Improvements in Metal Picket Fences.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
Improvements in Metal Picket Fences.
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 object of this invention is to produce a metal picket fence which is capable
of being slightly flexed or bent so that in the process of erection it can be
made to conform to inequalities or irregularities of the surface of the ground
or can be set in a curved line. Picket fences made according to this invention
can be produced in sections of comparatively long length and a complete line of
fencing can thus be more easily and quickly erected than the fences as heretofore
made and used.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 represents part of an erected metal picket fence made in accordance with
this invention, and
Figs. 2 to 5 shew details of construction on an enlarged scale.
Fig. 2 is a section of one of the horizontals;
Fig. 3 is a plan shewing the method of connecting the pickets with the
horizontals;
Fig. 4 is a plan shewing one of the intermediate standards in section and the
method of connecting the horizontal thereto, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of an
end standard shewing the method of making joint between the sections of the
fencing.
Similar letters of reference denote similar parts in all the figures.
In the manufacture of my picket fence I make the horizontals A of malleable
iron or other ductile metal and I make the pickets B of a stout rigid metal such as
steel. I prefer to make the horizontals of the section shewn in Fig. 2, and to
make the pickets either of corrugated sheet steel as shewn in Fig. 3, or of angle
steel, but I do not wish to confine myself to any particular shape or section for
the horizontals or the pickets.
The section of fencing shewn in Fig. 1 is made with two horizontals A, a number
of corrugated sheet steel pickets B, two end standards C and three intermediate
standards D. Each standard is connected to an earth plate G and the end
standards are fitted with stays H. The pickets are connected to the horizontals
by means of rivets, bolts and nuts, or by means of the steel clips E which are
passed through slots or holes in the horizontals and the ends knocked down as shewn
in Fig. 3. The horizontals are passed through apertures in the standards C & D
and secured by wedges F as shewn in Figs. 4 & 5. The ends of the sections are
lap-jointed as shewn in Fig. 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
laim is ;-
A picket fence comprising a suitable number of uprights or standards, a
horizontal or horizontals made of ductile metal and secured to said standards, and

page_text: a number of pickets of steel or other rigid metal secured to the horizontal or
horizontals in any suitable manner substantially as described and for the purpose
stated.
Dated this 29th day of October 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.