer ends of the brackets F are provided with substantially hooked or looped
ends F3 in which are run the intermediate longitudinal wires of the fence.
Where
the longitudinal wires would be barbed wires we preferably provide the form shown
in Fig. 3 in which a jaw F is shown, so that the barbed longitudinal wires may
be drawn out laterally instead of being pulled along longitudinally in the form of
fence I have shown.
H are the vertical wires, which are arranged in pairs. They are twisted so as
to hug the longitudinal wires by a twisting double arm I having a central groove i
of the thickness of the wire, so that when the double wire passes through it, it will
hold it firmly while the arm is being twisted around by the hands.
It will be noticed that the vertical portion of the arm is quite long and this is
essentially necessary as it requires less turns of the wire in order to twist it
sufficiently close to the longitudinal wires.
In order to provide for twisting the ends of the wires around the top and bottom
longitudinal wires we provide a supplemental block J with end eyes through
which the end of each wire of the vertical bar is passed when twisting. It will
thus be seen that by turning the block around the longitudinal wire, the ends of
the vertical wires may be twisted thereon as shown at h.
In such a machine as we describe we are enabled very quickly to put up the
class of fence described in a former Application No. 15955, filed 21st July 1898.
It will also be noticed in the construction of our machine, that the brackets may
be readily shifted vertically and into any desired position by loosening the clamps,
and any desired width of the longitudinal wires from each other may therefore be
readily arranged for.
The position of the bar A and the foot a thereof may of course be arranged so
that the bottom longitudinal wire may be at any desired distance from the ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The combination with the vertical bars and brackets held between same and
provided with the loops, of the clamps for securing the brackets and bars firmly
in position as and for the purpose specified.
2. The combination with a vertical bar provided with a foot, and a parallel bar,
of the upper double branch brackets provided with inner retaining lugs extending
to the front and to the rear of the edge of the bars and suitable clamping device
for securing the bars and brackets in position as and for the purpose specified.
3. The combination with a vertical bar provided with a foot, and a parallel bar,
of the upper double branch brackets provided with inner retaining lugs extending
to the front and to the rear of the edge of the bars and L-shaped guiding arnis at
the top and bottom provided with forked outer ends and a looped inner end provided
with a set screw for clamping the ends of the bars together as and for the purpose
specified.
4. The combination with the vertical parallel bars of the machine, of the brackets
provided with looped outer ends and double branches and front laterally extending
lugs on the branches extending in front of the edge of the bars and rear lugs abut-
ting the rear of the edge of the bars and the clamps for securing the bars and
brackets securely together as and for the purpose specified.
5. The combination with the upper supporting bars and brackets, of the arm I
provided with a central groove as and for the purpose specified.

page_text: 6. The combination with the bars and supporting brackets for the upper and
lower longitudinal wires, of the twisting block provided with suitable eyes to
receive the ends of the wires as and for the purpose specified.
Dated the 31st day of August 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.