An Improved Portable Hurdle or Gate.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Hurdle or Gate.
GEORGE COOMBE Charlton Creech St. Michael Somerset Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to fences, hurdles gates barriers and is used for all the
purposes to which ordinary fences hurdles gates and barriers have been hitherto
employed.
I take two
carry my invention into effect in the following manner or method.
rigid uprights which are made of metal wood or any other suitable material and
connect these uprights at or near their centre with each other by means of a rigid
bar which may be made of wood or metal as may be required or any combination of
wood metal or other material in the space above and below the aforesaid rigid bar
wires hoop-iron rods cords or other suitable materials are stretched between the
uprights so as to complete the hurdle gate or fence.
At the foot of one of the uprights a small wheel may be fixed or placed free to
revolve the object of this wheel being that upon one end of the hurdle remote from
the wheel herein before named being lifted and pushed the hurdle or fence is made
more portable and readier moved.
Another combination of this hurdle or fence is the jointing or hinging together of
two or more sections not that the jointing or hinging of hurdles or gates is new but
the hinging of hurdles hereinbefore described is entirely new, in this case one wheel
would only be required for two or more hurdles or sections.
A further modification of my invention is the jointing of the longitudinal tie in
any part of its length and the fastening of the two pieces so jointed with bolts or
other well known appliances. In order to strengthen the longitudinal tie in its
attachments to the uprights I use tension or tie-pieces or other suitable means for
connecting the posts to the tie-bar to make this inore readily understood the part of
the upright and the part of the longitudinal tie-piece will be somewhat in the shape
of a right angled triangle of which the tie-piece will be the hypotenuse. If it is
required to keep the wires in their places one or more subsidery cross-pieces can
be attached to the longitudinal connecting piece and the wires passed through holes
in same or secured by staples or otherwise suitably connected thereto the wires will
also be kept tight by straining bolts.
In order that more stiffness may be given to the hurdle or barrier I stretch the
wires so that they can act as ties and the cross piece being extended away from a
plane that passes through the axis of the uprights and the wires being attached
or passing over it puts such cross piece into compression and causes it to act
as a strut.
When it is desired for the hurdle to be used as a gate then by attaching guy
wires to the top end of one of the uprights by means of a ring or collar the other
ends of the guy wires being fixed in the ground so that the upright can be free to
revolve and thus swing the hurdle or fence into any required direction. One end
of the upright is stepped in the ground, or in a peg driven in the ground and the
swinging end will drop in a groove cut in another peg driven in the ground thus
doing away with posts.
If the hurdle or gate is made of iron it may be made of any required section or
the uprights and the connecting-piece may be made tubular.
Dated this 17th day of July 1890.
WM. LLEWELLIN, C.E.,
15, King Square, Bristol, Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Hurdle or Gate.
I GEORGE COOMBE Charlton Creech St. Michael Somerset Gentleman 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:
This invention has reference to an improved portable hurdle or gate which can
be used for all the purposes that fences hurdles gates and barriers are used for. I
carry my invention into practice in the following manner.
I take two rigid uprights which are made of metal wood or any other suitable
material and connect them at or near their centre with each other by means of a
rigid bar which may be made of wood or metal as may be required or any com-
bination of wood metal or other material in the space above and below the aforesaid
rigid bar wires hoop iron rods cords or other suitable materials are stretched
between the uprights so as to complete the hurdle gate or barrier which will for the
sake of brevity be hereinafter called the hurdle.
At the foot of one of the uprights a wheel may be fixed or placed free to revolve
the object of this wheel being that upon the ends of the hurdle remote from the
wheel hereinbefore named being lifted and pushed the hurdle is readily moved from
place to place as may be desired.
Another improvement is the jointing or hinging together of two or more hurdles
of any of the usual and well known descriptions or of the special forms hereinbefore
or hereinafter described hurdles, not that the jointing or hinging of hurdles is new
but the hinging of hurdles made with a rigid longitudinal bar as described is
entirely new in this case one wheel would only be required for two or more hurdles
or sections.
A further modification of my invention is the jointing of the longitudinal bar in
any parts of its length and the fastening of the two pieces so jointed with bolts or
other well known appliances.
In order to strengthen the longitudinal bar in its attachments to the uprights
I use tension struts or tie-pieces or other suitable means for connecting uprights to
the longitudinal bar, to make this readily understood the part of the upright and
the part of the longitudinal bar will be somewhat in the shape of a right angled
triangle of which parts of the longitudinal bar and the uprights will represent the
sides containing the right angle and the tension or tie-picces will be the hypotenuse
of the right angled triangle.
If it is required to keep the wires in their places one or more subsidery cross-
pieces can be attached to the longitudinal bar and the wires passed through holes
in same or secured by staples or otherwise suitably connected thereto the wires will
also be kept tight by straining bolts.
