Improvements in Metallio Fences.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, DÉSIRÉ THEOPHILE VALLÉE, of le Puiset, near Janville-au-Sel, Department of
Eure and Loir, France, Constructor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention is intended to substitute in the fences of fields, gateways and
barriers for races, gardens and parks the trellis-grating, rustic-railing, posts and
palings whatever and for enclosures of railways, the solid iron by thinned iron or
iron with hollow section in U, T and L or flat, paired and joined together by
crosspieces.
The use of this thinned iron reduces the weight to about the half.
The accomplishing of the work for joining the posts and crossbars is very easy,
having but few pieces to forge and having only the holes to stave with a punch
instead of having to bore them with a drill like with the solid square iron.
This way of joining leaves between the crosspieces and the two upright parts of
the supports a longitudinal opeu groove, which allows the wires to pass hori-
zontally. This groove besides allowing the distance between the wires which pass
through the supports to be changed at will and of easily effecting the position,
substitution, suppression or multiplication, oither for vine-arbours, espaliers, or
any enclosure or fence whatever.
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L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Metallio Fences.
I, DESIRE THEOPHILE VALLÉE, of le l'uiset, near Janville-au-Sel, Department of
Eure and Loir, France, Constructor, 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 object of the present invention is to substitute the massive irou-work used
for fencing fields, for the construction of gates and railings for yards, gardens
and parks, rustic-railing, railway fences and the like, by angle irons with hollow
section in UT or L, doubled and fitted together in such a way as to leave an
open longitudinal groove between the assembling cross-bars and between the two
upright parts of the supports to allow the passage of the feucing wires horizontally.
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page_text: Fig. 1 of the annexed drawing shows a horizontal ɛection of the uprights; the
two uprights A and B placed at the extremities show the mode of assembling tho
fencing-wires D with these uprights, and the middle upright C shows the passage
of the wires between the two iron parts forming the upright.
Fig. 2 gives an example of a complete fence, running from any construction
whatever to a boundary-wall situated at a certain distance.
The open groove between the two iron parts forwing the uprights allow the
varying, ad libitum, of the space between the wires which pass through the
supports and to easily operate their laying, substitution, suppression or multi-
plication. The extremities of the fencing wires may be fixed in any usual way
and provided with any well known tightening device.
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:-
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1) The use of uprights and cross-bars in angle iron (with hollow section)
for the trellis-work, gates and railings, court-yards, gardens and parks, field and
railway-fences; doubled and arranged in such a way that the two parts of cach
upright or support allow the passage of the fencing-wires into the open groove
which is left between them, to allow of their substitution, suppression or multi-
plication at pleasure and to facilitate the fixing of the wires to the uprights
which are at the extremities.
2) An improved metallic fence substantially as described and shown.
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L. DUVINAGE,
Patent Agent, 8, Rue des Princes, Brussels, Belguim.