An Improved Combined Stay and Foot for Use with Iron or other Fencing and Gates.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 25th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
RESERVI
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Stay and Foot for Use with Iron or other
Fencing and Gates.
I CHARLES BENNETT of Branstone in the county of Northampton Surgeon do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to bo as follows :-
My invention relates to an improved combined stay and foot for use with iron or
other fencing whereby 1 impart great stability to the same and facilitate the removing
of the standards when required; my invention also applies to gate posts connected
with such fencing or to other gate posts to which such invention is applicable. I
construct a vertical pointed leg of suitable section and at a desirable height from a
horizontal_extension adapted to abut on the standard or post; From the horizontal
extension I produce another vertical extension also adapted to abut on the standard or
post.
When the standard or post is erected in position, the vertical end of my stay and
foot is driven into the ground till the horizontal extension lies firmly upon or in the
surface thereof and the other vertical extension abuts on the standard or post, it being
formed of suitable section or shape to enable it to lie close thereto.
Such extension is secured to the standard or post by clips, bands screws, pins, bolts,
wires or otherwise and where a lower rail comes close to the ground I may crank the
upper vertical extension to allow the rail to pass and fit an abutment on the horizontal
extension to lie on and be secured to the standard or post; such stay and foot is very
useful in connection with an invention in fencing for which I have already applied for
Provisional Protection.
It will be seen that the stay and foot can be removed independently of the standard
or post and vice versa on releasing the connections between them.
Dated this 25th day of Avoust 1886.
POPPLEWELL, COLTON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I CHARLES BENNETT of Brannston in the county of Northampton, Surgeon, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to an improved combined stay and foot for use with iron or
other fencing whereby I impart great stability to the same and facilitate the removing
of the standards when required.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the Figures and letters of
reference marked thereon.
Figure 1. shews an elevation of my combined stay and foot, the moveable earth-
ylate above the horizontal portion of the combined stay and foot being shewn raised
clear of and above the said horizontal extension.
Figure 2. is a plan of the same on line a - - b.
Figure 3. is a back elevation of the stay and foot.
Figure 4. is an elevation of my combined stay and foot fitted to a T iron standard
and with all the parts adjusted in position.
Figure 5. is an alternative mode of fitting the stay and foot to the standard.
I construct a vertical pointed leg A of suitable section (as shewn it is flat) and at a
desirable height I form a horizontal extension B adapted to abut on the standard or
post C this is shewn made of T iron but other section may be used.
From the horizontal extension B I produce another vertical extension D also
adapted to abut on the standard or post A.
E is a channel shaped plate secured to the vertical extension D of the stay by bolt
and nut and lug F" or otherwise and fitting the horizontal extension B as clearly
shewn in Figures 3 and 4.
G is a clip secured to the vertical extension D of the stay by bolt G¹.
The space between the flat of the T iron of the standard or post and the stay can
be filled with wood or other packing.
To secure the standard or post in position the combined stay and foot is first driven
into the ground until the plate E and the horizontal extension B abut thereon or are
embedded therein, then the standard or post is passed through the clip G and through
the suitably sectioned hole in the plate E and driven into the ground.
If desired I may dispense with the plate E and clip G and after erecting a post or
standard in position drive the combined stay and foot represented by A. B. D until the
horizontal extension lies firmly upon the surface of or in the ground and the

page_text: extension D abuts on the standard and is then clipped, bolted, wired or otherwise
secured thereto.
Figure 5. shews a means of attaching the stay to the back of the standard or post.
G' is the clip secured to the standard or post A¹ by bolt G³. Rivetted to clip G² is a
plate H secured to a clip or guide I' through which the vertical portion D of the stay
is passed.
Where a lower rail comes close to the ground I may crank the upper vertical
extension D to allow the rail to pass and fit an abutment on the horizontal extension B
to lie on and be secured to the standard or post.
Such combined stay and foot is very useful in connection with an invention for
which I have secured Letters Patent No. 5519 of 1886. It will be seen that the stay
and foot can be removed independently of the standard or foot or vice versa on
releasing the connection between them.
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 combined stay and foot substantially as and for the purposes
described.