Improved Means and Tools or Appliances for Attaching Wire Netting to Fencing or other Objects.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
DUMI DEI STOLE TUATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ARTHUR BARCLAY BENNETT, of Hindley Street,
Adelaide, South Australia, Ironmonger.]
Improved Means and Tools or Appliances for Attaching Wire
Netting to Fencing or other Objects.
I, WILLIAM HENRY EYRES, of 8 Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, Mer-
chant, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, .
and to the letters and Figures marked thereon that is to say -
This invention relates firstly, to improved means of attaching wire netting to
fencing or other objects, and secondly, to improved tools or appliances for carrying
the said improved means into effect.
Heretofore it has been customary to attach wire netting to fencing or other objects
either by means of short pieces of wire passed through the meshes of the netting and
wound round the part of the fence or other object to which the netting is to be
attached, when twisting the ends of the wire together, or by passing a long piece of
wire through a mesh of the netting, then winding it round the object to which the
netting is to be attached, then through the next mesh and so on, so as to sew.it, as it
were, to the fence or other object.
According to the present invention the attachment of the netting is effected by
means of wire rings as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings hereto annexed.
These rings are each made, as shown to a larger scale in Figure 2, of a piece of wire
bent into a circle so that the two ends overlap each other sidewise, and in order to
facilitate their use in practice they are first prepared to the shape of the lotter Cas
shown in Figure 3 in which form they are supplied to the user. In order to
apply these C shaped pieces to their intended purpose and for that purpose to
bend them into the form of a ring as shown in Figure 2 the tool or appliance
shown in Figures 4 and 5 is employed. This tool or appliance consists of a kind
of pincers with curved jaws. When it is required to place a ring in position, one
of the C shaped pieces, Figure 3, is placed between the open jaws of the pincers
as shown in Figure 4 and, one of the said jaws, with one of the hooked ends of the
C shaped piece of wire contained therein, is passed through the mesh in the netting
and into position so as to partially surround the part of the fence or other object to
which the netting is to be attached. The nippers are then closed by means of their
handles and the C shaped piece of wire contained in their jaws is thereby bent
round into the ring form as shown in Figure 2. The pincers are then removed
and the ring remains engaged in the mesh of the netting and surrounding the part
to which the netting is to be attached, thus forming a secure fastening of the latter
to the former.
The interior surfaces of the jaws of the pincers are grooved eccentrically as shown
at a al in Figure 5, which is an end view of Figure 4 so as to guide the hooked
ends of the shaped piece into position to pass one to the side of the other to form
the overlap sidewise shown in Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First-The improved means of attaching wire netting to fencing or other objects;
which consists in the use of wire rings formed of bent wires the ends of which are
passed through the meshes of the netting and round the object to which the said
netting is to be attached and are then bent together with their ends overlapping

page_text: sidewise, as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the
drawings hereto annexed.
Second-The improved tool or appliance for hending the C shaped pieces of wire,
after they have been inserted through the meshes of the netting and round the object
to which the said netting is to be attached, into the ring form consisting of the pincers
having jaws adapted to receive and hold the said C shaped pieces of wire and having
eccentric grooves a a¹ formed therein for the purpose of guiding the ends of said
C shaped pieces one to the side of the other when the said C shaped piece is bent
into the ring form, as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of
the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1889.
W. H. EYRES.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.