Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards; Columns, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards;
Columns, and the like.
I, JOHN DICK of 218 Saracen Street, Possil Park, in the City of Glasgow
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to earth or base plates and whilst applicable as a means of
affording increased rigidity to standards or columns generally it is especially
applicable and intended to be used in conjunction with standards of rectangular
section for wire, bar and similar fences.
In accordance with the invention the earth or base plate is made in two parts
which are interlocked one upon the other the standard or column being held
between by wedging or equivalent means. Under one modification the inner end
of cach section is U-shaped so as to embrace the edges of the standard or column
and at a point intermediate between the said edges an O, G curve, bevel or bend is
made on each section under or within which the end of the other section lies. Each
plate has a dished or concave part to embrace the base of the U shaped end of its
neighbour and from the said part the section extends in a straight line to its
other extremity or in the depth of the section a cut may be made inwards from
the unbent end and the upper and lower parts of the plate flared in opposite
directions.
Under a modification each section of the earth or base plate may have at its
central part a channel or dished portion corresponding in cross section to one half
or thereby of the cross section of the standard or column to be supported. On each
side of this channel the two sections of the base plate have slots or cuts made in
them parallel to the channel, those of one section extending upwards from the lower
and those of the other section downwards from the upper edge the plate being
completed by passing the slotted part of one plate within that of its neighbour, and
if desired by bolting them together.
Dated this. 27th day of February 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Earth or Base Plates for Fencing Standards,
Columns, and the like.
I, JOHN DICK of 218 Saracen Street, Possil Park in the City of Glasgow,
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 :-
This invention relates to earth or base plates and whilst applicable as a means of
affording increased rigidity to standards or columns generally it is especially
applicable and intended to be used in conjunction with standards of rectangular
section for wire, bar and similar fences.
In accordance with the invention the earth or base plate is made in two parts
which are interlocked one upon the other the standard or column being held
between by wedging or equivalent means. Under one modification as illustrated
on the accompanying drawings Figure 1 being an elevation and Figure 2 a plan
the inner end of each section of the earth plate is U-shaped as shewn at a so as
to embrace the edges of the standard or column 6 and at a point intermediate
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page_text: between the said edges an O G curve bevel or bend c is made on each section under
or within which the end of the other section lies. Each plate has a dished or
concave part d to embrace the base of the U-shaped end a of its neighbour and
from the said part the section extends in a straight line to its outer extremity or in
the depth of the section a horizontal cut may be made inwards from the unbent end
to or near the interlocking part and the upper and lower parts of the plate flared in
opposite directions as shewn in dotted lines at e. Wedges fare or may be driven
down between the U-shaped ends of the plates and the standard so as to give
increased rigidity to the structure.
Under a modification represented by Figures 3 and 4 each section of the earth
or base plate may have at its central part a channel or dished portion g
corresponding in cross section to one. half or thereby of the cross section of the
standard or column to be supported. On each side of this channel g the two
sections of the base plate have slots or cuts made in them parallel to the
channel, those of one section extending upwards from the lower and those of the
other section downwards from the upper edge to the centre of the plate, the earth
plate being completed by passing the slotted part of one section within that of its
neighbour and if desired by bolting them together.
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 1
claim is :-
:-
1. An earth plate for fencing standards columns and the like constructed and
arranged substantially as herein before described with reference to Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings.
2. An earth plate for fencing standards columns and the like constructed and
arranged substantially as herein before described with reference to Figures 3 and 4
of the drawings annexed.
1000
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent 'Street, Glasgow, Agents.