IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCING
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, JAMES YOUNG, of the firm of Bain, Young & Co, Contractors, of 27 Cross-
causeway, in the City and County of Edinburgh, do horeby declare the nature of
my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCING," to be as follows:—
The object of my Invention is to secure more effectually on to the wires of wire
fencing, the droppers or vertical bars and standards employed for holding the wires
apart.
To this end I employ as a dropper a flat bar, near each end of which is punched
long slot or hole, and I then bend the slotted ends of the bar to form a loop or
yo at each end. The slots then serve as recesses in the ends of the bar or dropper,
or the reception of the uppermost and lowest wires of the fencing, which aro
therein secured by inserting a pin or wedge into each eye to cross outside the wire
at right angles. The pins or wedges may be driven in with such pressure as to
indent the wires and thus prevent slipping or displacement of the dropper.
The dropper is twisted near each end in order that while the slots may be in
the plane of the fencing to receive the top and bottom wires, the flat side of the
dropper may rest against the intermediato wires which are secured to it in the
usual way.
The standards which carry the fencing, I form in a similar manner, excepting
that the lower end instead of terminating at the lowest wire is fixed to the ground,
and angle or tee iron is preferably used to obtain the requisite strength.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, JAMES YOUNG, of the firm of Bain, Young & C° Contractors of 27 Cross-
causeway in the City and County of Edinburgh, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE FENCING," and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of my invention is to secure more effectually on to the wires of wire
fencing, the droppers or vertical bars and standards employed for holding the wires
apart.
To this end I employ as a dropper a flat bar, near each end of which is punched
a long slot or hole, and I then bend 'the slotted ends of the bar to form a loop or
eye at each end. The slots then serve as recesses in the ends of the bar or dropper,
for the reception of the uppermost and lowest wires of the fencing, which are
therein secured by inserting a pin or wedge into each eyo to cross outside the wire
at right angles. The pins or wedges may be driven in with such pressure as to
indent the wires, and thus prevent slipping or displacement of the dropper.
The dropper is twisted near each end in order that while the slots may be in the
plano of the fencing to receive the top and bottom wires, the flat side of the
dropper may rest against the intermediate wires which are secured to it in the
usual way.
The standards which carry the fencing, I form in a similar manner, excepting
that the lower end instead of terminating at the lowest wire is fixed to the ground,
and angle or tee iron is preferably used to obtain the requisito strength.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my invention figure 1 is an
elevation of part of a fence fitted with my improved droppers and standards.
Figures 2 and 3 are elevations to a larger scale of a modification of the improved
dropper. Figures 4, 5 and 6 are views of different forms of the improved standards.
The dropper is formed of a flat bar A in each end of which is punched a slot a.
The ends are bent over to form eyes, and the top and bottom wires B are passed
through the recesses a and there secured by pins C driven through these oyes.
The upper ends of the standards are formed with slotted eyes in the same
manner, and when T or angle iron is employed one web of the bar only is bent to
the requisite form. The intermediate wires are secured in any of the ordinary
ways.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improved construction of droppers and standards for wire fencing sub-
stantially as herein described.