IMPROVED BARB WIRE FENCING AND THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 10th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 14th June, 1887.
I, ARTHUR EDMUND GORSE of 71 New Street West Bromwich Staffordshire do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED BARB WIRE FENCING AND
THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME to be as follows:-
I take Coil of Wire, of the gauge required for the Fencing, feed the Wire into a
Machine, by the usual method. The Machine first cuts off lengths or pieces of wire
in a slanting direction, so that each end of the pieces are sharp or pointed. The
Machine then ties the ends of the pieces of wire together, such pieces of wire being of
sufficient length to form the Fence or strand between the Barbs, and to allow of being
tied, leaving a short end at right angles to the Fence or strand to form the point or
Barb, producing a Barb Fencing upon a single strand of wire without any loose pieces
or projections to form Barb.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Barb Wire Fencing and the Method of Manufacturing
the same.
I ARTHUR EDMUND GORSE of 71 New Street West Bromwich in the County of
Stafford Machinist do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object improved barb wire fencing and the method of
manufacturing the same by which I am able to obtain in a single strand of wire
barbs of any lengths and at any intervals of the most substantial kind and in a
very simple and inexpensive manner.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into
practice I have appended hereunto two sheets of drawings upon which are illustrated
examples of the wire strand in the process of manufacture and an example of the
wire attached to ordinary wood fencing posts but it must be understood that I lay
no claim to the posts shown or to any particular kind of post or to the manner of
applying the wire as my invention consists entirely in the new form of the barbed
strand itself.
Figure 1 is a view of the wire run out from the coil and so severed by a suitable
shearing tool in a diagonal direction as to produce two points a¹ and a² on the piece A
and 61 and 62 on the piece B.
Figure 2 shows one end of the piece A and one end of the piece B so bent and
placed together as to show the loose knot before it is drawn tightly together.
Figure 3 shews the two pieces A and B as also a third length Cwith the knots B, A
and C, A drawn tightly up together.
Figure 4 is an illustration of the application of some of the fence wire made
according to my invention applied to the ordinary wood posts D, E and F.
The strand is constructed as follows:-I take a coil of wire of the required gauge
and pass one end into a machine having a shearing cutter or cutters set to the proper
angle to sever the wire so that the ends shall be on the slant as shown at a¹ a² and b² 62
Figure 1. which are thus pointed and suitable for forming barbs when bent into the
required position.
This machine may cut one or both ends at once i.e it may sever one complete piece
such as A Figure 3 at once, thus producing the a¹ barb and the a² barb and this
machine if necessary may be quite separate from the process of tieing the ends into
a barb.
Each piece may then be bent in the same machine by a continuous process
as shown by H at Figure 5 and then threaded together as shewn by Figure 6 the
end of piece K being afterward tied into the position to form the knot as shown
at Figure 2 when sufficient tension is brought upon the strand in opposite directions
as indicated by the arrows M and N to draw the ends into the tight knot as shewn
by Figure 3. Barbs formed in this manner from the strand itself are much firmer
than in the case of a continuous strand with separate pieces twisted around the strand

page_text: or around one of the wires composing it and they can never slip about. It will be
observed that the knot is so tied in the examples shown that the greater the tension
the firmer the knot becomes and I therefore prefer this description of knot but I do
not confine myself to its particular shape or details because two ends of such pieces
may be brought together in a variety of ways either as one two or more strands but
in either case without loose barbs because I consider these objectionable. One
modification easily carried out is seen at Figures 7 and 8 where the bent piece P
and the bent piece R are twisted together as seen complete at Figure 7 that is to
say each wire may be sheared as before described and bent like a staple P or R then
the end of R is threaded from the back into the closed end of P and the end r²
from the front after which the ends and 2 may be bent up as shewn at Figure 7
and a twist på given to P and 3 to R which locks the parts together. In using two
or more wires they may all be tied at once as shown by Figure 2 and the barbs
spread out in all directions.
It will be evident to practical men that there are many ways of manufacturing this
fence wire either by hand or partly by hand or wholly by machinery either in one or
several machines.
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 :-
:-
The improved barb wire fencing made up from short lengths of wire having
sharpened or roughened ends which are tied threaded or twisted into each other to
form one continuous strand substantially as herein set forth.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.