Improvements in and Additions to Metallic Pillars, Posts, and Standards for Various Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 10th July. 1890-Accepted. 23rd Aug.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Metallic Pillars, Posts, and
Standards for Various Purposes.
I HENRY JOHNSON of Trindle Road Dudley in the County of Worcester Mining
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
My invention has reference principally to metallic pillars posts and standards made
from tubes of wrought iron such for example as are used for telegraph poles fences
and the like but my invention may be applied to solid metallic pillars posts and
standards as well as to hollow or tubular ones and made of metals other than iron.
I will describe my invention in connection with a standard for wire fencing.
I make the upright of the said standard of wrought iron tubing of a length and
strength suitable for the particular use to which it is to be applied. I fix the bottom
of the upright in a tubular cast iron socket closed at bottom (excepting as herein after
explained) the upright being fixed in the socket by a key taking into a longitudinal
slot in the interior of the socket being driven between the socket and the tube. The
said socket has preferably a length about six times the diameter of the upright but, I
do, not limit myself to any particular proportions. The said socket has both at top
and bottom a thick flange preferably square. In each angle of each flange a dovetail
or undercut radial groove parallel to the axis of the socket is made. In each of the
said grooves a plate or wing piece is fitted the inner edge of each of the said wing
pieces having a breadth and configuration the counterpart of the grooves in the
angles of the flanges so that when the wing pieces are engaged in the grooves by a
sliding motion they take a radial position each wing piece being at right angles with
the wing pieces on each side of it. The base of the standard is formed of a circular
or square plate which is connected to the bottom of the socket by a screw pin and screw
nut the screw pin being passed through central holes in the bottom of the socket and
base plate and the parts held together by screwing home the screw nut on the screw
pin.
In order where necessary or desirable to give additional lateral support to the
standard I employ two sets of the wing pieces described one set at the base as hereinbefore
described and the other set at such a height as to be but a short distance underground
when the standard is fixed. The upper socket has no bottom but can be passed by a
sliding motion to the precise height on the tubular standard at which it is required to
be fixed. The slots in the lower thick flange of the upper socket do not extend from
the upper to the lower face of the flange but stop short say about half way. The wing
pieces when inserted in the flanges are thus prevented from falling out of the slots.
When double standards that is two standards near together are employed I make
the two sockets of the double standard in one casting the said casting consisting of two
sockets of the kind described connected by a web. I fix the double socket on one base
plate and attach two wing pieces to each socket..
For giving still further additional lateral support to the single or double standard
where required I employ lateral oblique stays constructed as follows :-
I fix at the upper part of the double standard a twin clip composed of two single
clips connected by a divided connecting piece. The said twin clip is fixed on the
double standard by sliding it to the required place on the standard and passing a screw
bolt through a bolt hole in the divided connecting piece. By means of a screw nut on
the screw pin the parts of the divided connecting piece can be brought nearer togetlier
and the clip compressed and fixed on the standard. The twin clips have each an
oblique socket cast on one side for receiving the oblique stays. These oblique stays
have at their bottom end sockets and a base plate the construction of which resembles
generally the construction of the sockets and base plate hereinbefore described.

page_text: For straining the wires and wire strands and connecting their ends to the straining
pillar I make a cross hole in the divided connecting piece joining the twin clips. A
screw pin with a ring at its head is passed through this hole and the wire or stand to
be tightened being connected to the head of the pin a screw nut is screwed on the pin
and the said pin thereby drawn up and the wire or strand tightened.
Or the clips at the top of the straining pillar may have lugs cast on them for
receiving the ordinary winder ratchet wheel and pawl.
For connecting the wires or strands to single standards other than the end or
straining standards I employ a split clip through the ears of which a screw is passed
for drawing them together and fixing the clip to the standard. I prefer to employ
for the purpose of connecting the wire to the clip coupling boxes of the kind for which
Letters Patent were granted to me dated 26th July 1888 No. 10841 the said coupling
boxes being carried by one of the ears of the clip. The same screw pin which
tightens the clip also deflects the wire and fixes the separable portion of the coupling
box.
Where great strength is required as for example in telegraph posts the base plate
may have a series of radial slots made in it of a size and shape suitable for the
reception of the bottoms of the wing pieces and the sockets and tubular uprights may
be connected by cross rivets or screws in addition to the method of connection
described.
Metallic pillars posts and standards and the additions thereto constituting my
invention are readily put together and taken to pieces by unskilled labourers and
when taken to pieces may be packed in packing cases of convenient size for transit.
The application of my invention to purposes other than fencing differs in no essential
respect from its application to fencing as hereinbefore described.
My invention is applicable among other purposes to pillars for telegraph and
telephone wires and posts for signal wires.
noted thin 19th dog of Santamber 1800
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Additions to Metallic Pillars, Posts, and
Standards for Various Purposes.
I HENRY JOHNSON of Trindle Road Dudley in the County of Worcester Mining
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention has reference principally to metallic pillars posts and standards made
from tubes of wrought iron such for example as are used for telegraph poles fences
and the like; but my invention may be applied to solid metallic pillars posts and
standards as well as to hollow or tubular ones and made of metals other than iron.
