Improvements relating to the Attachment of Bars, Rods, or Wires to their Supports.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Attachment of Bars, Rods, or Wires
to their Supports.
I, DAVID ROWELL, of 31, Old Queen Street, Westminster in the County
of Middlesex, 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 :-
The attachment of bars, rods or wires to supports has heretofore been effected by
threading the bars, rods or wires through holes in the supports, or by securing them
in clips which are themselves attached to the supports. Both methods are
objectionable the former by reason of the labour involved in the threading and the
inefficient support given to the bars, rods or wires, and the latter on account of the
tendency of the clips to slip upon the supports.
Now the object of this invention is to attach bars, rods or wires to their supports
in such a way as to avoid the objectionable features hereinbefore indicated and at
the same time to provide a method or means of attachment which is economical in
cost, which admits of the easy and rapid adjustment or re-adjustment of the bars,
rods or wires on their supports, and which also immoveably secures the supports in
their vertical position.
In the accompanying drawings which are furnished in illustration of my
invention
Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of part of a standard made of channel iron,
with a wire attached thereto in accordance with this invention;
Fig. 2 is a similar view shewing the standard alone, and
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the clip and wedge detached.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a dropper for wire fencing made of H section iron,
with a wire attached thereto in accordance with this invention;
Fig. 5 is a plan of Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a modified forin of my invention as applied to a
support of T iron; and Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of same.
The same letters of reference where they occur are used to denote the same or
corresponding parts in the several figures.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I proceed as follows. I provide
each support A with a number of longitudinal apertures a arranged one above the
other and at the heights or distances at which the various bars rods or wires are to
be carried. Into each of these apertures I place a clip B, one of which is shewn in
perspective in Fig. 3 and in plan in Fig. 5. This clip B is provided with return
flanges which bear against the rear side of the support A and adjacent to the
edges of the aperture a and prevent it from passing completely through said
aperture. (See Fig. 5.) The front of the clip is cut away so as to form
a recess 63 large enough to receive the bar, rod, or wire C.
The attachment is effected by placing the clip B in position in the aperture a of
the support A; the bar, rod or wire C is then placed in the recess 6 and a wedge D
is then driven in between the inner front edge of the clip B and the front of the
wire C (see Fig. 5) so as to bridge over the open front of the recess 6³
in the clip B. The wire C is therefore jammed between the wedge D and the back
of said recess 62 so that the wire C, the clip B and the support A mutually support
each other.

page_text: In the modification shewn in Figs. 6 & 7 the clip is replaced by screwed
hooks E of such size as to pass completely through the apertures a in the supports.
The attachment in this case is effected by passing the screwed hook over the bar,
rod or wire C, and then screwing up the nut E until the nose E* of the book is
within the aperture a or as much further as is requisite, no tightening wedge being
necessary.
I wish it to be understood that my invention is applicable to supports of any
suitable section and that it is not confined to the particular shape of clip shewn in
Figs. 3 & 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) For attaching bars, rods or wires to their supports the combination of a
support having longitudinal apertures therein with clips fitting said apertures and
having flanges or projections bearing against the rear side of said support and a
recess or groove in the front to receive the wire, and a wedge to fix the wire firmly
in said recess substantially as described and illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5 of the
accompanying drawings.
(2) The modification of my invention substantially as described with reference
to Figs. 6 & 7 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of October 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.