Improvements in Wire Fence Droppers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 30th May 1899 -Accented 2nd Dec.
1800
Improvements in Wire Fence Droppers.
A communication from abroad by JOHN WYNN MANCHEE, of Moree, New South
Wales, Grazier.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of 46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of London,
Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to keyless droppers for wire fences, and consists of a
dropper of the usual V-section type in which the wire slot is formed in a special
manner so as to nip the wire.
The wire slots are curved and the ends hooked or returned towards one another,
but so as not to be directly opposite, in order that when the wires are forced
home in the said slots they will be kinked slightly and nipped therein.
The wire slots are cut through the droppers. They are curved and terminate
in returned ends which are not co-incident in vertical position. The wire corie-
sponding in diameter with the width of the slot is nipped by these irregularly
placed slot ends and the dropper thereby prevented from moving along the wire.
As there would be a tendency to work the droppers out of the vertical position
if all the wire slots were identical it is preferred to adopt an alternating arrange-
ment of high and low slot ends.
The droppers are set on a fence by inserting the wires one at a time each in its
appropriate slot and forcing them home into the hooked ends of said slots in which
they are nipped
Improvements in Wire Fence Droppers.
A communication from abroad by JOHN WYNN MANCHEE, of Moree, New South
Wales, Grazier.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of 46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of London,
Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, 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:-
This invention relates to keyless droppers for wire fences, and consists of a
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page_text: dropper of the usual V-section type in which the wire slot is formed in a special
manner so as to nip the wire.
Referring to the annexed drawing: Fig. 1 is a view of a dropper in position
on a 6-wire fence; Fig. 2 a side view of the dropper; Fig. 3 front and side views
(enlarged) of fragment of diopper and wire in position in same: Fig. 4 section
across dropper; Fig. 5 plan and section of diopper in blank.
The wire slots are curved and the ends hooked or returned towards one another,
but so as not to be directly opposite, in order that when the wires are forced
home in said slots they will be kinked slightly and nipped therein.
In the drawing: A are the wie slots which are cut through the droppers. They
are curved and terminate in returned ends B which are not co-incident in vertical
position. The wire C, corresponding in diameter with the width of the slot A
is nipped by these irregularly placed slot ends and the dropper thereby prevented
from moving along the wire. As there would be a tendency to work the droppers
out of the vertical position if all the wire slots were identical it is preferred to
adopt an alternating arrangement of high and low slot ends as shown in
Figs. 1 and 4.
The droppers are set on a fence by inserting the wires one at a time each in its
appropriate slot and forcing them home into the hooked ends of said slots in
which they are nipped.
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 dropper consisting of a V-section or angle bar through the angle of which
are cut hooked end slots with non-co-incident ends adapted to nip the wires, sub-
stantially as described.
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2. A V-section or angle-bar dropper adapted to be fastened on fence wires by
the engagement of said wires in hooked end slots with non-co-incident ends cut
through the angle of said dropper substantially as described.
3, In a dropper of the kind herein described slot ends formed alternately high
and low, substantially as described
Dated this 30th day of May 1899
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C, Chartered Patent Agent.