I will describe my invention in connection with a standard for wire fencing.
I make the upright of the said standard of wrought iron tubing of a length and
strength suitable for the particular use to which it is to be applied. I fix the
bottom of the upright in a tubular cast iron socket closed at bottom (excepting
as hereinafter described) the upright being fixed in the socket by a key taking
into a longitudinal slot in the interior of the socket being driven between the
socket and the tube. The said socket has preferably a length about six times the
diameter of the upright; but I do not limit myself to any particular proportions.
The said socket has both at top and bottom a thick flange preferably square. In
each angle of each flange a dovetail or undercut radial groove parallel to the axis
of the socket is made. In each of the said grooves a plate or wing piece is
fitted the inner edge of each of the said wing pieces having a breadth and con-
figuration the counterpart of the grooves in the angles of the flanges so that when
the wing pieces are engaged in the grooves by a sliding motion they take a

page_text: radial position each wing piece being at right angles with the wing pieces on
each side of it. The base of the standard is formed of a circular or square plate
which is connected to the bottom of the socket by a screw pin and screw nut
the screw pin being passed through central holes in the hottom of the socket and
base plate and the parts held together by screwing home the screw nut on the
screw pin.
In order where necessary or desirable to give additional lateral support to the
standard I employ two sets of the wing pieces described one set at the base as herein-
before described and the other set at such a height as to be but a short distance under-
ground when the standard is fixed. The upper socket has no bottom but can be
passed by a sliding motion to the precise height on the tubular standard at which it is
required to be fixed. The slots in the lower thick flange of the upper socket do not
extend from the upper to the lower face of the flange but stop. short say about half
way. The wing pieces when inserted in the flanges are thus prevented from falling.
out of the slots.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in vertical section and Figure 2
in plan partly in horizontal section the base part of a standard having two sockets and
two sets of wing pieces constructed according to my invention and as herein before
described for securely fixing the standard to the ground for wire fencing. The
section of the lower socket in Figure 1 is taken on the dotted line a Figure 2 and the
section of the upper socket in Figure 1 is taken on the dotted line Figure 2. cis
the standard consisting of a wrought iron tube the bottom of which is fixed in the
tubular cast iron socket d closed at bottom the said standard c being fixed in the
socket by a key at e; or the standard e may be secured to the socket d by pinning or
rivetting the two parts together. The base of the standard is formed of the circular
(or square) plate bolted at g to the socket d in the manner represented in Figure 1
thereby forming a stable anchorage for the tubular standard. d d are the top and
bottom thickened pieces or flanges of the socket d in which flanges the radial
wing pieces h h are fitted endwise the inner ends of each wing piece having a half
dovetail upon it which takes into a correspondingly shaped recess or groove in the said
flanges d² d² as represented in the plan Figure 2 where it will be seen that each wing
piece is at right angles with the wing pieces on each side of it; i is the upper cast
iron socket and k the radial wing pieces of the same fastened thereto by their half
dovetail ends engaging with grooves in the socket as described with respect to the
lower socket d. By means of the said upper socket i and its wing pieces k additional
lateral support is given to the standard the said upper socket being passed by a sliding
motion onto the standard and fixed at the required height thereon by a key and
keyway or by bolting or rivetting the two parts together as described with respect to
the lower socket d..
When double standards that is two standards near together are employed I make
the two sockets of the double standard in one casting the said casting consisting of
two sockets of the kind described connected by a web. I fix the double socket on
one base plate and attach two wing pieces to each socket.
For giving still further additional lateral support to the single or double standard
where required I employ lateral oblique stays constructed as follows.
I fix at the upper part of the double standard a twin clip composed of two single
clips connected by a divided connected piece. The said twin clip is fixed on. the
louble standard by sliding it to the required place on the standard and passing a
screw bolt through a bolt hole in the divided connecting piece. By means of a
crew nut on the screw pin the parts of the divided connecting piece can be brought
earer together and the clip compressed and fixed on the standard. The twin clips
ave each an oblique socket cast on one side for receiving the oblique stays. These
blique stays have at. their bottom end sockets and a base plate the construction of
which resembles generally the construction of the sockets and base plate hereinbefore
escribed. For straining the wires and wire strands and connecting their ends to the
training pillar I make a cross hole in the divided connecting piece joining the twin.

page_text: clips. A screw pin with a ring at its head is passed through this hole and the wire
or strand to be tightened being connected to the head of the pin a screw nut is
screwed on the pin and the said pin thereby drawn up and the wire or strand
tightened.
Or the clips for each wire on the straining pillar may have lugs cast on them for
receiving the ordinary winder ratchet wheel and pawl.