In order that more stiffness may be given to the hurdle I stretch the wires so that
they can act as ties and the cross-piece being extended away from the vertical plane
of the longitudinal bar some of the wires being attached or passing over the cross-
piece puts such cross piece into compression and causes it to act as a strut or
stiffening piece on the longitudinal bar.
When it is desired for the hurdle to be used as a gate then by attaching guy
wires to the top end of one of the uprights by means of a ring or collar the other
ends of the guy wires being fixed into the ground so that the upright can be free to
revolve and thus swing the hurdle or fence into any required direction. One end of
the upright is stepped in the ground or in a peg driven into the ground and the
swinging end will drop if required into a groove cut in another peg driven in the
ground thus doing away with gate posts.
If the hurdle is made of iron it may be made of any required section or the
uprights and the longitudinal bar may be made tubular in this case struts may or
may not be required.

page_text: In order that my invention may be more readily understood I annex hereto one
sheet of explanatory drawings which are to be read herewith and taken as part of
these presents.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation in which A' A. B' B C. & D are uprights,
the uprights B B and C are hinged together and between these uprights is fixed a
wheel E free to revolve the length of the uprights A' A. & D are preferably but
not necessarily the same length as that from the periphery of the wheel E to the
top of the upright B B by bringing the uprights A' A & D together which is done
by means of the hinge F the hurdle can readily be wheeled in any required
direction the most convenient way for so wheeling the hurdle is by the operator
placing himself between the two longitudinal bars G. H.
Figure 2 shows the method of constructing the hurdle A' A and B B being two
uprights which are rigidly connected by a longitudinal bar G. E. situated about
midway between A'A and B' B the top parts G. A' and H. B1 and the lower parts
G. A and H. B having transverse strands of wire rope or other suitable material
stretched between the uprights and parallel to the longitudinal bar G. H or in
other suitable direction with reference to the longitudinal bar G. H as may be
desired.
any
Figure 3 represents the method of constructing the hurdle when the material is
of wood square in section A¹ A is an upright B' B another upright G. H longi-
tudinal bar J. K. are struts ends of which are let or mortised into the vertical
uprights A' A and B B and also into the longitudinal bar G H. Wires or any other
suitable fencing material are stretched above and below the longitudinal bar G. H.
so as to complete the hurdle.
Figure 4 shows another arrangement for forming the hurdle when the longitudinal
bar is of thin board such as flooring board A' A and B B are uprights
GH the longitudinal bar L M is a cross piece in or near the centre of the
longitudinal bar. The wire is threaded alternately or in any other suitable way as
may be found most suitable for straining on the cross-piece L. M. so as to give
stiffness to the longitudinal bar G. H.
Figure 5 is a plan of the arrangement as shown in Figure 4 in which A' A and
B B are uprights L M the cross piece and N. O. are the straining wires passing
over the cross piece and tending by their tension to stiffen the longitudinal
bar G. H.
Figure 6 shows another improvement in the hinging of the hurdles.
The hurdles
may be as previously named made of tube or if they are not the bottom part may be
made hollow, a pivot P is inserted in the hollow part and bent over and screwed at
the end R. The upright C of another hurdle which is hinged to it may be also
tubular or if not may be hollowed out a pin Q with a loop or eye T in it is fixed
rigidly in the upright C of the hurdle.
In fitting the two hurdles together the wheel E is passed over the screwed part R
and fitted into it when it is free to revolve. The loop T is then passed over the
screwed part R and by means of the nut S which is then screwed on to the screwed
part R is secured into its proper position.
The upright B is free to revolve upon the pivot P which is inserted in its lower
extremities.
Figure 7 is a sectional elevation of the upright C showing the pin Q with the
loop or eye T.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
.
1. I claim the making of hurdles fences barriers or gates by means of two
uprights and one longitudinal bar and stretching wires or cords in the space
on both sides of the longitudinal bar bounded by the uprights and longitudinal bar.
2. I claim the placing of wires in certain positions relatively to the cross-pieces

page_text: so that the tension of these acting upon and through the cross pieces upon the
longitudinal bar tends to stiffen it.
3. I claim the combination of hinging 2 or more of any of the hitherto well
known forms of hurdles together and fitting a wheel at any one end that may be
desired.
4. I claim the combination of hinging two or more hurdles made in the special
manner hereinbefore set forth and described with two uprights and one longitudinal
bar.
5. I claim the combination of hinging two or more hurdles together made in the
special manner hereinbefore set forth and described with two uprights and one
longitudinal bar and placing a wheel at any one extremity of the hurdles as may be
desired by or near any one of the uprights.
Dated this 16th day of April 1891.
WM. LLEWELLIN, C.E.,
15, King Square, Bristol, Agent for the Applicant.