Year: 1887

page_text: I DAVID ROWELL of The Iron, Wire, Wire Rope, and Fencing Company, 2 Poets
Corner in the City of Westminster, Engineer, 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 unclimbable railing for enclosing parks, squares, public and
private buildings, game preserves and other places, and for other like purposes
for which ordinary railing is used and it consists of improvements whereby railing
of this description may be produced more economically and of less weight than
heretofore whilst at the same time the requisite strength and rigidity are ensured.
In carrying out my Invention I substitute wire for the ordinary upper and lower
horizontal bars of railing of this description, the vertical bars or rails (which I prefer
to make of a light section) arranged in suitable close proximity to each other being
suitably connected to the horizontal wires or maintained in the desired relative
position thereon. This result may be conveniently accomplished by making the
vertical bars or rails of an Ḥ tubular or equivalent section passing the wires through
the same and employing distance pieces tubular or otherwise or suitable wedges
or similar fastenings for maintaining the vertical bars or rails in position.
And in order that my said Invention may be perfectly understood I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the best methods with which I am at
present acquainted of carrying the same into effect and for that purpose shall refer
to the several figures on the accompanying sheet of drawings, the same letters
of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a side elevation and Figure 2
a plan of a portion of a railing constructed according to two modifications of my
Invention shewn respectively on the left and right hand side of these figures,
Figure 3 is a sectional plan shewing two of the vertical bars or rails of an H section
a portion of the wire and one of the tubular distance pieces all drawn to the natural
size, and corresponding to the modification on the left hand side of Figures 1 and 2,
and Figure 4 is a transverse section of the wire and distance piece. Figure 5
is a sectional elevation shewing a tubular form of vertical bar or rail with wedge
suitable thereto for securing the same in position on the wire according to the
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page_text: modification illustrated on the right hand side of Figures 1 and 2; and Figure 6
is a sectional plan of the same.
a a a are the vertical bars or rails, represents one of the intermediate standards
made by preference of an H section as shewn and c c are repectively the upper
and lower horizontal portions of the railing consisting of wire.
According to the modification illustrated on the left hand side of Figures 1 and 2
the vertical bars or rails a, through holes in which the wires c c¹ pass, are made
of an H section, and secured in position on the wires by means of tubular distance
pieces d threaded on the wires and interposed between the vertical bars or rails
as shewn clearly in Figures 3 and 4.
According to the modification illustrated on the right hand side of Figures 1 and 2
the vertical bars or rails a are made of a tubular section and secured on the
wires cc (which pass through holes in such vertical tubes or rails) by means
of wedges d depending from a spire or ornamental cover surmounting the tubes
or rails as shewn clearly in Figures 5 and 6.
The wires are attached to rollers e e¹ carried by the end post or pillar for are
secured in any other suitable manner. g represents a strut supporting by its upper
end the end post or pillar fand secured at its lower end underground. An additional
upper wire and lower wire c3 may be provided as shewn by preference without
distance pieces or wedges as a safeguard against the contingency of the breakage
of one of the other wires.
By means of my invention a railing is produced of a cheap, light, strong and rigid
construction whilst at the same time it is capable of being made more pleasing to the
eye than the heavy and unsightly railing ordinarily in use.
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 :-
1. A railing composed of horizontal upper and lower wires and vertical bars
or rails connected together and suitably supported, substantially as and for the
purposes hereinafter described.
2. The combination with vertical bars or rails of an H or tubular or equivalent
section, of horizontal wires passing through the vertical bars or rails and of distance
pieces or wedges or similar fastenings for maintaining the vertical bars or rails in
position, all substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
Dated this Eighteenth day of August 1887