This part of my invention is represented in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Figure 3
represents in end elevation; Figure 4 in plan and Figure 5 in side elevation the
lower socket and its wing pieces for a double standard; Figures 6 and 7 represent
elevations taken at right angles to one another and Figure 8 represents in plan the
twin clip of the double standard the said standard being used as the straining pillar
and is provided with the straining appliances hereinafter described; Figure 9
represents elevations taken at right angles to one another and a plan of the socket of
the oblique stay of the double standard Figures 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The double tubular standard is marked il and the double cast iron base socket into
which the bottoms of the double standard are fitted is marked m m the two sockets
being connected together by the web m². The double socket m m is bolted to the
single base plate m³ by the screw bolts and nuts at 11. Each socket has two wing
pieces connected to it in the manner herein before described with respect to the
single socket. The twin clip fixed to the standards above the ground is
marked n n the twin clip being composed of two clips connected by the divided
connecting piece n². By sliding the twin clip n n on the double standard to the
required position and drawing together the divided connecting piece n² by the screw
pin and nut at n³ the clips are compressed on and fixed to the double standard ! 1.
When the standard is used as the straining pillar for the wire the twin clip n n bas
lugs n n at its back for receiving the ordinary winder n³ ratchet wheel n° and
pawl n'. The twin clips have each a socket p p on one side for receiving the oblique
tubular stays p² p² the bottoms of which are fitted in and fastened to the sockets på p³
carried by the base plate pt. The stay base sockets p³ p³ are joined together by the
web best seen in the plain view Figure 9 and they are connected to the base plate p
by the screw bolts and nuts at p. "The stay base sockets may be provided with wing
pieces as represented with respect to the base sockets of the double standard. The
oblique stay arrangement represented in Figure 9 may be applied to single standards.
In this case a single socket and its appliances are used.
For connecting the wires or strands to single standards other than the end or
straining standards I employ a split clip through the ears of which a screw is passed
for drawing them together and fixing the clip to the standard. I prefer to employ
for the purpose of connecting the wire to the clip coupling boxes of the kinds for
which Letters Patent were granted to me dated 26th July 1888 No. 10841 and for
which Letters Patent are being applied for dated 20th September 1889 No. 14858 the
said coupling boxes being carried by one of the ears of the clip. The same screw pin
which tightens the clip also deflects the wire and fixes the separable portion of the
coupling box.
This part of my invention is illustrated in elevations taken at right angles to one
another in Figure 10 and plan in Figure 11 where the single standard is marked q
and its cap is marked g² the said cap being fixed in the top of the tube by expanding
the end of the tube by heating it and then inserting the stalk of the cap q² in the
said heated end. By the cooling of the tube it contracts upon and fixes the cap in its
place is the split clip through the ears 23 of which the screw bolt for fixing
the clip to the standard at the required height is passed: s is the coupling box for
securing the wire s² to the standard the said box s being connected to or made in
one piece with the broad ear of the clip and the lid or cover of the said coupling
box is fixed in its place by the fixing screw pin which tightens the clip on the
standard. The screw pin serves to fix the lid of the coupling box to the clip and
also to deflect the wire s2 to fix it to the coupling box as well as to tighten the cli
on the standard.

page_text: For connecting signal wires to posts I employ the arrangement represented in
Figure 12 that is the bolt 7 of the split clip r fixed on the post q is made so long as
to constitute an axis for the rollers u u over which the signal wires pass.
Although I have represented my improvements in connection with tubular
standards yet I wish it to be understood that they may also be used in connection
with solid metallic pillars posts and standards. Where great strength is required as
for example in telegraph posts the base plate may have a series of radial slots made
in it of a size and shape suitable for the reception of the bottoms of the wing pieces
and the sockets and tubular upright may be connected by cross rivets or screws in
addition to the method of connection described and represented.
Metallic pillars posts and standards and the additions thereto constituting my
invention are readily put together and taken to pieces by unskilled labourers and
when taken to pieces may be packed in packing cases of convenient size for
transit.
The application of my invention to purposes other than fencing differs in no
essential respect from its application to fencing as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
My invention is applicable among other purposes to pillars for telegraph and
telephone wires and posts for signal wires.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in and additions to metallic pillars posts and
standards for various purposes
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First Fixing metallic pillars posts and standards to the ground by adapting and
securing to the lower part of the pillar post or standard one or more sockets and the
appliances connected therewith the said sockets and their appliances being constructed
and combined and used substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly-Fixing double metallic pillars posts and standards to the ground by the
double socket arrangement hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures. 3, 4
and 5 of the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly-The construction and arrangement of parts hereinbefore described and
illustrated with respect to Figure 9 of the accompanying Drawing for fixing the
double and single oblique stays of metallic pillars posts and standards to the
ground
Fourthly-The construction of the twin clip to be applied to double pillars posts
and standards for straining the wires of wire fencing and connecting them to the said
pillars posts and standards and for other like purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 6, 7 and 8 of the accompanying Drawing.
Fifthly-The combination with a split clip to be applied to metallic pillars posts
and standards of a coupling box for connecting the wire to the pillar post or
standard the screw pin which tightens the clip on the pillar post or standard also
deflecting or securing the wire and fixing the separable part of the coupling box as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 11 of the accompanying Drawing
also the modification described and illustrated in Figure 12 of the accompanying
Drawing for connecting signal and other wires to metallic pillars posts and
standards.
Dated the 10th da..
Taal 1900
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.